Republican Romans

Figures:  Xyston

Scale:  15mm

Here are my first troops for my republican army. These figures haven´t been painted by myself. They have been painted by Krisztian Takacs, a hungarian painter. I got his address from my friend Uwe who´s collecting 1/72 historical figures and who has already sent quite a lot of miniatures for painting to Krisztian. You  can follow Uwe´s blog on my bloglist (history in 1/72).

To be honest, I couldn´t manage to paint my figures in such a short time in such a quality. Many Thanks to Krisztian. The figures shown have been a test to see how the units are going to look like. They look great and I like his painting style very much. 

The only thing I had to do was to base the figures though Krisztian also offered me to do this for me. I chose to base the figures suitable for Armati and Impetus.

As I got my rulebook for Impetus with all its 4 extra books this week I´m going to check next, how many figures I´ll need to complete my Republican Roman Army. Then I´ll send these minis to Krisztian for painting them.

As I have enough to do with painting my 28mm-minis I have chosen to get my 15mm-minis painted.

Cheers

Mike

Rome - Roman triarius during the punic wars

Rome: Roman triarius during the punic wars

Figure: Xyston

Scale: 15mm

So I just did it again.

Other projects are still waiting to be finished and I can´t wait to start a new one. An old matter that surely everybody knows.

Today has been the last day of my holidays. The holiday started with my birthday and I got some very good books from my wife. One of these books is "Hail Caesar". It´s great and looks fantastic.

I also got "some" Xyston-Romans, too. I guess they are about 70 figures.

But I had no time to paint them during the holidays because the day after my birthday we started a trip to Sardinia for one week. Inspired by the history of this island, the figures and the new book I wasn´t able to keen on my other projects. I just had to paint at least one of these superb miniatures.

This panit-job was done today and this is one of my first painted 15mm-figures ever (I´ve only painted two prussians of the SYW and one macedonian Hoplite in this scale before).

The plan is to get an army for Armati so that I can send the Romans against the army of Carthago that has been built up by one of my friends. As you all know - Carthago lost all wars against Rome in the end (I´m sorry for that, ACW-Lover, but this will happen again).

But I´ll try to mix the paint-job with my projects left. Whenever I´m bored by painting the same uniform (maybe after 5-6 figures) I´ll work on the other project for a while.

Das alte Rom - Verschiedene Römische Infanterie

Rom - Verschiedene römische Infanterie

Hersteller:   diverse

Maßstab:  28mm

Just another few figures about the aera of the Roman Empire.

I´ve painted them about one year ago.

The shields are made with decals.

What I´m a little bit proud of are the wolfskins of the two signifers.

The stones in the background are part of a battelfield that is just in production.

Roman tribunes.