Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 3

Manufacturer:   Victrix

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

just a short post about the actual eftorts according my current project. It took me a while to paint up these two guys due to the fact that I am not able to sit more than one or two hours at the moment. This is caused by the operation I had in June.

The two guys will represent two different units of velites with six miniatures each. There will be a unit with red tunics and white shields and another one with white tunics and red shields.

I like to do this pattern throughout the complete army. This has the advantage that this enables me to use the red units and white units as opposing armies playing Roman CivilWars as long as the planned army of Hannibal is not ready.

So here are the two test figures. They are not painted as clean as I usually do. Having in mind that there are about 120 figures waiting to be painted (and minimum twice the number of figures for the Carthaginians) I will have to do some easier methods for a faster paintjob. Therefore I use contrast colors for the flesh parts and the tunics with only a little bit of highlighting. But also usnig this method will make this project last very long.

Cheers

Mike

Eagle Rampant - Building a Republican Roman Army - WIP - Part 2

Manufacturer:   Victriix Limited

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

within one of my last posts I showed the start of a new project - EagleRampant - a variant of the rules of LionRampant. The content was assembling the Republican Roman Cavalry for the PunicWars.

This time the post is about the Republican Roman Infantry with its Velites, Princeps, Hastati and Triarii.

The infantry was built out of 2 different boxes from Victrix and contains a total of 120 men split into three units of Velites (36 men in total), three units of Princeps (also 36 men in total), two units of better equipped Hastati (24 men in total), two units of elite Triarii (12 men in total) and 6 signifers and 6 officers.

That´s a lot of figures and normaly you do not need this much figures for building an army for EagleRampant (or LionRampant). But I could also split this army into two parts to play times of Roman civil wars. The assembling was very time consuming, cleaning up the mouldlines and glueing all the parts together. I finally got it today. But that was only the assembling.

The next job to do will be to prepare the bases and priming the total army. Not to forget to paint all these guys, knowing that there are also Carthaginians, Celts, Iberians, Samnites and Numidians waiting for the same process. I guess that I will have to become older than 85 years to finish this project. :)

I have already painted up one single cavalryman for testing the flesh tones. I used contrast paints for the flesh and I have put some highlights on it. It is no masterpiece, but in my opinion this came out quite good. Thinking about the enormous number of figures of this project I will have to use easy and fast painting methods. 

So keep your fingers crossed for me and let´s hope that the motivation on this project will last for a long time to get it done.

Cheers

Mike

An overview on the total Republican Roman Army.

Velites with helmets.

My favorite Velites with wolveskins.

Unarmoured Velites.

First unit of Princeps.

Second unit of Princeps.

The third unit of Princeps.

The first unit of Hastati...

...and the second one.

Two units of Triarii (6 men each) - The signifer and officer are just for show.

 I don´t know why Victrix has put 16 men in total into the box of the Roman Cavalry.
Normally for EagleRampnant six men per unit are enough. The first unit of Cavalry.

The second unit of Cavalry with the single painted test figure.

A close up of the test figure.

I would be happy if the whole cavalry is going to look like this figure.

The three packs from Victrix the army was built of. 136 men in total.

I will have to order more shield transfers as these few packs won´t be 
enough to fix them onto 136 shields.

Eagle Rampant - A variant of LionRampant placed in the times of the PunicWars

Manufacturer:   Victrix Unlimited 

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

within our group we have some guys who like LionRampant (2nd edition) very much. We had quite a lot games now and anytime had a great time using these rules. 

Normally these ruleset is made for medieval skirmish games. But I have found a very interesting variant on Facebook to be able to use the rules also for the PunicWars. It is called „EagleRampant“ and sounds good to me. If you are interested just follow this link.

EagleRampant

I am very interested into the 2nd Punic War and have a lot of Victrix-packs covering this topic. Only thing is to assemble all the miniatures not to mention having to paint them.

I am going to leave hospital in a bit more than one week. So my bloke Franz brought me at least three boxes for assembling last week. The first box I started with are the Roman Republican Cavalry. 

Here they are, ready for getting their bases and for priming. Next to be done is Iberian Cavalry. 

Cheers

Mike 

Muskets&Tomahawks - Supplement "Shakos&Bayonets" - Tyrolean Rebellion

Manufacturers:   PianoWargames, Victrix, Chicken´sTabletopCrafting    

Scale:   28mm

Hi,

it is still a long way to get my forces ready for my Tyrolean Rebellion project that we would like to game after the ruleset of "Muskets&Tomahawks" using the supplement "Shakos&Bayonets".

There are some more figures on the workbench that have to be varnished and also the basing needs some more "tuning" with tufts and things like that.

And of course - some more figures still have to be painted, especially more Tyroleans.

Until then the already finished figures will be kept in a small diorama within my IKEA-Billy-shelf for some motivation to keep on the project.

The figures on the pictures are from different manufacturers. The Bavarians are Victrix while the Tyroleans are from PianoWargames. The two buildings are from "Chicken´sTabletopCrafting".

If you like to get further information about the Tyrolean Rebellion and also about Andreas Hofer, who led the Rebellion, just have a look at the following links to a very good docu on YouTube. Unfortunately it is only in German. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3imffLdGM

The second link shows the storming of Innsbruck taken from the movie "Andreas Hofer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FX0d52RMuM&t=47s

If you like to have a look at the complete movie (also only in German) follow the next link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsc-0wTXRR0

But I also found a shorter documentation concerning the Tyrolean Rebellion in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j140bKSCdms

This rebellion is not very well known but in my opinion it would be very nice to play some games dealing with this topic.

Cheers

Mike

Bavarian Grenadiers and Light Infantry from Victrix painted by a friend.

The Tyroleans from PianoWargames have been painted by me.

The Tyrolean Rebellion - Just a fun arrangement of figures

Manufacturers:

Tyroleans - Piano Wargames (https://pianowargames.de)

Bavarians - Victrix (https://www.victrixlimited.com)

Building - Chicken´sTabletopCrafting (https://chickens-tabletop-crafting.de/)

Scale:   28mm

Hello, dear followers of my blog !

Last week I had been looking for some terrain pieces for my wargaming collection, especially for our project on the Tyrolean Rebellion where I will need some more rocks to represent the area of the alps. My comrads and me plan to play several games of the supplement of "Muskets&Tomahawks" called "Shakos&Bayonets".

A good opportunity to find excellent rocks is to look at some shops offering aquaristic accesories. And I found some very good suitable pieces for good prices. Some of them are still on their way but the one I ordered from Amazon has already been delivered.

After having opened the parcel it was clear that I will have to check the size of the rock compared to my figures. And so the next hour was used to arrange a little landscape with rocks, paths, trees, fields and a building. It has been real fun and a perfect balance to my working day. As always.

Just a well-intentioned advice: if you ever had a hard day, try to compensate it by just arranging your figures mixed with some terrain. It works. You surely will feel better. :)

Cheers 

Mike

An overview on the little landscape measuring 60x120cm.

Bavarian Infantry is approaching through a mountain pass to arrest the leader of the Tyrolean Rebels.
Andreas Hofer

Forward boys !

The figures representing the Bavarians are Victrix.

The Tyrolean "village". I need more of these houses from Chicken´sTabletopCrafting.

Andreas Hofer (right) awaiting the Bavarians. Figures are resin from the wonderful range of
PianoWargames. Lucas Luber does fantastic work on them

Seems to be a very long way.

A piece of terrain that must not be missing in the alps
A holy cross.

The actual reason for this arrangement of figures ...

... the rock from the aquaristic shop on Amazon.