Hi All,
Time to start cranking out some points as I return to work on Monday morning [sob!]. Once that happens painting time will be much curtailed so I needed to make a decent dent in the prepped mini pile beforehand.
This is the start of an army for both SAGA: Age of Hannibal and To the Strongest! These two (in progress) consular legions will eventually be joined by at least one, probably two, allied Italian legions. These fine fellows are Victrix plastics and are based singly for Age of Hannibal, however will be supplied with movement trays for To the Strongest! in future to preserve my sanity. The Allied legions will be multi-based only as I won't need them for Age of Hannibal.
Each consular legion will ultimately have the typical organisation of 1 x triarii, 2 x hastati and 2 x principes, plus an allocation of velites. The red legion is currently missing only the principes, whilst the yellow and missing both the principes and the velites. I'm waiting on more miniatures to arrive (the ones in pectoral armour) to build the missing blocks for these two legions. Finally, there will also be some equites romani and equites latini to and maybe a ballistae round things out.
The eagle eyed amongst you will notice 72 miniatures, however 12 of the velites were painted prior to the Challenge starting as a test. That means in total this submission is 60 miniatures for a tidy 300 points.
Hope you like them!
Cheers,
Millsy
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Wow! What a terrific paint bomb Millsy! Such nice, clean brushwork. Those vibrant shields just shout out, 'Look, we're Romans, just come try and stomp on us with your big elephants, you nasty Carthaginians!' Well, that's what they shout in my mind anyway.
I look forward to seeing this legion grow with your coming reinforcements, Millsy! Happy belated birthday and I hope you have an easy first-day back at work.
- Curt
Great paint-bomb, Millsy! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely clean painting, very effective as units. I have a real soft spot for these troops after spending way too long playing Rome:Total War and having each of the units shout their names when selected.
ReplyDeleteVery very nice Millsy! Love the yellow shields.
ReplyDeleteFantastic, but get those shields painted😁
ReplyDeleteLOL. They are definitely painted mate. That yellow took five coats!
DeleteThese paint bombs continue to astound me! Amazing 🙂
ReplyDeleteThey look terrific! Hope you have a nice back-to-work day, it should be after painting these beauties.
ReplyDeleteI do like the look of these Millsy, proper old school ancients. Get yourself an elephant gun, er ballista
ReplyDeleteWonderful looking group- such clean, crisp painting.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on these! I've got the same in the works for the Challenge and expect to have the first batch ready to post in a few weeks. A tough act to follow.
ReplyDeleteFYI I painted the mail backwards for want of a better term. Normally I would paint the metal and then the edging but in this case I could it easier to do it the other way round. I wasn't worried about overspill on the edging which made that a lot quicker.
DeleteCool looking Romans Millsy!
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Lovely - really crisp and really standout
ReplyDeleteLovely work
ReplyDeleteHoly crap Millsy, what a paint bomb! These look fantastic.
ReplyDeleteBOMB 💣
ReplyDeleteRegards KenR
Great looking bunch
ReplyDeleteGreat looking Roman points bomb, love the yellow!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
great stuff Millsy, I do like republicans!
ReplyDeletecheers
matt
Very nice paint-bomb!
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