From DallasE - 28mm Ancient Germans! (Overdue and Returns - 110 points)

Hello again Challengers! For my second Challenge entry I'm submitting more progress on my new Early Imperial Romans/Ancient Germans project. How does this make it into "Overdue and Returns" if it's a new project? Well, because these particular models have been sitting unpainted in a Plano case for longer than I can remember! Maybe 10 years...? They are Wargames Foundry Germans of course... but there's more to the story...  

When I first moved to Winnipeg in 1999 and began tabletop historical wargaming in earnest, I was an avid user of websites like Bartertown and TMP. Eager to get into the Imperial Roman period, I spotted a deal on two painted armies offered by a seller - Early Imperial Romans and Ancient Germans. Of course, being the Internet of the '90s, pictures of stuff for sale were hard to come by, so I asked the seller who had made the figures. "Foundry" was the answer so I pulled the trigger and bought the lot. What arrived, though, was decidedly not made by Foundry... maybe "a" foundry, but definitely not Wargames Foundry. So I tuned up the paint the best I could with washes and highlights, we had a game or two of WAB with them, and I moved them on. But I always wanted to have nice armies of Romans and ancient Germans in 28mm.  

Fast forward 25 years or so and here we are! As I said these Germans were obtained in a trade I think and have been sitting in a box for 10 years or more. So it was time to get them painted and get another new insane project further down the road to completion (!)

Unfortunately my models didn't have shields, but these were purchased from Warlord Games along with decals, which (amazingly) fit the metal shields quite well!

(The two models at right were painted pre-Challenge as a test of my "flesh method" so aren't counted in the total). I think these Germans turned out OK and are certainly a great improvement over the lumpen proles (Minifigs maybe?) that I'd bought back in the day.

So I'll count points for this lot as follows:

18 28mm Germans                90 points

Overdue and returns room     20 points

Total                                     110 points 

Here's the project progress so far! Unfortunately there will be a slight delay in resumption as I've run out of 20mm square bases but more are on the way. Ave Imperator!

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Bartertown. Wow. Now, that takes me back - I'm sure I have some figures in my collection that originated from that much-loved site (and I'm sure a few of them are of the same dubious provenance as your first 'Foundry' lot).

Fabulous work on these hirsute Germans, Dallas! You 'flesh method' looks ace and I particularly like the striped and chequed trews of some of the heroes. I look forward to seeing more on this project over the next few months. Well done! 

- Curt