Hi Mike, I reckon I have around 1000 Romans painted; 3 legions of 240 EIR and Caesarian, plus contingents of Polybian, Middle and Late Imperials. Also a couple of hundred more part painted, that need finishing or basing.
[Image]This is the first of a number of Middle Imperial Romans units that I intend to paint. I bought 23 of these, nicely painted, on eBay, and painted one more to match. I've taken them off their WAB bases , retouched and removed their shields (they had oval shields, which feels wrong with Segmentata). I've given them Black Tree Scuta, becuase I feel the A&A are a little irregular in size. I hope to start basing, tonight...I will be doing a Late Roman army too, lots to do...
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Close this window Jump to comment formNo, a chap cannot ever have enough Romans!
:o)
Matt
24 March 2011 at 19:50
It was, of course, a rhetorical question... :-)
24 March 2011 at 20:07
How many Romans would be too many ?
When I collected them, the answer was...as many as I can get :-D
Cheers
paul
24 March 2011 at 20:26
Clearly a case of ".....when too many romans is barely enough....."
Another army pack should "nearly" do it?
PP
24 March 2011 at 21:25
One can have too many Romans, of course. But never too many Middle Imperial Romans!
Great period I say.
Cheers
SG
24 March 2011 at 21:53
I'm looking forward to painting some more. The "auxiliary" figures are particularly nice. I'm thinking perhaps 100 figures over the next year.
If only that Dr Phil Hendry fellow hadn't already painted most of the range, so brillantly...
24 March 2011 at 22:08
this bring us to a less rhetorical question : Can a man have too many unpainted romans ?
25 March 2011 at 16:56
Romans are one thing around here, that do, generally, tend to get painted.... but that said I do have 5-600 unpainted.
25 March 2011 at 17:01
Heh - you win on the unpainted score. Only about 200 unpainted here, but there's a good 100 more I need to buy for the complete EIR Legion.
Mind you, I gather from conversation around our club we can between us raise about two legions of unpainted at 18 figs/cohort :D
26 March 2011 at 11:56
Hi Mike, I reckon I have around 1000 Romans painted; 3 legions of 240 EIR and Caesarian, plus contingents of Polybian, Middle and Late Imperials. Also a couple of hundred more part painted, that need finishing or basing.
26 March 2011 at 15:34
Hello Simon
more great work from yourself fanstatic very inspirational ..
may i ask if you have any Caesarians spare could i get you to part with some
Regards
Andrew
26 March 2011 at 16:10
Hi Andrew, sorry I've not got a lot of spare Foundry Caesarians; they are one army that does get painted, around here.
26 March 2011 at 16:38
You could look at the Aventines, though. Some of the Hastati and Command are very suitable as Caesarians....
26 March 2011 at 17:01
If you want to "give" me a few "to be painted" ones when I'll come for salute, please do, BTW.
26 March 2011 at 18:22
Sounds good, Greg! :-)
26 March 2011 at 18:51