5th Century AD Late Romans, a 15mm army project I'm currently working on: mostly cavalry so far, infantry still to be added.
Not the best paint jobs, just some extra work added to shields, a few units with layered capes and white clothes all layered. The figures are PSC Ultracast Late Romans, siocast version of the Lurkio 15mm Late Romans...they're damnably mediocre as far as figures go but it's all I can get at the moment. Massive amounts of clean-up and all spears replaced with nylon broom bristles, most right hands re-sculpted with green stuff to make this work. Pain.
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| The whole mob so far. |
Generals
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Equites Brachiati Seniores
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Equites Dalmatae Passerentiaci
Equites Constantiani 'Feroces'
Equites Honoriani Taifali Iuniores
Equites Sagittarii Cordueni
Equites Sagittarii Iuniores
CdlT
Brilliant !! Great job with those Romans.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jose. On to the infantry now...
DeleteThose look splendid. Late Roman is such a colourful and interesting looking army and it is still amazes me that we have (fairly good) information on the actual shield patterns that were used. After painting my Late Roman army, using mostly old 1980s Minifigs and Asgard figures, those Lurkio derived plastics look pretty good to me - at least with the benefit of your paint job on them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nathan: the painting lifts them a lot, so does replacing the spindly spears, etc. They're usable, but range like Khurasan or Forged in Battle are miles ahead.
DeleteIronically, the old Minifigs you've been doing have reminded me of the first army I ever painted...same figures largely, but re-casts of them (I was new and knew nothing), and thus with even worse details!
CdlT
Love this period! Just as I imagined them! Field of glory rules?
ReplyDeleteI prefer FOG with house rules/period-specific additions, though these were mostly use for Mortem et Gloriam a couple of years back. No opponents these days.
DeleteThe whole army is mostly worthless now as it's all Ultracast/Siocast plastic (baring the pink Cataphracts) and the PSC formula is going brittle 3-ish+ years after casting. So these are becoming increasingly fragile, ankles on foot and horses increasingly break under very minimal pressure and eventually the whole lot will doubtless have to be binned.
A complete waste as it turns out: caveat emptor, and all that jazz.
CdlT