Sunday, 12 February 2012

Praetorian Guards



Here are some picture of a unit of Aventine Praetorian Guards I painted this week, Lovely figures, but 28mm figures are getting bigger!

Foundry - Roman Decurion

Foundry - Roman Decurion by emperorbaz
Foundry - Roman Decurion, a photo by emperorbaz on Flickr.

Ive painted a lot of Romans lately! But I keep coming back to the Foundry Trajanic Roman range - simply the best IMHO, just sad how so many figures these days make them seem like dwarves.

This Decurian is painted using a white undercoat, then painted a basecoat and washed with Games Workshop inks (Badab balck over mithril silver for the lorica segmentata seems to work much better than drybrushing Boltgun metal ove a black undercoat - which is the way I used to do it). The red is just blood red washed with devlan mud).

Norman Cavalry - Conquest Games

These Normans from Conquest are some of the best plastics around, very well sculpted and proportioned, pity theres no Infantry yet!

Roman Cavalry Warlord Games

This was my first batch of Warlord metals. Quite pleased with the end result, but found they needed quite a lot of cleaning up before painting (not particularly well molded under the horse). The other thing I have notice is that whilst the size of these and the Roman Legionaries is compatible, the Plastic Auxilia re much chunkier. These cavalry are metal

Roman Cavalry Warlord Games

Roman Auxilia - Warlord Games

Aventine Republican Roman General