Gaming and painting is in a state of transition at the moment. After several months devoted to painting and wargaming with 10mm armies of the Thirty Years War and English Civil War I am swinging back to ancient battles with 20mm armies. A forlorn Roman Allied Legion remains gathering dust but no new paint at the edge of the painting desk as my first act has been to base up a batch of Samnites. These figures were painted last year and I have been prompted to get them ready for battle as I may be running some games set in the Italian peninsular between 320 and 260 BC, using the Three Ages of Rome Rules. Also, another batch of Samnites has arrived with the latest order made from Newline Designs and searches through the stockpile have unearthed several more units worth.
I won't stop painting TYW figures. I finished yet another cavalry regiment at the same time as basing the Samnites - these are the Lancer Miniatures figures that are rather chunkier than the other 10mm figures I have, but who is going to look too closely at scale comparisons when about to launch a charge?
Two more TYW cavalry regiments and some Generals are underway and I will finish those before moving on to another major batch of ancients. Will it be the missing legion? Possibly, but possibly not. I have enjoyed getting my Macedonians out again after several years but they are looking rather tired and not up to the standard of recent painting and basing, so I may embark on a refreshment and rebasing project for them - adding to their number as I go.
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| The Samnites from another angle |
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| Update on 24 Feb : 10mm Cuirassier Regiment now ready to base. Final Regiment of Dutch style cavalry underway in the background. Romans languish off the the left. |
Those shields just about leap off the page with their bright blue body and red/white trim. Nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I enjoyed doing a design I could paint myself rather than use transfers. Probably they should not be so regimented as to all carry the same shield pattern, but there we are.
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