28mm Imperial Roman starter army from Warlord Games

This has been sitting around in various stages of completion for months. I fiddled with the metal on and off for most of that time. I wasn't satisfied with the figures. Then I looked back and saw that the shield designs didn't start off as dull as I had them. I'd screwed up and painted the shields red instead of white and this had dulled the other colours. So I had to paint those back in. Doh! Now they look OK.

The set contains

• 24 Auxilia
• 20 Pretorian Guard
• 20 Roman Veterans
• 60 Legionaries
• Waterslide transfers

The Auxilia

The Pretorians

The Veteran Legionaries

 The Legionaries

28mm Old Glory Roman Legionaries in segmented armour

These are Old Glory figures. You can buy them dead cheap in a packet of 30 with the Old Glory Army card. These shields are hand painted. Don't do it! It took far longer than painting the actual figure. I am on the look out for shield transfers for the other units.

 

Warlord Roman veterans work in progress

I am painting some of my 28mm Warlord Roman starter army, which includes a unit of 20 of these "Roman veterans". The figures have shields with bits missing and too many figures with bandages over one eyes. I can't decide if this is how I am going to do the armour. It was painted, then glossed, then washed and then highlighted by painting silver back in the middle of areas (which means most places except edges and recesses). The whole figure is gloss at the moment. I will matt everything except the metal bits.

Italeri Roman infantry (set number 6021)

There are many nice, and very cheap, plastics sets on the market. I've painted this set of Romans for someone in Australia

The building in the background was there so I could check the colour balance for the camera. I broke my Canon SLR camera, which will take months to get fixed, and have had to use my "holiday" camera. After a lot of experimentation I managed to get some decent pictures. At least the colours in the photograph are an accurate reflection of the colours on the figures.