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Finally I'm starting to get to the proper "line of battle" troops of the Roman army I'm collecting and painting - and why not start at the back, with the Triarii?
First posted on 6 November 2024 | 8:52 pm
As heralded last week, I used some magnets to allow the two Victrix elephants in their kit to be used with interchangeable crew and accoutrements (OK, shields clipped to the sides of the howdahs), giving me Successor, Numidian and Roman elephants, just not all at the same time..
This is the full set of clip-on shields and glued-together crew for the two elephants.
You can (just about) see how rare earth magnets have been glued in place between the feet of the guys, so they can connect to a small patch of steel paper that I have glued down inside the base of each howdah to hold the crew in place firmly enough for gaming use.
Here's the "Red & Green" elephant with Successor shields and crew attached - you can see this as a Numidian elephant in an earlier blog post.
I spent quite some time carefully doing the crew as they are the most visual and visible part of the model.
The elephant is quite a nice model and looks realistically proportioned and animated.
I copied the "bit in the middle" of the pike from the style I did for my Victrix pikemen - but for this figure that bit was included in the casting (moulding?) whereas for the pikemen I had to add it with rolled up paper!
The shield is attached with 2 magnets, as is the spear case at the back. I glued the magnets on the outside of the howdah for the shields, and then realised that they were strong enough to magnetize to another magnet through the walls of the howdah, so the spear case only has 1 maget outside and one on the inside wall of the howdah.
The "blue" elephant with blue crew.
The shield pattern was a transfer which I blended in with mixed paint to reach the rim of the shield.
Alwys worth adding eyes to elephants IMO - make sure to add dark black eyebrows too though or it just looks weird.
I snuck in a couple of 15mm shield transfers as a small bit of decoration on the blanket.
Here are both elephants togther in Successor kit.
And the Blue elephant with a very non-historical "Roman" shield and Roman crew.
I had these LBMS transfers going spare from a much older project, and while I know they are nowhere near the right period for a Republican Roman elephant they do have the advantage of being very "Roman", and also using up some shields and transfers I would otherwise have no need for!
They are now ready to take the field ...once I paint up the 100 or so Foundry legionaries !
First posted on 30 October 2024 | 10:21 am
Victrix sell a rather clever multi-use elephant kit, with 2 elephants and crew for Roman, Greek or Numidian armies all included.
For my Numidian allied contingent (for the ADLG lists) I have pulled together a set of Numidian crew and some magnetize-on shields, all of which can be added to an elephant to make it "Numidian", with the magnets meaning its not committed to that role full time.
The kit comes with 6 "halves" allowing you to set the 2 elephants up with different alignments and arrangements of legs.First posted on 26 October 2024 | 10:12 am
I've just posted some video batreps from all 4 of my games at the Kegworth Codgers midweek ADLG competitin held a couple of weeks back.
You can watch along with these mostly sub-10-minute videos to see the unsubtle Parthians throw cataphracts (and cataphract camels!) into a series of defensively arrayed mostly-Roman armies with varying degrees of success
The videos include ADLG army lists for all of the forces involved, the results from the event and an announcement about further midweek ADLG competitions.
First posted on 23 October 2024 | 11:37 pm
Next up in the Numidian allied contingent (after the infantry) are the famed Numidian Light Horsemen.
First posted on 17 October 2024 | 10:06 am
With a mostly-Foundry Republican/Camillan Roman army at the head of the painting queue right now I've already done the Velites and next up I have made a start on, erm, not the actual "Romans" but instead a small Numidian allied force made up from Victrix figures.
And, from "ground level", here are the guys ready to hurl javelins or attack with swords!
More to come soon!
First posted on 12 October 2024 | 10:06 am
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