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I had a giftcard from a rebate for a tire purchase and was looking for something new to try out. I remembered playing Triumph a few years back at a Fall In! so decided to give it a shot. These are 15mm Polybian Romans. The casting on the pilum left a lot to be desired so I decided to give them my “Warmaster High Elf” treatment and convert them up. The hafts are brass tube with a small pin tip glued into them. I them added a block of plasticard as the weight and shaped it with a knife.
The rest were pretty much stock, except for some spear and javelin swaps on the Triarii and Velites. I just need to finish building the cavalry then it’s on to painting.
I started off my Polybian Romans with not painting any Romans at all, but Cretan Archers. I’ll be using these as skirmishers. These are closer to true 15mm than the Romans (more 18mm). I’m telling myself that the Romans were just better fed.
I’ve been working on the Velites these past few weeks. Most of the colors have their basecoat down and I’m halfway through painting the red.
I finished up the Velites tonight, the line infantry also has their basecoat of red down as well. I have a small local con coming up where I volunteered to run some Warmaster games so I’m going to take a break from these for a bit to finish up some 10mm terrain. Hopefully I’ll be back to painting them in September.
Thanks guys.
I think I started these Romans two weeks ago. They take a bit more time and effort than the WW2 Americans, I think it’s the red and metalics. I have their shields yet to do, but I wanted to clear coat them first as the shield covers so much of the figure.
Back to the Romans! I finsihed up my Triarii this week and also spent some time putting together bases for everything.
Now I have usable units for Triumph! and can use the figures in a skirmish game as well. Next up is the Principes, cavalry and then I need to figure out the shields. I’m looking at some sort of decal at this point.
I finished up my principes for a game of Triumph! this Saturday. I should be able to get them some bases by then too. I need to start figuring out what I’m going to do for all their shields. I’ll probably track down some design and make decals for them.
These Roman Extraordinarii kind of came along for the ride as I was working on the Principes. They just needed a bit more work that I completed tonight. I also finished up the bases for them and the Principes too.
I spent this week cleaning, priming and glueing shields on the Triarii, Principes and Extraordinarii. I also painted up the Triarii’s shields. I glazed one in the recesses to tone down the shading, not sure if I like it yet. Thoughts? I don’t know why I spent so much time on the figures, the shields cover 80% of the detail.
Work continues on the shields. I finished them for the Principes and Extraordinarii this week. On to the Hastati next.
The Hastatus shields are done as of tonight. I’ve got four bases of cavalry to do next, then everything needs some top coats and basing.
The cavalry conversions got finished up this week, and they got primed and based as well.
I also had this Cretan leader type hanging around so I painted him up too. Not sure what he’s going to be used for yet.
Thanks Darby.
I’ve been working on the Roman cavalry these past weeks and finished up the Equites (aside for the shields) tonight.
Thanks Phil.
I finally finished the horses for my 15mm Polybian Roman allied cavalry this week. I still need to do the shields for them, but that’s going to involve a conversion as I don’t have enough of the two types to split them how I like for easy unit identifcation.
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