Blog Marcus' painting blog 2022

I dis some building. This was pre - scabbard adding.

 

WA Unarmoured Late Roman Infantry?

 

Victrix

 

Hmm branching out a bit from your beloved Wargames Atlantic

Could you post a Size Comparison with your WA and Gripping Beast figures please? I wanted to check to see if the Victrix heads are particularly bigger than those on WA or GB models as the impression seems to give from a lot of shots

 

Moreso providing variation in the project workflow.

More scale testing:

Left to right:

WGA Persian Bowman, WGA goth quiver, Victrix late Roman head.

Wargames Atlantic dark age Irish, victrix late Roman head and spear arm.

Gripping beast Saxon thegn body, gripping beast late Roman head, WGA late Roman spear arm in mail.

Full victrix unarmored late Roman.

Wakanda sprite-zero can for scale.

 

Cheers for this mate.

From this it's clear to see that the heads actually don't look too bad, it's the bodies that are the issue - the Victrix models are about a head taller than the Gripping Beast and Wargames Atlantic ones, probably about the size of Warhammer Fantasy minis (which at least confirms that the Victrix Celts are the best source of models to make a Warhammer Fantasy Albion army from).

A pity, because I liked the inclusion of British heads in the Victrix Late Roman set and was considering them plus their Dark Age Archers as a possible source of additional unarmoured infantry and archer models for my British/Welsh army. Of course the WA Goths, as you mentioned before, have some nice unarmoured bodies and bow arms, but I will have to rely upon the spare heads I have (and have currently misplaced ) from my Warlord Celts for getting the maximum number of moustaches into my army.

Good to know though that the Victrix heads look fine upon slightly shorter models, because I was planning to get an Oathmark Human Infantry box to make some more elite Rhyfelwyr infantry and their heads are about the size of Victrix ones, with their bodies being a comparable size to Gripping Beast and WA.

 

Now that you mention it, yea the victrix do look heroically scaled in body proportion, and that's why I've always felt thier heads have been too tiny for themselves.

Huh.

Not necessarily a problem, as from 3 foot table difference nothing really matters there.

 

Built 3 more Foederati, this time armored, using victrix heads on gripping beast bodies.

Close enough for government work, in a shieldwall. With Roman oval scutum.

 

Total painted tonight:

1 death world imperial guardsman.
1 barrow wight
1 daemonic chaos warrior
12 sagitarii archers

Photos when I wake up.

 

I can't share everything I've done in the past couple of days because of NDA, but here's an update.

Now up to 36 out of 60 Roman archers. 12 not pictured because they are not based yet.

 

Built more legionaries on my birthday. Twas a good 30th. Check the food thread for deliciousness.

 

Dragged out the rest of the Foederati to make a count.

 

Newest edition to the jade host of Qua'phar.

Qua'phar had some of the most finely wrought enslaved guardians.

The recent ogre incursions caused by the border mercenary "patrols" of Ophidia destroyed or defaced a large number of these.

In retribution His Imperial Eminence Vizier Ankh'Maat had their corpses desecrated, and their skulls bound with sacred plaques before being raised in servitude to His Imperial Majesty.

Now only the Viridian crown can release their souls from the arcane shackles that bind them to this plane.

Mafek'Nun, King of Qua'phar and bearer of the emerald sceptre, is not merciful by nature.

 

Great to see different manufacturers here - I can spot Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors and Late Roman Infantry among your WA Romans and Goths. All quality miniatures.

 

I have bought and painted every major manufacturer.

I've collected odds and ends throughout the last few years. I decided to put them to use bulking out ranks of possible

 

Finally got some painting time in. Put a few more steps on 24 archers

 

Just wanted to ask another question about these chaps and Sludge - I've noticed in the Sludge rules that Line Infantry are meant to be on 40mm round bases supposedly, but yours look to be on bigger ones - what size are your Line Infantry on, and is it hugely important that they have to be on 40mms? Because I've been eyeing up some evidently larger bases on Footsore Miniatures' site that hold three figures already mounted on 25mm rounds, so that the figures can be used in other systems:

 

I believe I put them on 40s. I could be mistaken. They are in a box somewhere. When they resurface I shall confirm for you.

 

24 more archers and 1 penal legion trooper.

I finished my 60 Archer sub project. Yay.

 

Wow, that is nice horde you have here.