Hello guys,
After a looooooooooong stop, I painted another unit for my 3rd century Roman army.
Middle Imperial Romans are one of my favorite armies, they have a mixture of early and late antiquity features, chainmail (lorica hamata) and segmented armor (lorica segmentata), spears and pilum, gladius substituted by spathae... Old style Gallic helmets with newer designs like Niederbieber helmet, oval shields and rectangular shields/scutum. So very interesting and funny to convert!
It is also an era with lots of wars and even more enemies, being the most famous the Sassanians, Palmyrans, Goths (well, barbarians in general) and frecuently, Romans vs. Romans.
It is an army that can play conflicts from Marcus Aurelius to Diocletian, roughly 100 years, If you are not a "button counter" of course. So lots of flexibility in my humble opinion.
Here is the first post about III century Roman miniatures in the blog:
https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2022/02/3rd-century-romans-project.html
Now my second unit fully painted and based: Legio Secunda Parthica:
Miniatures are a mixture of A & A miniatures with plastic Wargames Atlantic miniatures, which are very easy to paint and well sculpted.
The most boring part was hand painting all the shields, following the design of Legio II Parthica, at least in all the illustrations I have seen, you can see some in the previous post about 3rd century Romans here in the blog.
I added some 3d printed bits like some helmets , like the officer in the front rank, and a miniature in the back row.
I hope you like these little legionaries!
Very nice! I have an A&A Middle Imperial army too but have only painted a unit of Palestinian clubmen so far…
ReplyDeleteThanks Cyrus, I want also some clubmen , they are unique and fun to paint :D
DeleteVery nice work and a fine job on the shields! I'm about a quarter of the way through my 3rd Century Romans(A&A) and they are quite fun to do.
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Thanks Crhistopher! I have seen them, very inspiring, and your late Roman collection is superb!
DeleteThank you kindly! Looking forward to your next additions.
DeleteChristopher
Lovely work Jose…
ReplyDeleteWhat’s not to love about this period…
All the best. Aly
Thank you Ally! yes, I just wish not to be involved in so many periods... hahaha Cheers
DeleteFantastic painting and a great period!
ReplyDeleteThank you mate ;)
DeleteHi, do you still have pics of your Belisarius Byzantine army? A couple of years ago - I saw your Heruli. You can email me directly if you wish. I have painted an Early Byzantine army but it may be closer to the slightly later Maurikion Byzantine army. Kstulberg@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHi Keith, sent email :)
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