EARLY IMPERIAL ROMAN AUXILIARY ARCHERS AND BALEANIC SLINGERS

Starting to slowly put together forces for Infamy Infamy, after looking at all the different manufactures' miniatures for this period I decided to go with Victrix miniatures.

Lovely models with plenty of  crisp detail, great for painting. They are plastic and need to be assembled with the help of some plastic glue. The Victrix site has some great images for reference, which does help with selecting colours for the forces.

The Early Imperial Roman arches have been painted with a bit of variety in the colour of the tunics and pants. I also attached a thread to the bows to give them a more realistic look.

The Baleanic Slingers tunic have been painted with a slight variation in colour and are a bit more gritty.

All the figures are bases on metal with the groups base also made of metal with tiny magnets superglued and surface texture added with a thin coat of Milluput.

Its been a great experience painting a different period of troops in History, at the moment I am assembling some Early Imperial Roman Auxiliary Cavalry to paint. 

 

Cheers John 

WHAT A COWBOY DICE

Seems all the talk and excitement has been focused on the recent release of What a Cowboy. I must admit I have also got the bug for WAC,I am looking forward to some fun games with WAC.

My first introduction to WAC was at the Lard Zone here at Cancon 2023 with Frank and his crew hosting the WAC event. 

Upon returning home, I decided to make my own dice for WAC after noting what dice where used for the game. I order 12mm and 16mm dice blank white dice from ebay and painted the images on the dice by hand using Vallejo model colour paints. I first painting the image silhouette with Vallejo black primer and then adding the colours. I sealed the painted surface with a couple of coats of Tamiya enamel clear gloss. 

I ordered and received the rule book along with the cards couple of days ago, in the mean time, to get inspired, I have started to scan the web for images of Wild West buildings to build and have started this week with my first 28mm building (Grocery store).

Cheers John