Hi guys
Finished the 2nd Republican Roman legion, yellow shields for this lot, (my first legion in red is behind) working on converting figures for a 3rd legion, but next up on the Ancients painting table are Iberians, I’ll start by having enough to be allies to both Rome and Carthage, then I’ll expand to a full Iberian army, these guys need a lot more work, shields and tunics will end up having intricate designs, they are just in their base coat stage at the moment.
Hi guys
Whilst searching through my stash for 1/72 fantasy figures I stumbled across an old 1/72 Punic war DBMM project, I have great memories playing DBM Ancients (I had 15mm Polybian Roman, early imperial Roman, medieval German and Samurai) at the army wargaming club back in the 90s, I still have those armies in the stash, but have thought a 1/72 Polybian Roman and Carthaginian army would be fun to make, here I am working on some Spanish allies, that can be used with either side, I plan to expand it to a full ancient Spanish army at some stage.
I am using the Hat Spanish set, its obviously limited in poses with only 8, 2 of which are slingers, so I am doing a lot of head, legs and torso swaps to get as much variation as possible, at the same time I will try to fix the squared off poses, to a more classic fighters stance, and get as many shields facing the enemy as I can.
I have also added chest and back armour plates and long shields to the scutarii medium infantry, and small round shields to the light caetrati infantry, there are only 2 slinger poses, so tried to adjust those as much as I could, I’ll wash the figures then mount them for undercoating and painting.
