Art De La Guerre

[madaxeman]

The almost-final element of my 28mm L'Art de la Guerre Republican/Triumverate Roman project is the biggest and most meaty - 100 Legionaries (or Hastati and Principes in old money I guess?).

The figures are almost all from the classic Foundry ranges, mainly as they are just such great figures that still stand the test of time even when when put up against all of the newer plastic ranges out there.



They do however also stand the test of being expensive, and even though I do keep reminding myself that there is no point in saving a few quid buying sub-par figures it was still a challenge to click "buy" on the Foundry shopping cart after stacking up more than a dozen or so packs of Foundry infantry!



Luckily though, Mark Fry was selling a huge unpainted set of Foundry Roman figures at the end of last year, so that's how I convinced myself to bite the bullet and pick up enough infantry figures (as well as a set of mounted Great Commanders) to make up the meat (and two veg) of a Roman army.



Painting up 100 figures is quite a challenge, and even more so once you add in the LBMS shield transfer application process x 100 ... so I've documented it all with LOTS of photos of the finished and WiP figures along the way.

See the figures here: https://www.madaxeman.com/main/28mm_Republican_Romans.php





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[Mark G Fry]

As they say here is old 'Brizzle' town Tim .... "PROPER JOB!"

Those look fab and as you say they are great castings - you just cannot beat Foundry at their best in 28mm.
But 100 LBM shield transfers was a real labour of love - but they are well worth it and really look the business.

Glad they went to a good home - if I remember correctly Jimmy Walton picked up the remainder - as this was originally a DBM army project

I shall look forward to facing them at some point soon(ish).

Thanks for sharing
Mark
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'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.' Xenophon, The Anabasis