Warmaster

Painted Romans

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Two units of Romans, based for Warmaster Ancients. Plus some casualties – I clipped the end figure off the stand of three and he makes a great sprawled-out dead guy.

I’ve tried to keep painting really simple. Undercoated white, then flesh, tan for wood and leather. That’s the bulk of the figure. Sometimes I’ll do tunic decorations. I’ll wash it with GW’s Agrax Earthshade and then do a quick highlight.

Metal helmets and spearpoints get a black wash and highlight as well.

The shields are taken from the notitia dignitatum, a list of units and shield designs from the late Roman Empire. Some would be incredibly time consuming so I’ll probably simplify some for future units to speed painting.

A new scale

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I’ve been appreciating Warmaster and Warmaster Ancients recently. It’s a fantastic ruleset that captures the feel of leading a premodern army without bogging down in complicated maneuver or command rules. It’s in 10mm scale and while I’ve been using 15mm for playing fantasy, I wanted to stick with the intended scale for historicals.

Years ago I bought 10mm Imperial Romans and Germans from Steve Barber Miniatures. Now I’m working on building a late Roman force that’ll match the size of the Steve Barber sculpts, albeit a bit bulkier and easier to paint. Here are the results so far:

The figures progress from left to right, with the enthusiastic fellow on the far right the latest sculpt. You can see the improvement, I hope! I have to add shield bosses to this stand. We’ll see how it casts.