Wait...what was I just doing?

One thing that gets me frustrated and bored is painting the same thing over and over (Think Roman legionaries). The past few days I have been switching off between my Romans in 28mm and my SS in 15mm. Different styles & colors among other things gives me a break from one to the other. OK, I know you are saying "Duh!", but this is the first time it has worked for me.

In the past few weeks I have:

• Finished my six tube SS-mortar platoon (100%)
• Finished my three gun SS PaK 38 platoon (100%)
• Finished my first 20 man Caesarian Roman legionnaire unit, sans shields (90%)
• Painted & based my four gun SS PaK 40 platoon (100%)
• Rebased & detailed 29 Baleric slingers
• Rebased & detailed 14 Eastern Auxilia archers
• Finished 12 Western Auxilia archers (100%)

I am working on:

• 14 Eastern Auxilia Archers
• Roman Catapult
• Twelve man Roman cavalry unit
• My second 20 man Roman legionnaire unit
• Two gun SS light infantry gun (leIG 18) platoon

I am pretty pleased with all this.

Tim, obsessed they call him...

We're painting, we're painting...

Ironically my painter's block seems to have been cured. So far in the past five weeks or so I have painted two 20 man legionaire units. The first started off as a lark. I had a handful of Foundry's "crouching legionaires" (IR087). I really liked the figures, but they had no command. For the heck of it I decided to modify three of the figures into a centurion, cornucin and signifier. Much to my surprise my conversions worked! I still have to work out shields for these guys (classic imperial or Caesarian), but they are done but for that and look great!

I also painted and completed a unit of the Foundry Caesarians. I have left the shields off these guys too, cause I haven't decided what I want to do with that yet.

More to follow.

Tim, they call him...

Once Bitten...

In the past few weeks it seems I am suffering from what some might call a malady. I have caught the painting disease! Short of breaking or bones or putting out of the eyes (or a visit from Elizabeth Hurley) there is no cure for this. So much the better.

The sub-type of my illness seems to be confined to Ancient Rome and even further to figures I have already purchased. A rare sub-type indeed.

I am painting, re-painting, re-basing my entire Roman army. Currently I am working on both 1st century AD "Caesarian" Romans and 2nd century AD Imperial Romans. Oddly enough based on some reading I have done about the Kalkriese battlefield, the transition was not as clearly defined as I thought.

In a nutshell at Kalkriese, a number of lorica segmentata were found with the other effects. This places the introduction of the lorica to at least 9 AD and possibly earlier. This changes a bit my perception of what a 1st century legion looked like, but no matter.

Many years ago I purchased some beautiful Caesarian Romans from Wargames Foundry. I organized them into units and then put them in a box. I am determined to paint them up and field them.

Lets see where this gets me...

Tim, they call him...