forever wading ....

roman patrol cross a small river...

Slave Market ...

A quick setup of a slave market, using some of my civilian figures;

 the small paved platform is another nice model from J G Miniatures.

Celtic Round Huts

Two new Celtic huts for the scenics, they are from J G Miniatures, very nice models

Roman civilians and market stalls - WIP

Nearly finished the two wading roman infantry; have delved into my rather small hill of lead to get at my roman civilians and market stalls. These have been primed and I've started work on them ....

Roman auxiliaries wading - WIP

Made up a couple of trial figures for some wading roman auxiliaries (used up all my spare bits for them). One leaning forward and the other off balance ....

I'll do a bit of green stuff work on them and then see how they paint up.

Gallic Cavalry Additions ....

Finally the four gallic cavalry I've been working on are finished...

 shown here with the rest of the gallic cavalry escorting Queen Gargamantua in her chariot.

Organising - labelling

A little bit of tidying up and organising being done on blog posts - mostly the additions of labels for posts. A tweak to the blog layout and maybe the theme....

Livestock Raid

Somewhere to the north of the roman military frontier in the territory of the Pretentiates tribe....

At a small settlement, the local bard is trying out his latest composition on the chickens and ducks....

 Meanwhile the livestock is being brought back to the settlement ...

A group of warriors from the Nasturces tribe appear, they are after the livestock. They run towards the animals whooping and shouting - spooking the cattle slightly... two of the escort try to hold them off....

 The attacking group of the Nasturces has been held off but more come into view ...

they close in on the livestock, their herders and escort

the herders manage to move the animals forward as the escort hold off the raiding warriors ...

the raiding warriors get very close to the animals ....

but the escort gets the upper hand over the raiders and keep them at bay ...a couple of raiders try to drive off the goats ...

but have to turn to deal with some warriors who have come out to help from the settlement ....

the escort is still holding back the other raiders ....

one of the raiders attempts to attack the cow herder, who as the warrior rushes in, dodges and with a well aimed blow of his herding stick knocks him out cold...

the remaining raiders are now being dealt with, a couple escape but the rest are cut down ...

the animals are brought back to the safety of the settlement ....

slowly slowly ...

things are ticking over slowly on this project...

not much left in my stash of bits ...

 the gallic cavalry additions are at least primed and the horses painted ....

a pile of roman civilians, stallholders and stalls await the paint brush .....

gallic cavalry additions - WIP

finished the intial conversion work for some extra gallic cavalry; only enough bits and horses for four figures...

need to tidy up some of the green stuff bits ....

The Roman Army ...

the roman army assembled on the table ..... nice to see it all together ....

Something to tinker with ...

A sort of the remainder of spares box yielded some spare horse and riders, plus a few shields. Enough to make up four more cavalry figures for the Gauls.

I had to hack two riders about a bit to fit on two spare Italeri Fabbri horses, the other should be a simple assembly and detail job.

Need to make good and fill in with green stuff etc ....

Auxiliary Cohort ...

finally got round to painting up the last unit of auxiliaries (converted Italeri romans see http://romansgohome.blogspot.com/2018/01/final-tweak-to-auxiliaries-wip.html)

The unit has arrived at Botulinum after a tour of duty on the northern military frontier. They have been turned out on to the parade ground for an inspection ....

The legionaries are on the march ...

The detachment of the legion had left their headquarters at Condimentium and are marching to take up quarters in Botulinum - it is hoped their presence may quell the local unrest among the gallic tribes.

Roman Auxiliary Cavalry

An ala of roman auxiliary cavalry has arrived to re-inforce the garrison of Botulinum; they are being reviewed by the garrison commander ...

last bit of work on the roman auxiliary cavalry ...

been working on the roman cavalry - finally got all the green stuff done and the horse furniture finished -

two more roman auxiliary cavalry conversions

finished the last two roman auxiliary cavalry conversions, a bit of an assembly job with bits from many sources (Hat horses, Toyway torsos....)

quite a bit of green stuff work to do on these and then work through the rest of the unit ...

a base for the the Ampitheatre ...

pulled out the ampitheatre pieces today to make a base for the arena.

for the base I decide to use some Daler mounting board and some sandy look fabric

 The arena was setup on the sheet of mounting board on and drawn round to get the shape; this was cut out and then covered with the fabric (using some strong glue for the edges and dabs of PVA in the middle); after that I covered some offcuts with stone flagstone paper sheet for the entrance area...

 The entrance area ...

 on the finished base I used some sploshes of PVA and some different colours of sandy scatters to improve the look....

gladiators to paint and some spectators to do ....

final tweak to the auxiliaries (WIP)

the Italeri Roamns that I am using for my new auxiliary unit have had their heads replaced with some later style helmets (mix of Call-To-Arms and Toyway Heroic ones)

in addition I altered the signifier so that the standard is held on a piece of wire (the plastic being a bit weak) - now they can join the paint queue.

The roman auxiliary cavalry awaits 2 more horses to be obtained and to add the riders before I get them ready for painting.