Roman General

First post of the new year, and nice to get something else finished for this project. This time a roman general (shown in middle of being made here)

Work in progress - gallic cavalry

finished off the horse harness bits for the gallic gavalry and based them - off they go into the painting queue.....

Current work in progress ....

Taking advantage of the Xmas break, with some time spare, I decided to sort out some gallic cavalry based on a couple of boxes of HAT cavalry. Some minor conversions (head and arm swaps) with some green stuff yielded 12 chaps - need to finish off the horses - reins etc.

For reins I tried some thicked paper, but these looked naff so I removed them and had a re-think. Xmas day was useful - a piece of ribbon round a prezzie had split - width correct for rein size - I experimented with it on a mounted roman officer that I'm working on.

A couple more Gauls....

these two chaps are from Irregular Miniatures ancients range, compatible in size with the HAT/Italeri figures I'm using for the bulk of the gallic horde.

Gallic Warband (no 2) completed

Slowly but surely, progress is being made- another gallic warband completed (a mix of Italeri and HAT), seen below with the Cafe Storme command figures from the last post.

This brings the gallic horde to 60+; another warband is ready for painting and I'm starting work on some gallic cavalry.

A few oddments ...

A roman civilian, this is a JEC figure - shorted in height and remodelled slightly ...

Two more gauls, these are Cafe Storme items, something with a different pose to paint for change, these will add to the horde,

The roman governer's personal guard, these chaps are from the HAT CeltIberians set  (the rest of the box have been converted into gauls)



Gallic Warband

A gallic warband completed (two more of these to do), sorry piccy is a little fuzzy

Also carried out a storage check, to ensure I had enough space in the boxes I'd bought to store the projected number of figures; I bought a couple of boxes with compartments - thse are great for keeping the specials/civilians and oddments in to stop them getting lost in the 'horde'.