A Roman Invasion

At least that's what it feels like on my painting table. I've got legionnaires, auxiliaries, cavalry, command stands and light infantry coming out the wazoo (technical term).

So, here are some more legionaries, Warlord Games again. I've got quite adept at painting these production line style. It's boring but it gets the job done and so long as I intersperse it with something different and interesting I'll be fine.

Next up, Auxiliaries!

Saxon/Viking Light Infantry

I hate these models,  well most of them anyway.  I have a Gripping Beast and Bill Thornhill model on the two commands stands and they improve the look of the unit. 

The rest of the models are Warlord Games plastic Viking Bondi (previously Wargames Factory) and they're really light on detail and weird poses but they'll do for multi purpose dark age light infantry.

I did a pretty simple paint scheme with just base colors and then an army painter strong tone dip. Now that I'm slowly picking up Hail Caesar I have quite a lot of models to paint so need to get used to bulk painting again.  After years of painting skirmish forces I need to relearn how to paint lots of models!

Dark Ages Shaman

I don't even remember where I got this model from as I don't remember buying it.  But it really does suit my Jomsvikings and will work nicely adding flavor to our dark ages games. 

I went for pretty natural neutral tones as a color scheme. 

Stug

Dammit,  I hate resin models they're so hard to fix if they're molded wrong.  This is a Warlord Games resin Stug G and that's right, it's wrong. I've had this for year's and hated the original paint job, it didn't match any of my later models and just looked shoddy. So in a fit of positivity I pulled it to bits (carefully), stripped it and started again.  It was at the this point that I remembered that the tracks were curved and no amount of hot water baths and gentle bending would restraighten them.

So in the end it was a little green stuffing to the rescue,  I don't think you can tell they're bent anymore. 

I added the schurzen this time round as I like the flat space for the camo scheme and decals.

I don't think Warlord make these anymore with the introduction of their plastics range so I'll hopefully never have to deal with bent resin again (yeah right).

Hanomag

Another Rubicon kit with loads of cool parts and clever hidden joins. I did scratch build a gunner for the Mg42 but he kept breaking off so I decided to go with just a driver.  

I'm quite happy with the camo scheme,  it's in theme with my other German armor and gives a coherent them.

If anything my infantry now let's down my armor,  I've got a box of Warlord Pioneers that I need to put together to go with this,  but it'll probably take me a few years to get round to it. 

Death Guard Predator, Kinda!

OK,  I like to save money cos I'm stingy. That's right,  I'm a yorkshireman which means short arms and deep pockets so whenever I can avoid spending cash I will.  And with GW's terrifying prices down here in NZ its pretty rare that I would spend any of my hard earned on their products. 

I'm quite enjoying painting my 40k Death Guard at the moment,  it makes a refreshing change from the hordes of Saxons and Roman's I've been doing recently. So I decided that I needed some heavy support to back up my not Hellbrute and what better way than a not Predator!

This originally started life as a Tamiya 1/48 Cromwell that bought to support my slowly growing Bolt Action British however I bought it before they released version 1,  and not knowing how popular it would become and how everyone would get 1/56 scale armor for the game. Which is fine but my 1/48 Cromwell dwarfs Tiger 1's so unfortunately it's sat in my cupboard gathering dust for the last decade.  

However 40k minis are huge so the footprint of this is about right for a death guard tank so I grabbed my plastic glue, scalpel and set to work nurglifying it! There are parts from chaos marauders and warriors,  ogres, vampires, tau, rogue trader era space marines as well as a sh#t ton of milliput to give it that mutated look. 

I've gone a little overboard whey the rust effect but I think it works okay,  I may have to rusting my Hellbrute now,  just to keep them in theme. 

This top down view gives you an idea of just how much milliput I used to sculpt all nasty organs, flesh and random pipes type stuff.

Somewhere in the fleshy mutation on the front is a face of some poor lost soul dragged into this beast as it thundered across the battlefields of the grim dark.

I used a lot of inks and washes on this to try and get a suitably grubby and pestilence feel to it,  I quite like how it turned out. 

Ancients Skirmish Archers

Another bunch of the old Wargames Factory models,  I don't even recall what they're called but I'll be using them as generic ancient Mediterranean skirmishers (they look kinda Greek). 

They work nicely across a bunch of forces in for Hail Caesar.

I have the same complaint about these as I do for the Bondi, very vague features and not a lot of detail,  but in these it doesn't look too bad! Painted like the bondi, block colors and army painter dip, nice and quick.