It HAD To Be Done! New 10mm Romans Jump to the Front of the Painting Queue!

Of course, how could I resist - I HAD to have a try at painting a few of the recent 10mm arrivals! One of the many advantages of this scale being, I only spent 60-90 minutes to do everything you see here (bar the time it took for the black undercoat to dry)

First batch of legionaries, I did a black undercoat then painted straight onto it.

They came out OK (after a few redo's and touch ups!) but next time I think I will do a white dry brush and see if it improves them a bit.

I may also have to invest in some 2mm flock!

Example of an individual Roman command figure from start to finish this evening - with the white dry brush mentioned above!

You can get a pretty good impression of the level of detail - remembering, this figure is 10mm tall!

These will be the next to be worked on - hopefully I will get them done tomorrow evening.

This is the individual figure shown above, half an hour later, having been painted

I am pretty happy with the scorpion design on his shield

And the shading on his cloak!

To balance things up, here is the Leading Lady for the opposition - Boudicca in her chariot!

This is a 5-part "kit", the chariot itself, two separate horses, the driver and Boudicca.

My Boudicca is based on the Alex Kingston version, (on the left below) although all recent movies seem to agree, she was a fiery redhead!

I did not do any facial tattoos/woad on her, as I thought it might just mess up the figure, in such a small scale?

Once again, I think the detail on these tiny Cromarty Forge models really shines through in the images of the chariot.

And finally, just over a week before my friends arrive from Scotland, expecting to walk into the pleasant warmth of a New Zealand spring, yesterday, we had THIS!

Obviously, for many of you northern hemisphere types with your more "robust" winters, this is not even worthy of mention - but for Auckland, this is a very rare event - I can honestly count on one hand, the number of times I have seen enough sleet/hail fall to actually lie on the ground like this in the 35 years I have been living here! I was on the car phone to a colleague when this sleet hit and he had to hang up because he could not hear a word I was saying over the noise of the sleet pelting down on my car - it only lasted a couple of minutes, but it was pretty intense while it did!