Imperial Romans - Initial list

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cool sculpts Phil. Nice crest on the officer! 

[Techno]

Cool sculpts Phil. Nice crest on the officer! 

.....You can get ready for the next questions then, Will.
I think I can find some decent enough ref piccies for the Marian Legionaries......But Eastern Legionaries........
Any ideas Matey ?
Only pic I've found makes them look very similar to the Auxiliaries.

Love these chaps Techno.  Especially the chap with the big arrow, he looks so...purposeful.   

Might have looked a bit more in context if I'd taken him off the cork, and put him next to the ballista, I suppose.

Cheers - Phil.

[Ithoriel]

Techno,

Eastern Legionaries probably didn't look too different from Western ones to be honest. It's entirely possible that many legionaries wore mail (lorica hamata) or scale (lorica squamata) rather than the lorica segmentata of popular imagination.

Also possible some auxiliaries wore segmentata.

Found this McBride pic when looking for some Total War stuff just before coming to the forum. It shows a Sassanid horseman engaged with some Eastern Legionaries.  



Help any?

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I would also have said that 'Eastern' legionaries to the extent there were any real differences would be more mail or scale armour.

Edward

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Slightly scruffier? 

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?601401-Art-depictions At the bottom of pg1, press spoiler's button.

[Ithoriel]

For contemporary images of Roman soldiers it's hard to beat the metopes of the Adamclisi monument, even though they are now somewhat worn.

Type Tropeum Traiani Metope into Wikimedia and you get a list of all of the panels with a thumbnail.

Probably a more realistic portrayal of your average Roman soldier than those on Trajan's Column but somewhat more rough and ready sculpting.

[Techno]

Very many thanks  chaps.
I'll try and have another go at getting at Will's link later on as well ! (Jeepers ! the computer is SUPER slow this morning...at least for that particular site......I've got to get a new machine soon....AAARGH !)
Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

"Use your disc Phil!"
There's lots if roman resources on there...

[wonderer18]

As usual  , very highly detailed and simply brilliant .

Stuart

[Hertsblue]

You know I'm never picky, Phil,  but the guy second from the right appears to be armed with a Sidewinder missile.....   Were those bolts really that big?

[Techno]

I've based it on the length of the bolt that's sitting in the current ballista, Ray.
As with a lot of things at this scale, it's a bit chunkier (fatter) than I'd really like, to give Dave a better chance of casting it.
Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

You know I'm never picky, Phil,  but the guy second from the right appears to be armed with a Sidewinder missile.....   Were those bolts really that big?

In the Civil War, Caesar refers to ballista bolts 14 feet long if I remember rightly.

[Hertsblue]

Yes, it was the sheer girth of the thing I was remarking on mainly. I did think it might have something to do with the casting process. 

[Matt J]

some deft black lining when painting would narrow the shaft down.

My only issue with the crews would be they are all in the same position ie arms close to the body. Understandable with the crew carrying but maybe the office in charge could be more animated, pointing, shouting etc

(sorry I know I'm a picky b*gger)

[Techno]

That's one for a quick conversion, if 'the man' fancies an extra 'commander'. 
Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

My only issue with the crews would be they are all in the same position ie arms close to the body. Understandable with the crew carrying but maybe the office in charge could be more animated, pointing, shouting etc

Or swearing - in Latin, of course.

[Ithoriel]

Or standing with a broken vine stick screaming, "Cedo Alteram!*" perhaps?

http://www.erminestreetguard.co.uk/Officer%20Write%20Up%20Page%20CENTURION.htm

*Fetch me another!

[Techno]

I am NOT doing 3D speech bubbles ! (I can't write that small, anyway.)
Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But if you use you PC(Abacus), and a small enough font - yes you can.

IanS

[Ithoriel]

I was imagining an open mouth and an inscription on the base but ... practice makes perfect Phil