Picked these up for an amazingly low price of $A0.50 a figure from Tactics. Better still I was using a voucher my daughter had given me for Xmas. But best of all I have them assembled, painted and based and heading to the tabletop.
First with flash:
The archers I cut in two and repositioned, so they were firing over the heads or between the front rank (rather in the sidewards pose that looks rather daft).
The Essex codes are BZA 14 and BZA 15 (the latter being the archers).
I needed another unit to do justice to the Carrhae scenario I am working on.
When I was painting these I felt as if I was being a bit rough and ready, but seeing them magnified I am presently surprised.
My Roman expansion continues. This unit has eight figures preloved to which I have added seven more.
It's not all playing games on this blog, been also doing the hard yards in painting and basing these cute chaps. Three, maybe more were already painted, but the rest I did. I originally thought they were transfers on the shields, but now I see they were hand painted. Amazing work, but I didn't trust myself to try and replicate the work. These are a second line legion unit after all.
Three new units. One painted from scratch; one consisting of purchased already or mostly painted figures plus some additions newly painted by me; and one just needed basing.
These were figures I purchased before I made the big purchase. I am glad I am now making progress on getting them operational.
Having performed so well in their recent battles I decided to apply some minor TLC as well as seeing if I could trim back the bases' depths to my standard size. The trim worked okay and I also took the opportunity to add more flock. I originally thought these figures were from Old Glory, but now think they are Essex (DC1 Light Cavalry).
These were an 85% complete cavalry unit that came as part of a bigger purchase of unpainted and part painted Romans via a Facebook trading group thingy earlier this year. Finally some progress. One figure has been painted from scratch, I changed the position of the spears which required the plumes to be redone, one horse's tail had broken off and has been resecured and there were a few chips to the paint work to repair.
Very happy with the original paint work and pleased I was able to match it. Good luck picking out which figure is all my own work :-)
These came as part of another purchase and just need some TLC, specifically repairing some spears. I fixed up a few paint chips and added more flock to the basing, but otherwise they are as is.
I'm about to start on an early Roman army to match my Carthaginians. This is based on a DBA army I picked up from the late Tony Cooper, some spare figures from Simon and a purchase from a chap in New Zealand which I had the good fortune to find on Facebook.
Need to do some research, but I am sure I have at least enough for a Basic Impetus army.
The final batch of figures from the purchase of Stan's Austrians. Just fixed a few paint chips and based them. A rifles needed gluing to strengthen them (I hope it works). Three were badly broken and so were converted to standard bearers (with added flags of course - easy with a colour printer).
However, these figures are actually Grenz, but I will claim the depot outfitting these Hungarian infantry units ordered the wrong head gear or was commanded by an officer whose brother only made Grenz style shakos or had a warehouse full of the things and was desperate to use them.
Uhlan Regiment No. 1 Merveldt. These were part of a windfall, impromptu purchase from Stan. They required a bit of assembly, basing and repairing of a few paint chips, but I did little more than that (okay, I did change the sheepskin colour and painted the saddle cloth trim and did a little bit of work on the Czapka. These Essex figures are a challenge to fit on the Napoleon's Battles bases, but they are now ready for action.
Or more properly Hussar Regiment No. 4 Hessen-Homberg. These were part of a windfall, impromptu purchase from Stan. They required basing and a bit of TLC to repair some paint chips, but I also re-lifed them by redoing their shakos and adding a brighter green highlight to their jackets and same to their pants. While Essex figures are not my favourite, they have come up a treat! They join my other Essex Austrian Hussar regiment that I completed back in April and which can be seen here:
https://onesidedminiaturewargamingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2020/04/austrian-hussars.html
