A Year and 7 Months! A 1/172 ancients project.
The Legionaries
The first picture is of the Legionaries from Caesar Miniatures. They are by far my favorite, despite being slightly smaller by a millimeter to their Italeri equivalents. This might not seem like much but it does contrast unfavorably in the army. Regarding style, I think the Caesar Miniatures has the most ‘roman’ looking of all the brands. Also note that the three units were built from just one box!
The second group are from Italeri, and they are the ones I like the least! They seem to be wearing mini-skirts!, and this kind of puts me off. The problem was that I had bought them and painted them up before I bought the Ceasar Miniature legionaries, so I was stuck with them. The four units were built from two boxes.
The last set of legionaries were from Zvezda, who are probably the best manufacturer in the scale. Their Romans are visibly larger and don’t look convincing with the others.
These were a late buy as I wanted to include the Testudos. In order to make two I had to do a bit of conversion work, but I think they turned out OK in the end.
The extra legionaries, I put on a base on their own and will use them as veterans, as the campaign allows you to upgrade one legionary unit to a veteran as an option.
They look great
Thanks.