2mm Strength & Honour
Basing Romans
Bases are 120mm x 60 for all units except Roman Legions who are 80mm deep due to their Triple Axis formation.
The label materials arrived. Metal strip 12mm wide, 5m long with matching magnetic strip. Both with self adhesive sides. They were found on Amazon. This double pack was cheaper than the magnetic strip on its own.
The metal strip was cut into 100mm lengths. I needed tin snips for this. Each base gets a strip stuck onto it, then the remainder of the surface is covered in PVA and dipped in sand. Once this is dry then a Woodland Scenics bended turf mix is applied, the recipe used is here.
Painted cohorts are cut away from the supports and then stuck onto the flocked base with PVA. The bases are stacked on top of each other so the weight helps hold the models in place while the glue dries.
Labels were designed and printed in Word and stuck onto the magnetic strip.
The stark white labels are a bit intrusive. A quick Raw Umber ink wash and they will tone down nicely.
That’s better. The green Auxilliary unit had a gold drybrush to indicate bronze helmets rather than the iron the blue unit have. Even close up they look pretty good, not that my eyes are good enough to see them this size!
They look great. Really must get mine started
Yes you must 🙂 I’m looking forward to seeing how you get on. I’ve never done anything this small before so I’m hoping you have some ideas or techniques that I can “borrow”.
No original ideas unfortunately but I’m going to do something similar to this http://steelonsand.blogspot.com/2022/05/2mm-antonine-miniatures-painting-and.html
I’d be interested to see what you think of using the paint pens. The Atonine blocks would suit them as they have quite pronounced dots for heads abd shields. The 3D prints are a bit finer and I’m worried about them breaking if I’m too rough with them. Looking forward to seeing your results.
Hopefully get to it all next week
I’ve never used paint pens myself so will be a bit of a learning curve
The 3d printed stuff will be similar to the irregular miniatures blocks which I painted in a similar method to yours. I found a very thin enamel black wash just to darken in between the figure rows helped make the figures stand out but I’m sure a thin soft or dark tone wash from AP would give an identical look and be much easier
Looking excellent. In game terms how big of an army is this? Enough for a game?
Thank you. This is enough for a game. These four units are the core requirement for a Principate Roman army and also the main units needed for the Watling Street scenario which we’ll be starting off with. As you might expect the Celts need lots more units, there are twelve bases in their Watling Street force and their core army list has five bases.
Brilliant work @zoidpinhead an the next mission do it again at 28mm ?
If I can find a table the size of a football pitch then maybe 🙂
Lol yup.