I can't stop thinking about ancient Rome - De Bellis Antiquitatis edition

We got our goal done yesterday but with today’s hobby time I wanted to get some further work done on the small detail items like the leather, swords, and bronze helmets. I brought out a few more shades of brown to break things up and I’m glad I did once the color got down on the models. Here is the current range.

Starting with the leather work I use Leather Brown and my fine detail brush to gently scrape some over the leather reigns of the horses. While the color doesn’t stand out much I’m quite pleased with the result and the shading tone should also help

Now to tackle a part I had been dreading, the sandals. At this point the brown was still a bit thin but that is what I wanted as I planned to use it more of a wash. Since the details are so fine on the feet I wasn’t going to be able to use the same technique on the sandals as I did on the horse reigns. While it still doesn’t look quite right again the Strong Tone and finishing the bases will clean up the areas where the Flat Flesh was over painted.

With the Leather Brown still out I do the scabbards, belts, and strappings. This fine detail work really helped make the figures look less messy and closer to being table ready.

After the leather I was still in the painting mood so broke out the Weapon Bronze to work on the helmets and other bronze bits. When I thought of the helmets I initially thought they were going to be iron but after looking at pictures it seems that was more of an imperial Roman thing. Bronzed up the helmets, parts of the swords, scabbards and the small front of the chainmail. This went well but took I think longer than the rest of the leather work. Finishing the last stick of figures was definitely a challenge but I’m quite pleased with the results.

I’m very happy with the progress and next items are the wood items, tunics, arrow fletching, horse manes, hooves, and then touch ups. I’m looking forward to getting those items done and moving onto basing. While not painting I’ve been doing research on terrain I will need to make for DBA. I’ll share what I’ve found in a future post focused on terrain.

I also have Gauls on the way with a few more Roman options. They are bonus to the initial project goal and since we still have months of time for the challenge I want to see how far I can get to have the two sides done, a board, and terrain done. Then perhaps a battle report, until next post everyone happy hobby time!