Romano-British for Dux Britanniarum
Archers
This four-man Group of Archers is the last of the Groups that I’ve completed to date. I decided to do a fairly uniform colour scheme for them as I speculated that these might be semi-regular troops in the service of the Lord, rather than the militia of the Numeri.
The figures come with the bow hand and bow as a separate casting from the rest of the model. The socket on the left arm is not quite large enough for the cast pin at the end of the bow hand, so I drilled it out a little further using a pin-vice. Where necessary, a tiny bit of blu-tack was used to hold the bow hand in place in the socket whilst the superglue dried around it. This was required for the two figures holding their bows aloft about to fire. For the two holding them down, it was possible to just hold the bow in place whilst the superglue dried.
Most clothing of the time would have been wool and I wanted to find a colour mix that could represent the raw, undyed variety that would have been common at the time. I eventually settled on the following combination entitled “Raw Fabric” that I found in Issue 9 of the Painting War series of occasional magazines, entitled “Holy War”. I generally use Vallejo Model Colour paints, denoted “VMC”.
Base Coat – Khaki (VMC 70.988)
1st Highlight – 50% Khaki (VMC 70.988) plus 50% Beige (VMC 70.917)
2nd Highlight – Beige (VMC 70.917)
Four-man Group of Archers
Lloyd shot
Fabulous work on your figures @cuirass are the shields freehand?
Congratulations on the gold button.
Many thanks Zorg! No, definitely not freehand on the shields, Little Big Men Studios can take the credit for those. However, I do try and choose shield designs that will complement the colours on the minis and vice versa.
Thank you also for the congratulations on the golden button. I hadn’t actually watched the XLBS yet, so when I saw your comment I had to tune in and eagerly fast forward to actually see that it was true!