Futuristic Roman from Heresy Miniatures

February 13, 2012 by brennon

Check out this Sci-Fi Roman from Heresy miniatures, expanding the empire on a planetary scale. Here is the pretty awesome looking Arturus...

If anyone remembers the children's TV show Aquila, this is what I imagine the Roman who piloted that craft looked like. Probably a whole lot more interesting than the reality. Would be interesting to see what conversions could come out of this miniature.

What do you make of him?

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chaoslord93

13 years ago

looks strangely familiar especially in the company of “emily lake” and “nerdlord”. its lovely to see some doctor who mini’s 🙂

mecha82

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13 years ago

That would be awesome.

cazboab

13 years ago

It puts me more in mind of Caesar’s legion in Fallout new vegas, especially that pistol.

thc303

13 years ago

Romanesque IG officer anyone? The pose is perfect and while giving a Roman centurion a pistol is anachronistic and pretty original, note the power line running up the sword blade…

I wonder how Warlord Romans would look with lasguns, that might be interesting. Certainly their armour (Lorica?) would work as flak or carapace armour.

brennon

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13 years ago

Could certainly make for a very individual looking Imperial Guard faction. With the right paint scheme it would work very well.

BoW Ben

majordutch

13 years ago

It just looks like a Roman Legionnaire with a gun. He’s even got sandals on. They need to use the inspiration of Roman soldiers to inform the design of the armour; as James Cameron did with his Colonial Marines in Aliens. If you don’t, you just get what looks like “a Roman with a gun”. I know there’s a subtle power line on the sword to make it look like a powered weapon, and he does have sleeves and trousers, it still looks like they took a Roman model and put a gun on him. Maybe he could have had shin guards/knee pads and lost the leather thongs, or had wargear hung/attached to them, to make them a sort of utility belt. They could have given him boots that had a criss-cross pattern on them, maybe in sections that resembles the criss-cross pattern of the sandals straps.
I think there’s a lot more they could have done with this model to make it an interesting futuristic version of a Roman Legionnaire, if they had asked themselves “What would a futuristic Roman soldier look like?”. Here, the answer seems to be ” He would have a gun”. 😛

hedwerx

Reply to majordutch

13 years ago

They are basing him off of a character in a popular redo of a classic British sci-fi.
In one episode, he walks onto a mechanoid battleship wearing full Roman armour.

Simply explained, He’s a guy who gets erased from history, and then re-incarnated 2,000 years before he was born, as an automaton posing as a soldier in a Roman Legion posted in England. He’s part of a trap for the main character, which in turn is built from a sub-character’s childhood memories. once the trap is sprung, he is left to guard an alien artifact for almost 2,000 years underneath a popular Neolithic site in England.
After that it starts to get a little complicated, and far fetched.

Its weird (or under-thought) if you view it outside of context. But if you recognise where the inspiration comes from, then it makes more sense.