Wednesday 6 April 2011

Italeri Late Imperial Legion Part Two

Here are a couple more completed units from the excellent recently released Late Imperial Legion.

As before, I have replaced their hasta spears with wire examples from Crusader Minatures, although the minatures are made from pretty hard plastic, the result of new toolings and improved manufacturing materials.

The detailing  and animation on all figures is excellent throughout and a pleasure to paint, I really like this set and hope they release more like it.





Two-figure archer skirmisher unit, three identical sprues provide a total of thirty-six  troops.


The fledgling legion... problem is, my attention is now swayed again onto three other distractions...oh well...

Regards,

Monty

17 comments:

  1. Fantastic! I thought they're 28 mm! Stunning!

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  2. Thank you, Yori - you are very kind mate...

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  3. Very good work, great paintjobs.

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  4. Cheers Angry - nice one...

    Regards,

    Monty

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  5. Nice figures and top painting Monty,
    So many great plastic figures out now.
    Cheers
    Paul

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  6. Fantastic, Monty! I wasn't sure about this set, judging from some negative reviews I've seen, but you have made them look brilliant. How well would they match with the HaT cavalry sets? I'm thinking they might be noticeably larger.

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  7. Excellent painting Monty! I really like your basing as well.

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  8. Wonderful paintjob! Thumbs up!

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  9. Terrific work mate!!!
    Did you use Army painters' Dip?
    T.

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  10. Hmmm, what can I say? All the other comments say it all.

    Smashing!

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  11. Thanks for the kind comments, chaps :D
    Thanks, they have Army Painter Strong Tone brushed on and have been dry-brushed before a matt varnish finish.
    Not sure about the Hat cavalry Alanus, sorry...Italeri also have Gothic cavalry though.
    Regards all,
    Monty

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  12. Whoops! Sorry Thanos, my phone's spell checker changed your name...apologies for the typo!

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  13. Yeah nice Monty, any plans for a game with those?

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  14. Thanks Al:D maybe sometime in the future...although (typically) my attention has drifted back to skirmishing...drat!

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  15. Nice work!

    Once upon a time I thought of 15mm (metal) as the only ancients scale

    Now 20mm plastics (+ painting like yours) and 28mm large plastics (Army Painter) are driving me to want to paint the big boys

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