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
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17 comments:

  1. Yori6 April 2011 at 21:50

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

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  2. Monty6 April 2011 at 22:01

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

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  3. The Angry Lurker6 April 2011 at 22:02

    Very good work, great paintjobs.

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  4. Monty6 April 2011 at 23:10

    Cheers Angry - nice one...

    Regards,

    Monty

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  5. Paulalba6 April 2011 at 23:37

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

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  6. Dux Homunculorum7 April 2011 at 00:29

    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. kingsleypark7 April 2011 at 00:35

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

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  8. mork69697 April 2011 at 06:50

    Wonderful paintjob! Thumbs up!

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  9. Thanos7 April 2011 at 07:01

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

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  10. Paul7 April 2011 at 08:39

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

    Smashing!

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  11. Monty7 April 2011 at 17:26

    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. Monty7 April 2011 at 17:29

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

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  13. Al8 April 2011 at 12:16

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

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  14. Monty8 April 2011 at 12:25

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

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  15. Beccas10 April 2011 at 07:59

    Great looking unit mate.

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  16. Monty10 April 2011 at 20:39

    Cheers Paul

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  17. Geordie an Exiled FoG14 April 2011 at 23:49

    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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