28mm Early Imperial Roman Equites 1st Cohort - circa 193AD

 Hi there, I hope everyone is doing fine, I've come back to this blog after a 15 month long hiatus due to other challenges of which the current pandemic is just an additional problem to deal with.

Anyhow I'll be posting new work on here starting with a new Early Imperial Roman Army mostly using figures acquired from Aventine Miniatures. The inspiration was to copy my very first ancient army I built at school many moons ago but this time in 28mm rather than 15mm which is all I could afford as a kid. 

So here is my interpretation of an Early Imperial Roman Equites or Cavalry cohort heavily armoured and ready for battle.

 

 

 

Comprising 12 Heavy Cavalry of an Auxiliary Equites Cohort based on plasticard to Wargames Research Group 6th edition rules base sizes. The grass tufts are 4mm which I produce myself.

The figures were acquired from Aventine Miniatures over in Northern Ireland, Adam at Aventine is slowly moving stuff from his old website to a new website shop so not everything is available at the moment.

The next cohorts in this army will be a Cataphract cavalry cohort, an Auxiliary Infantry cohort, a Legionary Infantry cohort, an archer cohort and a General's command stand possibly the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus or Marcus Aurelius. I'm hoping this will be a good start to my collection. The Full army list with be presented at completion due to possible alteration in its compostion as the collection progresses.  

Over the weekend I'll be finishing off some 28mm World War 2 British command figures, I'll see how it goes.

All the best and stay safe :)

Best Regards, Peter

 

 

28mm Napoleonic French Generals II

28mm French generals from Perry Miniatures.

Just released a few weeks ago, I purchased these really neat French Napoleonic personalities from Perry miniatures Napoleonic range. I had to hit them with my brush just to see how they turned out, pictures below:

General Franceschi-Delonne

Marshal Lannes

General Fournier-Sarloveze

General Lasalle

General Pajol

General Pully

In conclusion: 

I think these are the most inspirational set of minis I've painted for a long time. Superbly animated poses and a real mix of uniforms. I just realised that a new British staff set is available from Perry so I wouldn't mind having a crack at that in the New Year.

What'll be next? I have two small 500 point biblical armies; New Kingdom Egyptian and Nubian from Wargames Foundry on the painting bench as well as hopefully upgrading my World War Two platoons, also there's the long delayed English Civil War project, as well some terrain, buildings and animals.

All the Best and Happy Painting,
Peter.

British Foot Artillery & French Line horse Artillery.

Below are the two batteries I've managed to complete over the preceeding weeks, a battery of British Royal Foot artillery and also a battery of French Line horse artillery for my Napoleonic Wargames Campaign.

The Britsh battery comprises 9 pounder long guns and a howitzer. The three models represent a six gun battery.

The french battery comprises 6 pounder long guns and a howitzer.

Based on plasticard with a fronatge of 60mm and depth of 80mm, the figures are supplied by Perry miniatures.

28mm British Foot Artillery Battery.

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28mm French Line Horse Artillery Battery.

 

Also I've finished the New Perry release of French Generals, so that will be the next upload.

Best Regards,
Peter.