Foundry Roman Legionairies

Marching off the painting table and mustering to the eagles this week are eight 28mm Roman legionaries from Foundry.  They are sculpted wearing mail shirts, so they don't have that classic segmenta lorica look of Romans in the films, but I think they look well enough, and from what I understand, there would be a variety of armour types in the same legion.

As I noted in a previous post, there shields are hand painted.  Sometimes seeing another painter's work, in this case a far better painter than I, provides inspiration to say "I could try that" and I'm glad I did rather than try to find shield transfers that would be the same size as the Foundry shield blanks.   The results are a bit uneven, but I have another 24 in the painting queue to practice my skills on!

Another decision that I made while painting was to give them simple linen shirts, unlike the film Romans who always seem to wear the brightest red fabric even though they're grunts.   I like the "warriors for the working day" look.  I did make a concession to the movies by giving them red neckerchiefs.

These are the first proper legionaries that I've added to my Roman force, all the other figures thus far are auxiliaries.    It will be interesting to see how some rules, like Hail Caesar or Three Ages of Rome, rate the difference.   In a build your own army points system, like Midgard, I think you'd rate them as Heavy Infantry, but not sure they would have any better armour rating than auxiliaries.   Bears thinking on.

Thanks for looking and blessings to your brushes!

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