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| Another Roman cavalry unit, REC4. After this I'll do a unit of REC3 and 5 so that I've got a unit of all the Garrison cavalry figures. |
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| An earlier picture of this figure... |
So getting on quite well with the Romans - this phase needs a couple of units of light infantry and two units of cavalry to be comple, but the army itself will still need more auxilia and, possibly, another unit of REC4. Another possibility would be to give them a dedicated unit of Sarmations as well.
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| For those unfamiliar with the Trigan Empire (see Rob's comments on my last post) this was originally a comic strip series starting in the late 60s. There have also been various book/graphic novel versions, last one seems to have been in about 2020. This is my 1978 copy of the original hard back graphic novel. |
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| As for 'Shades of the Trigan Empire' comment itself, yes, quite heavily influenced by the Roman Empire, except it was set on an alien planet in the distant past and the Trigans themselves were 12 foot tall! |
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| Slowly getting on with the Roman cavalry. |
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| I'm treating these as Guard cavalry - this element is the general in purple. |
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| While this lot are from the unit. |
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| The entire unit... |
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| Not great photos I have to admit |
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| Here's one I painted and photographed earlier. About 20 years earlier... |
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| Officer |
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| Standard bearer |
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| And REC6 itself |
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| And another one I painted earlier... |
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| Most of the classical range horses don't have any markings on the base. This one does and is RECH6! |
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| As well as Romans and Newhaven I'm also working on various stand alone type figures. In this case I came across a War of the Worlds Tripod... |
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| It's from Minifigs/Matchlock and I think I need a couple more to make it up to three. Nice figures. |
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| Here with the on-going Newhaven build - in front of the park, graveyard to the left. Still working on those... |
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| Better idea of it's size compared to a couple of unpainted 20mm figures. The blue background is a prettyfied river - I've done A4 mdf sheets part water, part paved, to give a river front. |
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| Ran out of paint for the bases so basing the figures will have to wait until the new paint arrives... |
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| I don't have any specifically Auxiliary command figures so just picked out an officer and standard bearer that seemed reasonable. |
At the moment I'm painting a couple of cavalry units and some LI in wolfskins.
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| The basic model of Newhaven Park is finished with a few touches still to add. I keep thinking some of these tiles are a bit too bright for Newhaven. |
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| I've still got a playground to paint and other items are subject to change, but it's mostly there. I'm calling it Peabody Park - on the one hand, it's a Lovecraftian name, on the other hand it's reminiscent of the name 'Peasholme', a park in Scarborough. Peasholme Park has a definite wargames link... 'Naval Warefare Battle The park is home to the oldest continuously simulated battle in the country - a unique miniature sea battle named 'The Naval Warfare'. Taking place July and August each year this popular event has been a unique family holiday tradition since 1927' Seen it a couple of times - spectacular and well worth the visit. |
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| We usually spend a few days in Brighton every year - it's easy to get to and we like it. This year we stayed in an apartment next to the Royal Pavilion. The Pavilion has a cafe called The Pavilion Garden Cafe - which gave me the idea to put one in Peabody Park. The model itself virtually built itself - I got some thin card, tried fittied some balsa into the structure, then realised I just about finished making the thing! So I painted it up and finished it. Easy to make, gives me a good template for things like fairground/circus/Christmas Fair stalls etc. The other groundkeeper's shed isn't glued in - it's higher than the height of the wall finials so would make stacking difficult for storage. That shed is one I already had lying around and just repurposed. |
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| Gates are an issue. I would have liked using decorative gates for all of the entrances but they aren't cheap! So I used ones I had as part of bought wall set ups and just used plain balsa for others - I did the same with the church and cemetary. |
Had a couple of deliveries today...
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| Roads in the past have just been bought piece by piece. For this 20mm layout I thought 'let's do enough in one go'. Bought from War Worlds Gaming. |
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| Meanwhile, some accessories... tombstones, a funeral party and children's playground. Buildings may be cheap, but the accessories side is creeping up! Tombstones and playground being below the level of the wall finials will be glued down. By Langley. |
