A glimpse into the Past

 

When your pregnant wife wants to use your main PC in the house for the afternoon, one must improvise and thus these two dudes were painted up. 

Back in January I picked up a couple individual Sprues of some Victrix Romans and Greek Hoplite warriors. Mainly for kitbash potential bits and great big shields. 

But my best mate is a history buff and into Wargaming too. So figured I'd get them to perhaps give a red hot go at building an army or force for Hail Caesar or some other historical game, whatever he'd have in store when we catch up to run some games. We've run some games of Hail Caesar in 10mm scale and they're a blast, but surely one must go bigger to 28mm. Especially with such cheap minis from Victrix and in such large quantities!

 

I wanted a minimalist paint job using only a handful of paints where I can, to reduce the brain space necessary for decisions. 

Both models were primed in a Crimson Red rattle can and then hit with a zenithal of a Desert Yellow.

I figured given both were from relatively dusty area's, the desert yellow helped give the feel of history and desert dirt and dust. 

I did a brief amount of googling to find a rough baseline image, especially for the shield that I liked or felt confident enough to give a shot at free-handing.

the bronze metallics were a mix of Vallejo Metallics Gold and Hoplite Armor Speed Paint, and the steel was as named by Vallejo Metallics. A Heavy Gold Brown was the Yellow for the shield and the Hoplite's garments.  AK Blood Red for the Roman's Robes and Cork for the skin. I did a Vallejo Turquoise for the Feather, but I don't like it, so it'll get repainted to a brown black colour.

 

The shield. That was fun! I traced in the lines with a light brown colour first to figure out placement knowing that it would make the patching over with yellow a lot easier. Once I was happy with the placement I went over them with a light grey up to white. I added a bit of AK Smoke Black around the outer edges of the design to try and add some emphasis to it as well as for the zigzags and banding in the middle. Some of it I'm less happy with but for a first go and breaking the slump of not painting, leaves me pretty pleased. 

 

 

I didn't wash these dudes down with anything, but would likely use a mix of Reikland Flesh and Agrax Earthshade to dull down everything. Then it'd be picking out some highlights here and there on skin or on clothing etc...Honestly though, for an army of these dudes, should I decide on one or the other, just the 4 or 5 colours and speed running would get them batched out, and looking decent. 

All in all for a quick hour or 2 of painting I'm pleased with these dudes and am keen to give a shot to painting a unit of them to rank up and have as a display or for slinging dice on tabletop with.