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2mm Strength & Honour
Painting a Roman Legion
Now that we’re up and running with the prints I’m following Project Wargaming’s 2mm Painting Guide. He was painting Persians but the basic instructions will do for Romans. The steps are:
Mount a legion’s worth of prints on a card. Here we have one double sized cohort for Cohort 1. 9 regular cohorts and one tiny legate and officers.
Get a big soft brush and slop on red speedpaint all over.
Let it dry. Then focusing on the left had side and lower legs, dry brush on a bit of flesh. I also brush at random some small patches across the heads but I’m not sure this is visible on the final models.
Next we’ve got armour. Most visible on helmets and shoulders so a dry brush across the tops is sufficient.
Now a relatively good narrow brush and a straight line of solid red across the front of each block covering all of the shields. A few quick dabs onto shields on the right hand edge too.
Finally cover the whole block in a fairly heavy coat of brown ink with the biggest flat brush I’ve got. I used Liquitex Raw Umber but any ink or wash will do. Ensure you cover all four sides as well. Instant shading.
Tap the card firmly on the desk to work the was right down between the figures and into the supports.
It will be dry in a day or so. Next to basing.
Looking good so far. I’ve been looking at S&H cos it keeps coming up in my youtube recommendations though I suspect it would be at 6mm if I ever try it. 2mm just doesn’t look fun to paint to me, how are you finding it?
Thank you, I think that painting them like this is incredibly straightforward. It does take a total change of mindset though to paint a unit rather than thinking of them as a collection of individual miniatures but I seem to be coping. I’m sure I can get them looking a bit more like massed humans but I’m very hppy with the current results and can’t wait to get them based. I’ve got the bases here, just waiting on some metal and magnetic tape to make the interchangeable unit labels.