Last Roman Saga

I primed these models a while ago, painted up my first model with the transfer, took the picture and shared it.

I am happy with the result, but the more I looked at the stark profile of the thick puddle base they were placed on the base with, the more it looks just slightly off. I dropped a good covering of my brown flock to try and hide the step, but didn’t pack it in the join to any degree. I might have been able to just add more basing flock to disguise the change in height but I chose to tackle it with some ready made repair filler / plaster instead.

Not looking for perfection with the  plaster. Just enough so the miniature looked like he chose a slight rise / solid ground to stand on, not so starkly a plastic mini, on a thick puddle base stood on a 2mm plastic 25mm base.

My friend assembled these minis and picked some fun poses. This is their first non-GW historical game in some time, or perhaps ever, so cutting off puddle bases, (without risking cutting the feet off or deforming them) was not on his radar. Even though I have a lot of non-GW projects under my belt I still find removing models from the puddle bases a bit of a risky task. The slotter base and the hexagonal peg and hole on the base designs of GW bases are certainly a neat solution and avoid the extra steps I am taking to make the model feel in situ.

I like that these are reverse slide transfers. You place them sticky side down where you want them and then add the water to release the backing and remove it.

My friend seemed to like the idea of the warriors looking almost in uniform but appreciated that the concept of armies in uniform was a few years beyond the dark age.

I will stick to a selection of greens and reds and greys and black to give a semblance of uniformity. Clothes did tend to identify you as a group anyway because of the dyes available where you come from.

I have these eagle transfers and another symbol. I will use these to identify the different units so it’s easy to deploy on the table at a glance.