Rebasing my Early Imperial Romans

[Fire at Will]

One of my projects for this year is to rebase my Early Imperial Roman army. It has seen a lot of use over the years so in addition to rebasing there are a quite a number of repairs to do.

First off are the cavalry, all Rospak hard plastic.


Unlike the Greeks I decided not to try swapping the arms around. Partly because I thought I might need the sword arms fort the infantry

[Peter]

They look nice Will!

[wilberforcefrog]

They look a very disciplined bunch to me!

[Fire at Will]

They look a very disciplined bunch to me!

Yes, by modern standards, much too uniform, but that was the norm back when they were produced

[CliosPaintingBench]

I really like the vintage look, yes they are uniform but there's a charm to them, the uniformity has it's own niceties.

[Fire at Will]

Finished rebasing the first 6 units of Legionaries


These were quite simple as I was reducing the unit sizes down from 24 to 16. The remainders will need more repairs and reworking to make complete units.

[Peter]

That's a very colorfull bunch of infantry! Nice shields.

[Fire at Will]

Continuing the rebasing, I worked on a couple of units each of bow and javelin armed auxilliaries. Each existing unit of 24 figures became a close order unit of 16 and an open order unit of 8.


All the figures are Rospaks who only produced two poses.


Luckily with these there was very little rework except a couple of broken javelins needing replaced.


If I need to use the figures in their old WRG 6th context as LHI, then I simply have to alternate the close and open order bases




Now I'm into the more serious reorganisation and repairs

[Peter]

I see a beautifull army growing!

[MABO]

Well said! Love the mix of colours!

[Fire at Will]

A bit harder work this time as I had to deal with the broken pilums and replace all the decals so that the units looked consistent.


The images for the decals were copied off the web and then scaled to fit the shields

[Peter]

Real colorfull army!

[Fire at Will]

I'm on a bit of the roll at the moment. These complete my Roman army rebasing project.


The HaT cataphracts didn't really need rebasing, but unfortunately it was a desert colour so it was not consistent with the rest. They are under scale compared to Rospaks, but on the battlefield in separate units it's not too noticeable


The commanders are old 25mm Minifigs, they are a bit too large/chunky. I wonder if there is anything out there more suitable? 28mm would be too big, maybe 3D printed?

[Minuteman]

These are all looking very impressive Will. I missed out on the Rospaks figures ( I was just a few, but only a few. years too young so never benefitted from collecting their ancients. The figures and poses look good for their age, although the lack of different poses does seem to 'date' them a bit. However, nice painting and re-basing.

As with your recent Persians, the shields of the legionaries look very good and the 'colour coding' is a good (and probably quite authentic) way of defining units on the table-top.

Just to clarify: these are being re-based for WRG 6th edition ancients rules?

[CliosPaintingBench]

The commander looks a little big, but good effort in getting everything rebased. I do like those cataphract models.

[Fire at Will]

These are all looking very impressive Will. I missed out on the Rospaks figures ( I was just a few, but only a few. years too young so never benefitted from collecting their ancients. The figures and poses look good for their age, although the lack of different poses does seem to 'date' them a bit. However, nice painting and re-basing.

As with your recent Persians, the shields of the legionaries look very good and the 'colour coding' is a good (and probably quite authentic) way of defining units on the table-top.

Just to clarify: these are being re-based for WRG 6th edition ancients rules?

No they are being rebased to look a lot better and be more flexible across a range of rules, the basic figure frontage of 15mm and depth of 40mm are still used. Currently we are gaming using Hail Caesar. But I still know some hardened 6th edition players so they have to be able to fight them if they can persuade me.