Roman life at the provinces town

[Xantippos]

Here they are, I finished them about two weeks ago, but didn't find the correct time to do the pictures!

They aren't easy to photograph, I am afraid that the pictures are a bit dark, damn it. Anyway, hope you like the set up. They really needed full sun, but I could not stand up to it, even if the weather forecasted a nice drop in the temperatures, it was about 35ºc plus and could not stand that for a good half and hour of soldier setupping!!

Anyway, these are Roman Peasants and Market life. Plus the single Strelets Senator , and a home made figure around. Houses are from a 1/87 Roman fort, there only to give a bit of ambientation.

This was the first time I tried to mix varnish with shadowings. In some I am afraid they became too dark, anyway, now I have more or less got the hang of it, one has to start somewhere . In this way, I save a step. These come about at 84 figures, quite tiring to do! this is the first set where I airbrushed most of the skin colour. However, due to not having mastered yet the airbrush, it was left at half and I finished the other half.

Edit - having troubles with uploading pics, will reupload as soon as possible

[CliosPaintingBench]

Hey mate, don't know how the image uploading is going, but one way I've found that can work is you can upload on imgur, then get the image source code or something, it's a link that looks a bit different, I think the format is:

https://i.imgur.com/SYR1Oru.jpg inside the image brackets on this forum. It's probably not the default url, it's a specific one, I usually experiment with draft posts before posting to see it if shows up. I've also found success uploading on wordpress.

[Peter]

You have a blog so it is very simple. Put the cursor on the picture, right mouseclick and then you see copy adress of picture. Then you have a code that ends on jpg. Use the IMG button here.

An example:

[Xantippos]

Thanks for the help . The question is that I usually uploaded everything onto my blog, and then copied the html to a html to bbcode converter, converted pasted and everything was ok, very effortlessly and the photographs are kept forever as they are in Blogger-Google photos .

The question is that, I migrated from Opera to Firefox lately, and now when I copied them they all appeared together without spaces, which makes it look bad and annoying on the eyes. Now that I've realized it, I've copied with Opera, here they are;

Edit; sorry, for some absurd reason it doesn't work. Maybe too many pictures. I think the best thing is that simply you look at them in my blog where they should appear big and spaced as meant to be; https://toysoldierchest.blogspot.com/20 ... inted.html

P.S: Sad when technology defeats you!

[Peter]

P.S: Sad when technology defeats you!

When you post pictures on your blog you store them on google pictures automaticly. If you do it like I suggested it is so easy to post pictures here.



I take these copies directly from your blog.

[Susofrick]

Very nice pictures, pity that the technology wasn't on your side. Are the houses selfmade?

[CliosPaintingBench]

Oh lovely pics! Yeah, tech can be a hurdle to overcome sometimes, but then we have friendly mods like Peter to help out.

[MABO]

Very nice pictures, pity that the technology wasn't on your side. Are the houses selfmade?

Houses are from a 1/87 Roman fort, there only to give a bit of ambientation.

[Xantippos]

Thanks for the comments . They have been left without separations in between, but anyway, here I post them for the simplicity of it, will take care to post it correctly on the next time!

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[Peter]

Fantastic!

[Santi Pérez]

Great diorama with lots of figures, each one representing very well its specific role in the whole. It's nice to see an ancient world non-military scene. The best of all is the very very natural terrain, Xantippos.

Santi.

[Chariobaude]

this is funny, i'm precisly building my own (late) roman town. I tried paper models, but i stopped almost immediatly : i don't "feel it" with my minis... Your dio is very nice because of natural terrain and (a lot) of figurines you painted well, but i never succeed in it.

So i bought a couple of resin house (there not many roman house in 1/72 !!) , then searched for monthes/years some conflix sets, tried (successfully) the fredericus rex references, but now i decided to build my own buildings... It will takes time, but the nicest side of that challenge is to try it with my childrens !

For the moment, my city when displayed looks like that :

PS : i just finished today a nice bridge from BUM with will be very usefull !

[Michael Robert]

Hello Xantippos,

nice display of Roman townlife. The "natural" settings makes it quite special and interesting.
Just last week during my holidays we visited the remnants of a Roman city close to Mayenne / France, former Noviodunum, now Jublain.
Not a lot is left, but you can admire the Roman architecture with its very rectilingual and practical/sober design. Actually very modern also - just like Bauhaus, functional, practical, no chichi (don't know a good English expression for that).
Concerning references for models of Roman buildings I remember the series done by the today very rare Paul, one of the early members of this forum. You should be able to find them by searching Paul and "roman town".
Like your work - great spirit
Some close-ups would be nice to see the individual scenes

Cheers
Michael

[Xantippos]

Many thanks to all to stop and comment by .

Chariobaude, your city is very wonderful . I love the roman triumph arches. The wall seems a bit from a desertic city, but very nice nevertheless. As I have limited space, I simply keep all the houses, trees, walls, etc, in a box and take them when I need them for a wargame . I don't have many compared to figures; but they take a lot of space, and I always prefer to paint figures, or model some, or buy more figures, before getting into dioramas! but certainly I should make some. My ratio of soldiers-dioramas must be 500 figures to one building!!

I was at the point of building some roman house just to take pictures with them, but then I remembered I had these paper houses .

I was walking the other day round Mdina (I live in Malta) and admiring the old walls, which are in a good measure roman. Question is that here, even if some remains stand, they are done with the local rock, so only fit as for the north african roman style!

Will try to take some studio inside pictures so figures can be better appreciated .