Greetings…
Last year my friend and fellow blogger David Bickley let it be know that he wished to reduce the size of his Late Roman collection…
I quite naturally jumped at the chance to help him… Thats what friends are for 😁.
A deal was done and an exchange agreed upon… 10:15… Warhammer World car park… Try and look natural etc…
Once David had made a clean getaway I checked out my loot…
A lovely collection of Wargames Foundry Late Romans…
Once I got home I examined my purchases… Given the amount of action these chaps have had they were/are in very good condition.
After some consideration I decided to give them a little bit of sprucing up…
The main thing I wanted to do was rebase them… This was initially because over time some of bases had started to warp slightly but also I felt it would … For want of a better term… Put my stamp on them (I know artistic egos get everywhere 🤣)
I decided to use a couple of 2mm bases laminated together to hopefully stop any future distortion.
While the figures were awaiting their new homes I also gave them new plastic spears (The rather useful ones from Fireforge Games), new standards , removed and spruced up the shields and brightened up any paint that was starting to look a bit worn…
The shields were either repainted , tidied up or given new transfers…
The standards were simply replaced with fresh versions of what was originally there but on plastic poles.
My method for brightening up the paint was to match up the colours the best I could and simply give the area in question a thin glaze of 50% colour and 50% Citadel Lahmian Medium.
None of this titivating took very long… The thing I didn’t want to do was to start fully repainting anything.
The final thing I decided to do was to place the figures more or less in the positions that they originally were.
Here are a couple of finished units…
These fellows with most likely be used as Goths…
