Onward Christian Soldiers

A long time between posts!

As part of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge I've painted up a command stand of Newline Designs Romans. I've painted up the infantry commander and his retinue as an extra infantry stand incorporating a command element, so that it will add its strength to the infantry line, but acts as a command bonuses to those units around it.

As befits a commander, I've given his bodyguard inspirational Chi-Rho designs to their shields so that all know that God is on their side!

Newline Legion

I've been a bit quiet on the Roman front, what with all my attention devoted to the Royal Navy over on the other blog. I've been chipping away gradually, and here's the result!

I've got another of these stands to go and am planning a mixed Italeri/Miniart stand as well. While I quite like the detail of the Newlines, I'm used to the variety of poses you get with plastics. These look like a group of robots in comparison!

First Newline figure

This is the first of the metal Newline Designs figures assembled and painted. I've painted up 2 more, but this is the only one with shield and spear attached.

Compared to the Miniart plastics, this was a dream to paint; the details are crisp and precise, not like the plastic figures where detail disappears and you're left to fill in the blanks, especially around the faces.