At long last I'm able to get back to doing some painting for myself again. I have missed it! These are 20mm Republican Roman Principes from Newline Designs, and are the beginning of what will hopefully be several armies that I can use to play some ancients battles.
So far I've painted up two units of Principes and one unit of Hastati. It's a small start, but I'm pleased with the progress made.
I don't have any firm idea yet about what rules I'll use for games. No doubt I'll want to try a few, and I have a number of rulesets on the shelf. As such, I wasn't entirely sure what base sizes to go for, and after a couple of false starts I settled on something very similar to my Napoleonics, with 4 bases per unit. This should allow me enough flexibility to accommodate most rules, and I'll vary the number of figures per base depending on troop type. Six figures per base seems to look quite good for heavy infantry.
It'll be a while before I have enough figures painted to play anything, but for now I'm just enjoying the painting. And I plan to jump around a bit between the different armies in order to stop myself from getting bored.
Some Spanish Scutarii and Greek hoplites will be up next, and probably some Classical Indians after that.
