THE HYBORIA, PUNIC WARS PROJECT Part 1

Carthage Vs Rome

After what feels like forever, I finally have the 1st Roman Legion ready. This took so much more time for all the standard first-time painting issues like picking colors, learning the best sequence to paint them in, understanding what would need detailing and what could be simplified, and all the rest of those things. Then came the decals. On the other figures these take a short time to prepare and put on, but with the Romans it got complicated. First, Warlord only supplies eight of the Laurels instead of ten, which is the figure count. If I wanted them all the same on a Legion, and I do, I had to find some more. As Warlord does not sell these individually, I had to find someone that had these and was willing to part with them. Fortunately, I know a guy. It just so happened that the only person I know who is painting these had not used the Laurels and sent me his extras. Next was applying them. They come as a left and right side, so need to be lined up to look natural. I can usually get decals on ten figures in about fifteen minutes, but these took me a full hour. Ugh!!! Enough about that. The key question is was it worth it?

1st Legion Without Decals. 

1st Legion with Decals. 

The answer is a big YES!!! Here are closer, and better shots of the figures. 

Hastati and Principes (L&R)

Velites and Triarii 

Like with my other units these are all two stands, so that's sixty figures in those battle units. The opening picture shows you the units backs, with the Hastati in contact and the Principes in support. The next wave of figures is already started, with Spanish, Celts, the 2nd Legion and a number of horses already started. I'm not sure what will make it off the paint cue first, as I let my muse lead where it may, just so long as something is making progress. 

ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH - I'M BACK

 After losing my general miniatures Mk 2 blog nearly a year ago I felt it was finally time to start a new one, thus is born Mk 3. While I have not posted anything outside my Dog Wars Campaign blog, I have not been idle. For the past few years I have been saying, "No new project!", and by that, I mean less than a dozen. OK, so I have a bit of an issue when it comes to miniatures. I have rarely met a miniature I didn't like, or gotten a boardgame that I don't think, you know what would make this better? Miniature. With that said here are pictures of my latest projects over the past months. 

War in the Ohio, 1812. First Nation and United States

Punic War, Hyboria Wars Allied Spear. Warlord Epic

Carthage Sacred Band

Sacred Band Phalanx

Sacred Band Rear. The Side I Mostly See

New Plastic Quar

Quar Crusader Resin Tank and Fidwog Plastic Tank

Plastic 15mm Joan of Arc Spear and Halberds

Joan of Arc French Vs English

Clash of Steel - Cold War Gone Hot US Armor

Soviet Armor

Only four months into the year and already jumped to five projects. I wonder what I could accomplish if I stayed focused?

A little background on the Punic Wars / Hyboria. This is my oldest miniatures project. Begun in my teens when all I played was D&D and boardgames, plus it was a time I still built models. I picked up the February 1978 Battle for Wargamers Magazine. In it were two articles that caught my interest, Stuart Asquith's Battles of the English Civil War for Wargamers, and Tony Bath's Hyboria - The Campaign That Grew. After reading these I was hooked. From this point on I wanted to play with figures in everything. Within a short time, I had picked up Tony's Setting Up a Wargame Campaign and proceeded to start collecting Carthaginians while my key gaming buddy went for the Romans. Needless to say, I made every mistake you can, mostly being way to ambitious and the whole thing fell apart. Over the next forty odd years I have started and stopped this project at least a half dozen time, yet I continue to strive to make this work. More on this as things progress. 

I still own this and all the rest of Battle/Military Modeling they published.