Thursday 24 September 2020

15mm Republican Roman Velites

 The next bunch of figures off the production line are thirty-two elements of velites, the highly-skilled light troops of the middle to late Republican Roman era:











The figures are Xyston with four poses in each pack, wearing a variety of headwear:











I was initially confused as to what one of them was, until I looked in the Osprey Republican Roman book and realised it had been modeled on a badger, as shown on the figure on the left below:



















Quite a few of the Xyston figures appear to have been based upon the Osprey depictions which makes the job of painting much easier. As for the figures wearing the wolf skin, I mixed these up to indicate wolves and foxes, just to provide a bit more variety:












I am pleased with the overall result and, at three points an element in DBMM, expect that a large proportion of these will make the table at some stage:

Next up some leves, which are essentially the earlier version of the velites.


8 comments:

  1. Lovely looking velites! I always liked them as a troop type, how many periods of the Roman Republican srmy are you planning on doing?
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain. I should have enough troop types to span from (in DBMM terms) the early Camillan army through Polybian and up until the Marian reforms, which include Pompey and Caesar. Really all just variations around a theme with a few different troop types for variety along the way, although the Marian Romans are pilum armed which meant doing additional legionary figures.

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  2. Super work, Lawrence! You are churning out Romans at an unbelievable pace. This army will be HUGE and quite an impressive sight when all arrayed for battle.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan. I got a little bogged down in the middle of the project, but am starting to get up a head of steam again now I'm on to a bit of variety. I also took an a fair bit of study this year and am hoping to break the back of that over the next few weeks which should also free up some more time.

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  3. Handsome units Lawrence, well done!

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    1. Thanks Phil, and a half dozen or so more to come on this project, although the end of it is now in sight.

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  4. very fine looking velites; with the usual shortfall of Roman cavaklry, they often have to pick up some of the slack!

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    1. Thanks Peter. They can also pack a bit of punch, even given their skirmish status.

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