Ordinary shieldwall unit Romano British 1

 Here is my first unit for my Romano British force,planned for Dux Bellorum but I'll probably use them in a Midgard game. They're from a massive lot of Black Tree design infantry figures I picked up second hand at Salute and Colours a few years ago. I've painted the Saxons,Irish and Picts and some of the Late Romans but I'm finally getting to the Romano British. Nice characterful sculpts, the rank and file were primed in Halfords khaki, given a wash of GW agrax earthshade and then some browns,flesh,lead belcher(steel) and a tiny bit of colour here and there , the command figure is more flamboyant and his no 2 ( who is a Foundry figure on a small mound because he's tiny next to the black tree figures) is somewhere between the two, they've been substantially done for ages , I just couldn't work out how to do the shields. In the end I drew a variety of designs in pencil and painted a few of the chi rho designs but the rest were done with paint pens my nephew gave me, when he decided they weren't for him. I have to say they're great and I will keep these in my arsenal going forward,not entirely convinced about the green but I'm not about to change it, another couple of shieldwall units on the desk and some archers.

I'll use these as Romano British and happily add them to my late Romans to give me a bigger force, this is the start of Arthur's army, I've got some footsore cavalry and command coming up,  I've still probably got enough figures to do another Romano British force, Vortigens maybe? Wouldn't mind a Welsh army too and have started them too. This is the first non Napoleonic figures painted this year, next up Napoleonics, Dark Ages figures or some terrain, maybe some Dark Ages terrain?

All the best

 Iain