Started on the rest of the gladiators and lions tonight. I have get them finished by tomorrow night.
I also managed to get the base coat painting done on the arena.
Once dry, it will be dry brushed and then individual rocks picked out. The wood will be a greyish colour.
Well this took about 3 hours to get sorted. I decided to do 4 sets of cards to let me allow 4 players at once.
Really pleased with the results. I was going to laminate them, but that will take time away from sorting out the arena.
My life would have been easier if I could have printed on both sides rather than having to do a side fold type which was then glued together.
I will probably sit them under a couple of heavy books to flatten them a bit more. I decided to decorate them with original mosaics. Each player gets a different set.
Well this half dozen are almost finished, still 3 lions and 3 medium types to get finished too.
So from left to right we have:
Laquearius
Retiarius with a spear and rete rather than a trident.
Standard Retiarius
Sagittarius
Velite ( or possibly a venator/bestiaries or even a noxii (cannon fodder)
And the last one…. errrrr he is a parmularius as he is carrying a small shield, but after that is anyone’s guess. He isn’t a thraex as he doesn’t carry a sica, or for that matter wear a helmet. If he had a curved blade in his shield hand it could be argued that he is a scissor. As it stands he is a medium gladiator.
Working on the dais tonight.
Wooden floor and expensive Persian rugs. The rugs (if full size) would have cost me £3000+
Still a load of work to do before Saturday, the time is taken up with waiting for the PVA to dry. I am still waiting on the internal palisade to dry. The carpet on the raised stones is to be draped over, the seat will be covered with cloth and if I have time- cushions.
Update:
I decided to add a stone face to the front wall rather than timber.
Slow progress indeed. With working on the arena at home and trying to paint at work (people forget I am allowed a lunch break) with the phone going and people wanting me these are taking forever.
To be honest though, there is really only the metallics to do and the weapon shafts hair and nets washed and highlighted. I don’t think I am going to bother painting in the eyes. Once these are done I have a Hopolomachus, a few lions and a Dimacherius to finish. All before Saturday.
Managed to get a bit more sorted out tonight.
I have built the palisade on the inside of the wall as well as a pair of gates. I also knocked up some stone steps to reach the dais.
I have to wait until tomorrow to carry on as I want the palisade to be completely dry before going onto the outer wall. To be honest I will probably use either double sided tape or a hot glue gun.
I managed a smidgeon of painting at lunchtime. A colleague had a printer problem. And that was that…
As you can tell, Gladiators are my next big thing, well actually they have already been a thing for years. Now as mentioned on a previous post or two Ludus Gladiatorius comes with absolutely everything you need to play the game. But for the Games day I decided to make a simple provincial arena.
This is being made out of 10mm extruded polystyrene. For speed I decided to do squares instead of hexagons.
This will have an internal planked wall (and possibly external) the gates will be under the dais at the back. To be honest for speed I haven’t really bothered with a way in, but this may change 🤣.
Regarding Ludus Gladiatorius. Doug from EM4 replied to my email stating that LG II is sold out and there aren’t that many of LG left either, but that a new version was in the pipeline with ‘lots of goodies’.
I will most certainly be waiting for it to come out, You can never have too many gladiators 👍.
EM4 has loads of good stuff at really good prices. It is well worth giving them a look for both Painted and unpainted figures.
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Pre-painted_Miniatures.html
Yippee, I have the second set of the rules and it does indeed have a lion and a retiarius, not to mention a venator/bestiarius an amazon and a poor condemned slave.
Once again a big thank you to EM4 who gave me access to the Yahoo group and allowed me to download the LGII.
The retiarius type will be useful for my Laquearius types armed with a lasso and a whip.
My Ludus will now be able to field a wider range of types than before.
I cracked on a bit with these. I really do like the poses of them, however I think you can only get them from Old Glory in the states.
I only ever bought the lights and mediums, but never ever got round to getting some heavies. I will have to see what else is out there in terms of figures.
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