More Romans

I've made some good progress on the Romans for Zama. My box set arrived from Forged in battle so I set to work on the 2 legions I still require. First up is the 2 units of velites, 1 for each legion. These are slightly chunkier than others in my collection, but I really like the poses. For shield colours I went for a plain dark red for the 5th legion and a pale blue with some white shields for the 6th legion.

Next up was the Triarii, each legion would be a single base which I will combine to make up a unit for Midgard.

Triarii of the 6th legion

Triarii of the 5th legion

Combined Triarii for Midgard

The other Roman unit I completed was the Hastati for the 6th legion. These are mainly Forged in battle with a few from Essex miniatures mixed in. Despite the Essex figures being slender they have mixed in well.

Hastati of the 6th legion

I have also painted up the Princeps for the 5th legion, but ran out of time to get the bases finished. I did though use a few of the spare figures for a couple of heroes/commanders for Midgard. These include Scipio himself.

Scipio on the left

I haven't just been painting Romans. I managed to complete the last of the African spearmen for the Carthaginians. These are now at 6 units.

So looking at what's left for Zama. I need one unit each of Hastati, Princeps and cavalry to complete the Roman contingent. I have the figures just need to get painting. For the Numidian allies I need three more units of light cavalry and two units of peltasts, these figures are currently on order.