Legio II Augusta - Been painting slingers

[Centurion Dan]

Starting to take shape Dan, looking good and good to see WG forum running in the back ground, I'm not the only one then who has this on perminently when painting / building! Got Roman withdrawal today so have stopped foreign legion for a few days and started on the kneeling Roman line and western archers to go behind them (not sure how they'll work on the table top, not got that far yet)

It's normally either WG, Bolter & Chainsword or Heresy Online running in the background

For some reason, when you mentioned about the Roman kneeling line and archers, I now have a scene from Zulu running in my head but with the Brits being replaced by Romans. Something along the lines of - "First rank! FIRE! Second rank! FIRE!............"

[Centurion Dan]

Converted a Tribune yesterday out of a cornicens body, an Attic helmet and some bits I received from Biggus Dickus (cheers!)

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[Centurion Dan]

Also been glueing together a unit of Auxilaries. Picked up the metal ones for 4 quid on ebay - still in the blister pack!
Converted the Centurion from a plastic body with some spare bits and I've got another 3 plastic auxilaries to add.

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[Biggus Dickus]

Dan, they are very good...I'm particularly impressed with your Tribune.....and why didn't i think of making a centurion out of an Auxiliary body...another palm slap to face!!! it works very, very well, i've got a feeling we'll see a lot more of that type of conversion on here!
Very cool indeed.

[Centurion Dan]

Cheers! They were very simple conversions - had to adjust the neck on the centurion so the head would fit properly but that was probably the most challenging bit of the conversions.
I hope we do see more conversion work - sometimes thats the most interesting part of the hobby in trying to work out how it was done.