I know this video is a couple of years old, but I'm having something of a bad day and decided to watch some of your painting videos as they help to ease my migraines. I love the scheme you've chosen for your legionaries, not least of all because it was inspired by the Rome TV series. On that subject, did you know that you can get Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo miniatures from Warlord games, and that they fit perfectly with the SPQR Roman legionaries? I've had them on my desk for years, with Pullo all enthusiastically charging into battle, and Vorenus looking perpetually annoyed by how dusty and cluttered my desk is. Roman history is my speciality, so I'm always pleased to see Roman stuff in any form. I really need to paint up my own legionaries when I feel up to it, but in the meantime your videos will doubtless inspire me.

He is not having it! LOL! Just fired my shrink - this is true therapy.

Wooaow... she is definetly more talented than me... well done... great job..

Wow, I know that it's been 3 years, but I just discovered your videos. You are an awesome painter. Loved this video, and I just subscribed to your channel. Cheers!

My favourite geeky ladies continue to impress with an inclusive approach to mini choices. You keep it coming, you're doing a fabulous job and, with most groups, I'm embarrassed to admit that I take a fatherly/grandfatherly sense of pride in how our community has grown. Keep the videos coming ladies. You're rocking it :-)

I really like how you show your actual brush techniques, great job!

I’ve really come to enjoy your videos. I’m taken back to high school and all the days and weeks on end (especially during summer) playing RPGs. I always wanted to use minis and especially wanted to paint them, but we were relatively poor, so getting all the supplies was just out of reach. Thanks for the memories!

Oh wow, that shield is so regal! He's so smol,it must've been so rewarding to paint and get it done so perfectly! :D It's exceptionally refreshing to see some down to earth stoic minis being painted to perfection over the (admittedly fantastic) over the top GW minis! I picked one of my Lord of the Rings minis to paint whilst I watched this :) Thanks Naomi for keeping the variety fresh :D

Roman Shields are usually portrayed as being painted Madder Red but it is theorized that each Cohort of a Legion painted their shield a different color so they could be identified on the battlefield. There have been some fragments of shields from the Imperial period that were green and some that were red.Little is know of the painting of shields from the Roman Republican period which the TV show was based on and the figure you painted is meant to represent. So its anyone's guess.

💜 great painting work! Wow Now the miniature looks so life full

This was very helpful. I recently began painting 28's again after a few years of exclusively doing 15's and didn't want to make a mess. It's definitely a different technique. Your instructions are excellent, you are a great instructor with a very nice voice. It's a pleasure to listen to you and I love your accent.

Now that I see you paint historical minis, I am so glad I subbed your channel! I really do enjoy GW subjects, but historicals are my faves, especially classical antiquity and early Middle Ages. Please keep it up!

HAIL CAESAR! Awesome painting Naomi! I still think it's GENIUS to have that mixing ball in the paint pots...saves you a bit of money by keeping the paint fresh and you don't have to buy anymore for a while. Great stuff!

Very helpful, it gives me a point to work from and a level of quality to strive for.

I see you cut the "feathers "on top of the helmet. Seems accurate especially for Gaul wars like in Alesia where I saw some reenactors two weeks ago imho.

Looks freakin awesome. Got yourself a new subscriber ;) lookin forward for more painting guides!

"I am Spartacus!!!" Looks good... only another 99 to paint for that army you need, yeah? :D

I just got some hail cease romans I really enjoyed the video very helpful

Truly outstanding!

When i was smaller i used to collect the small figurines and paint them too. On the fourth of july 🇺🇸 i would blow my figurines up pretending it was a real battle lol 😂 . That was so much fun. You are an excellent painter 👩‍🎨. I love these artsy tutuorials.

Good Paintjob :)

A Very nice paint job

He's holding his sword but he still has a sword in his scabbard! lol Brilliant video - I'll be using this as a template for my SPQR set

When you first painted the chain mail I thought "Wow that's to dark". But he really came out awesome. Mad painting skills. Also when you said time to let him dry and the video didn't immediately pause I was totally expecting a time lapse of paint drying and I was gonna be rolling laughing. lol. Great video!

Nice work! Thank you! I love it!

Very nicely done! And so fast! Always took me hours to paint a figure. I always wanted a Roman Army to battle with! I stuck with WHMR medieval instead! Love your videos!

Great job, now for the rest of the cohort! Really, looks good.

Fantastic work!

I swear to Dog that I was going out for some woodworking supplies, but your video came up and now after some amazing unboxing ones, I have to paint. Thanks!

Great paint job. I love the dark red shield. Seems a lot more realistic. I have some Victrix Romans, this have given me the push to paint them.

I had a friend some time ago; he worked for the planning department of Will County, IL. He was happily married, but he was an insomniac, so his entire basement was, painted historical figures, dioramas, and such things (hundreds). So, because he was a client, I bought the french foreign legion (with a Gatling gun?). We would all get together in his, extensive basement for games..I really miss those times..Thank you for being crazy like my friend

that is one cool heroic roman, well done

I wish I would had a daughter. Like you two. Keep up the good work.

Nice work !

Watching a video of an interview with a Roman re-enactor recently. He did say that the tunic was more likely to be a natural linen colour. Simply because dying the cloth would be to expensive . This has a ring of truth to it.

Nice, I just picked up some Roman minis. No idea what they are from but they look awesome. Thanks for the tutorial.

MY brother and I painted military miniatures for years. nice paint job, only 956 left to go (that's counting the Gauls too)

you helped me paint my 40k Orkz tonight. A nice fleshy blueberry shade. Thank you!

"Drakas, something more cheerfull!"

Oh, Lordy! I’m an artist that discovered you recently, because of your copyright issues. Your art medium would absolutely test my patience. Your work is beautiful. I appreciate all artists and their work but this is clearly a painstakingly difficult genre. Kudos. I’m subscribing.

Thanks Naomi! xo

Just discovered your channel Awesome!

Good job!

A thought for future figure painting... base coat them in a dark color (even black). This way, when painted over by the specific colors, a pseudo-shading job will already be in place.

Hello! Very nice work... Interesting to see you combine Contrast paints with Regular Acrylics, (on the Scutum) it gives a really nice, subtle 'aged' effect. (This was helpful to me as I'm finding Contrast on its own a little too 'stark' for the looks I need...) Very easy on the eye... (The MINIATURE, I MEAN!!!) xx SF (Sheesh!)

Nice job on this mini. Subscribed...

Very nice I have tons of old glory Republican Roman Legionaries painted up.

Well done! He is very Romanesque! lol ;)

very impressive

Very nice! Curious if you ever did more SPQR videos? I don’t think I see any. Thought the Roman painting might have been followed up with a Celt painting video. Thanks.

great video...can you do one on the Gauls???

Great Job!!!!!±

You make it look so easy! I might try and have a go at it but I’ll probably make a dogs dinner out of my first attempt.

Fantastic video. It took me a few minutes to realise what was different about your painting style, then it hit me. Like me you are left handed and I'm so used to Watching just righties paint!! All the best folk are left handed, keep up the fantastic videos. Your accent is also fantastic, where about are it from?

Really should paint mine.....

13:05 any color goes for shield facings, TBH; pick what you prefer for your unit. While it's not impossible for shields to have been faced with tanned leather, the vast majority of shields were covered with linen or some other textile that was fixed in place with hide glue and often either lacquered or painted. Sometimes even painted brown or beige too. So even if it wasn't covered with rawhide, brown and beige works. But you wouldn't use tanned _leather_ for shield facings though, nor as a primary material for armoring in general. Rawhide is much better and also much cheaper to do the same job, so there's no point in paying extra for an expensive tanning process which makes the material worse for the intended purpose in armoring.

Skin looked very dark at first but I was pleasantly surprised!

Do like the style of painting.

Always nice to have company while I paint. Almost done with my Eidolon. It came out great!

Cracking job, interesting step by step explanations!

I love her soft delicate voice

Do you have any tips for models with pre-moulded bases, such as this, to blend them in with the base proper?

Don't glue the shields on until the figure is painted. Much easier that way.

What got you interested in historic war gaming and miniature painting, Naomi?

Is that fyreslayer flesh a wash, ink, or thinned paint? It looks a little thin, which works quite well.

Why varnish before the transfer? I'm new to painting

@ 20:15 The Gauls had soap...

Que buen video 👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁👌👌👌👌👌👌

How did I miss this???

Nice paint job, that a victrix minature?

So glad I stopped painting figures years ago as I'd have thousands of them by now far to addictive in my opinion.

Are there slavic tribes to play with?

What is that slight accent I am detecting? It's stronger on some words and sometimes barely noticeable...

beautiful voice

anyone point me to a GW / Vallejo METAL colour compatibility chart ? (closest matches i.e. not exact is ok). I believe that VJ duralumin is close to GW Leadbelcher (maybe duralumin is slightly lighter).

omg this is perfect. when female beauty meets my favorite hobbie :D i´m happy

Please do not forget to cut the hilt of the sheathed sword they only had the one sword?

is the game any good?

I'm amazed you can do that without a microscope and a pair of microsurgery waldoes...

You should do ASMR videos ..... You'll have subscribers coming out your ears lol 😊

Salut la demoiselle et trop sexy et par rapport a certains peintre elle se met pas de la peinture partout

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Good Tutorial for Beginners and lazy Painters with low Skill

Stop making me want to paint things.

"Legionnaire" : French Foreign Legion. "Legionary": Roman soldier

fuckin cute, sounds fine, less and less clothes as the video goes on. I can't decide which figure looks better

SPQR is kind of garbage, get excited for Clash of Spears instead

I got 2 minutes into this video and my eyes and brain lost all focus. Why, you ask? If you are holding something to camera for us to see, for Christ's sake hold the damn thing STILL. Stop waving it around as though you have an auditorium full of people - the camera is your audience, so show the camera and hold it still.