Painting Romans and other Historical Models, & Applying their Decals and Basing!

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Жыл бұрын

In this video I show you how to paint the Romans that come in the Warlord Games, Caesars Gallic Wars Sets and the old Roman Invasion of Britain sets. In other words, Republican Romans and EIR.
But this technique will work equally well in paint any historical models, from 'swords and sandals' to 'horse and musket' periods.
Its a technique that will get lots of models painted up quickly to form the units you need for your Hail Caesar, Pike and Shot or Black Powder games.
The video is relatively long, as it is not only painting, but also covers varnish, applying decals and basing. Basically everything you need in one video!
I have primarily demonstrated GW brand Paints and Contrast paints but the equivalent products from brands like Vallejo or Army painter will work equally well.
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Пікірлер: 36

@WelshIron 9 ай бұрын

Great vid. I usually skip through painting tutorials but I watched the whole of this one and really enjoyed it, The figures looked great at the end too. Cheers.

@kapitihobbies9360 8 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@philRminiatures Жыл бұрын

Impressive and superb Romans, handsome decals!👍👍

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you liked them. The decals really are worth the effort to get right :)

@josedarkbringer2810 2 ай бұрын

Simplemente hermoso!!! Excelente trabajo!

@jimitubman8046 Жыл бұрын

I've spent the last year collecting Warlord EIR figures for my Roman civil war project and will be using this painting video on them.

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Good to hear Jimi thanks for that feedback, best of luck!

@weregeniegaming Жыл бұрын

I like the soundtrack. The Final Days of Rome by Two Steps from Hell is one of my Favorites. Very nice Video, quick table ready schemes, the kind I prefer.

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Yes well spotted, I found it when I searched "Rome" in Filmoras audio catalog, it seemed very appropriate to what I was painting! Glad you liked the video. Cheers Scott

@brianfpp540 Жыл бұрын

Have painted thousands of the ancient army 1/72 over my many many years of painting ministures. HAT do a wide and varied range that are quality moulds and nicely detailed..

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Oddly Ive always considered 1/72 plastics as 'kids toys' as I played with them endless as a 'rugrat'... plus the soft bendy plastic is a nightmare to trim and paint (YVMV)... I just like the 28mm scale for painting, I like the hard plastics and happy to work with older style metal figures, I just dont like the resins they have brought out recently as you cant scrape/file off the mold lines without getting a fuzzy burr you cant get rid... you have to slice the mold lines off removing bits of the model if youre not careful. Im not a fan of resin!

@pijonbutbetter919 Жыл бұрын

The metal beads on the imperial legionaries frontal groin area were to make noise while marching to sound more numerous and scary, Great video btw😊

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Well I didnt expect that, but thanks for the info, very interesting. Thank you very much.

@HO-bndk Ай бұрын

That's just a guess. Nobody really knows why they wore them. Contemporary sculpture implies that they might originally have been a gladiatorial costume item that was adopted by soldiers.

@norm977 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I am just about to start a 20 man napoleonic unit, so will follow this, particularly the tip of gloss paint first on the contrast. As an aside, my older ears have a bit of trouble separating sounds, so I like your narrative and I like the music, but struggle with them both at the same time.

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback... yes getting the audio right, is a bit of a fine balance, I'll try and do it better!

@MattVarnish1103 Жыл бұрын

well done I like that you did an EIR at the same time. The amount of upside decals I had to fix...... :)

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

I think EIR is what most of us visualise when you think Roman soldier, so good to include. Upside down decals... erm um yes, I blame insomnia and Sunday mornings! Buts thanks for letting me know Im not the only one whos done that! :)

@martinmelhoey1339 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. Very inspirational. Will you be doing a similar painting tutorial for the Barbarians?

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. If you would like that then certainly, I am busy building a unit of Celts at the moment.

@johnclarke9498 Жыл бұрын

That is a very informant video 👏i do my decals a bit different but well start doing them your way, looks easier, Good video 👍👍

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback John. Glad you found something useful in it :)

@toddjarman542 Жыл бұрын

That was awesome thanks for the video. I was thinking you haven’t put the microsol 😂😂 just a quick question . What paint did you use for the trousers on the British Zulu wars please 🥃🥃👍🏻

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

Thansk for the feedback, yes I was just teting to see if you were paying attention ;). Ango-Zulu British trousers, Im pretty sure it was GW Leviadon Blue Contrast (its a while since I did them).Once dry I then painted a thin cream stripe down sides then used GW Blood Angels Red Contrast on it. Cheers

@neilcook9088 11 ай бұрын

The "gold" should actually be bronze, which in the classical and early Dark Age period actually looked more like our modern brass. I always use Dark Star brass on my figures.

@Andrew-pp2ql 11 ай бұрын

What color do you recommend to provide a shading effect to the brass?

@kapitihobbies9360 11 ай бұрын

Yeah I just found the gold with shade and drybrush was satisfactory for my needs. You could obviously start with a more brass specific color if preferred.

@neilcook9088 11 ай бұрын

@@Andrew-pp2ql I usually paint army painter quickshade -soft tone or vallejo game wash -sepia over the metal area, and just wipe the areas that would receive the most light with a cotton bud to lift most of it off. When all is finished I spray a matte varnish over the whole model and then paint over the metallics with an acrylic gloss varnish such as warcolours gloss varnish but any acrylic gloss varnish will work.

@KramGnilrad Жыл бұрын

Any restocking of deep cut mats soon? Thanks

@kapitihobbies9360 Жыл бұрын

At some point this year, though not necessarily 'soon', sorry. We need to manage and deal with the Leviathan launch , then we'll be in a position to sort out a mats order.