How to Paint: Imperial Roman Legionary.

thanks Duncan, you make it look easy ...

do you have any beginner material for somebody approaching painting from scratches? thanks

Little confused on why he doesn’t use his paint haha

I was just looking for tutorial on painting roman legion I will buy some victrix models many thanks on the guide.

please do some Victrix gallic warriors!

I am still waiting for my transfers that I ordered in OCT. The man said he is now out of business. 12 29 2022

Im doing. Icm 116 centurion.

Thank you

Great painting, but how did you made the base? Only brown and than the grass or did you use green stuff to make everything flat before you used the grass? Thanks in advance

So romans are so tough the don’t need two thin coats?

I've watched this so many times as my time to paint this army approaches... Many thanks, keep it up Sir!

Transfer was on..... "and now we are going to highlight the model" wow top quality attention to detail. Model looks amazing with that shield

@Duncan Rhodes: After a year from the publication of this video I ask you: have you completed the painting on other Roman miniatures to complete some units?

I never thought i ever see duncan use army painter paints

Duncan as usual, your “How to Videos” are just brilliant 👍

The way you list the paints/ colours is really helpful too.

Thanks for posting, I’ll use this one for my EIR Legionnaires

Seems unlikely that the Roman soldiers tunic was red. Even cavalry officers wore dark brown cloaks. Only the General wore red, if every other soldier did he wouldn't have stood out. Most likely the rest of the army wore, as civilians did, white, with purple stripes for officers and cavalry.

Perfect!

Did you do Guals warband?

My God, that transfer. That's so awesome. Makes me wanna get this mini just so I can use those transfers

Love to see come sons of hours

Great tutorial as usual, however i have 300 to paint!!!! this will take sometime

What brand is this miniature ?

What does it say about me I can barely see the details he's painting in the video, which is zoomed up really close to the figure?

I really like these videos, Duncan.

When gluing the shield to the soldier, did you use plastic or super glue? I was interested to know if the paint layers already on each part interfered with the glue bond.

Great tutorial !!! Roma Victrix!!

Suppose he's wearing a old faded tunic? Suppose the Romans browned their lorica segmentata to protect it from rust. Like the brown Bess musket?

Hi Duncan, do you prime the model first or just use the zandri dust spray?

Thank you so much for showing us how easy those transfers are! Completely different to anything else I’ve use which was really confusing me but you’ve made it so easy!
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Please more Hail Caesar contents!!!!!

Thinking about doing an army of roman's thanks to this video

Nice video and outstanding legionary. Im a fan of your work.
Could you paint a Celtic warrior? Or a ancient German or Breton.
It also would be nice to have a equivalency chart for the paints from different brands (whenever possible). For example, what's the Citadel equivalence to Army Painter Pure Red?

Dudes calves are enormous

Hi Duncan, as ever your painting skills are brilliant. But, the head of the pilum is probably too bright as they were lead not iron in real life. As you would know, while metal, lead dulls down very quickly when exposed to the air so it would not have that silvery effect. In case you were wondering, the reason they were lead was so that once they struck their target, usually a shield, the neck would bend making it impossible to go on using the shield with this stupid spear stuck into it. If the metal was iron, then the target could easily lever out the pilum from his shield and continue being a nuisance.

Finally! I've needed a good reference guide for ages.

Those Victrix minis are fantastic, I am painting my box of Spartans with Greek shield decals at the moment. This guy turned out fantastic!

Why is it necessary to paint the shield white before applying the transfer?

"Be sure to thin your paints or I'll thin your life"

Wait, weren't you in warhammer tv? Used to watch so many of their old videos with you on them! Subbed!

The fool left the comments on.

Is it me or is the audio of this vid really lacking in mid and high tones? I had to set the bass of my eq all the way down and volume up to actually hear what you say... Besides that, great video!

For the Brits, is Skrag a derogatory term for women like it is in Australia?

You could also use some decal softener and you don't need to repaint then.

Why the feth wasn't I informed of this video?

"Our enemy mean to march on our capital and utterly overthrow us. They mean to take our women and enslave our children. THIS WE CANNOT ALLOW! That is why we will hold these walls to THE. LAST. GASP. Make ready."

Pleaaaase

After years of reading Horus Heresy books, "Imperial Legionary" means something slightly different in my head.

You’re a fantastic teacher - these are great tutorials. Think I spend more time watching painting than actually painting... it’s more enjoyable and the results don’t end up crap!!

If you want an historically accurate roman unit:
Red was the cheapedt colour,
Pruple was the most expensive and in some time periods banned or exclusive to the royal family
Blue was also popular among the legionaries that acted like marines by boarding enemy ships
White was a common colour the veleites which by the time of the marius reforms were out of use,

Tl;dr red was the most common, pruple was the only colour not used so good wild woth the tunics!

How did I never hear that he had made his own channel!
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What’s your nail care routine?

Lovely painting guide, gonna use this for my Romans for Infamy, Infamy! from Too Fat Lardies. Any chance for a Napoleonic French tutorial, I've seen photos of you at reenactments in French gear.