Carthaginian Infantry

Hail Caesar, Midgard Heroic Battles

The Epic scale painting continues, this time with my first blocks of ranked infantry: Carthaginian infantry.

As with all my models for this project, these are Warlord’s Epic Scale Punic Wars range for their Hail Caesar game. As I mentioned in the last few posts however I’m not basing these on Warlord’s bases, which are 60x20mm but on my own 3D printed bases which are 80x40mm and are more suited to the Midgard game.

As a result of the larger bases I decided to stick down 3 strips per base rather than the two that fit on the Warlord bases. I quite like the look of the 3 strips together, and therefore am happy with the decision. I also quite like the look of the separation I get between blocks even when the bases are touching as the bases are wider than the strips. This will be accentuated for the Romans when I get to them as they are modelled to fit 3 ranks on the Warlord bases (so roughly the same footprint of 2 strips of the more normally ranked infantry).

Painting-wise there were a few things I had to do differently to the skirmishing troops. First of all, these are not single models, but a full strip of 10 overlapping models, which presents advantages (definitely faster than painting 10 individual models!), and adds some tricky-ness for basing as the basing material is added after the strips are glued down and I had to veeery carefully get basing paste between the strips (a roughly 5mm gap) after gluing them down.

The skin was painted exactly as per the Numidians from the past post, that is with AK Tan Earth. The shields are a mix of AK Ivory, Vallejo Game Heavy Goldbrown and Vallejo Game Heavy Violet. The bronze is Scale75 Necrogold, and the silver Scale75 Black Metal, both my go to colours for those. As for the other models I went for an all over wash of Army Painter Soft Tone followed by a highlight of the basecoat colour.

Overall I really like the ranked look you get from these models, especially with the overlapping shields. These were slightly more tedious to paint than the skirmishers, but again I painted 60 models in the time I painted 20 skirmishers so I suppose I can’t complain.

Here they are amongst the other bases I painted so far. I really like the distinction between skirmishers and ranked infantry you get at this scale. I’ve made a small dent in the Carthaginian Division set now, with roughly a third of the units painted (the rest is mostly a lot of Gauls and Iberians!).

In other news, I just got a notification that today marks five years since my first post which is quite something. I don’t think at the time I had any idea I’d go this long, so thanks a lot to all of you for reading the blog, it does keep me motivated to see comments and views on my posts! Here’s to 5+ more!

9 thoughts on “Carthaginian Infantry”

  2. Congrats on your milestone, Nic! I think I’m around five years too though its hard to keep track because I’ve created multiple websites on WordPress and I started “BattlesinMiddleEarth” as it was initially called and then set it aside for almost a year before taking it back up in earnest. So calculating anniversaries is unfortunately complicated.

    Onto more important things, its hard to believe that is 60 miniatures but they unsurprisingly look very cool. I really enjoyed seeing everything you’ve worked on too. The force is really coming together and this project is really showcasing your skills as an army painter. It all looks magnificent on the battlefield and your force is growing at a rapid rate. I fear I’d have way fewer models done at this point if I were embarking on the same project 🙂

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    1. Thanks Jeff! It’s extra easy for me to keep track of because WordPress notifies of the account creation anniversary, and I posted on the same day I created the account!

      Speed is of the essence for this project I have so many more of these to do! Glad the balance seems to be there between speed and quality!

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      1. It doesn’t get any easier than that! I’ll be curious to see what your final model count is. If its 200+, I’ll be impressed. I could see it easily being higher than that though truthfully!

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      2. I haven’t done the full maths but there’s 10 more blocks of 30 just on the Carthaginian side (and some more skirmishers/cavalry). Then there’s the Roman army, with 14 blocks of 30 plus skirmishers/cavalry. It’s in the order of high 900s all up! Now especially on the Roman side, the infantry is so tightly packed that the middle ranks aren’t fully modelled, so it’s not quite that for painting purposes, but in terms of models represented on the table that’s the order. Should look quite impressive I hope.

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      3. Neuf-cent!? Zut alors! That is a lot of minis, my friend 🙂 It will almost definitely look impressive. You can’t field those kind of numbers without it looking cool. Unless of course nothing’s painted, then it won’t be quite as impressive but we both know that isn’t going to happen!

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