The Peoples of Italy: Enemies and Allies of Rome

[gavindbm]

Painting Samnites and friends.  I wrote about this in Slingshot 354 but the photos accompanying the article came out a bit blurred, so I hope the ones below are better.

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Samnite shields - Ivory white with mix of 10mm, 15mm & 28mm transfers from Veni Vidi Vici (plus some hand drawn using artist Indian Ink pens)

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Samnite tunics

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Gallic shields - mainly transfers from Little Big Man studios but some hand painted.

And more in the next post

[Imperial Dave]

Sorry about the pictures they looked ok in the pdf but lost a bit on publication onto paper...

[gavindbm]

Continuing images connected to article in Slingshot 354.

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Gauls in more muted coloured clothes with stripes.

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The complete army

And a bonus photo.
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The Etruscans' shields (bases not yet done)

[gavindbm]

Sorry about the pictures they looked ok in the pdf but lost a bit on publication onto paper...

It happens - I don't blame anyone.  Instead I have happily taken the opportunity to post the pictures here

[Keraunos]

Gosh!  Those are fabulous.  Thanks very much as I was looking for ideas for my next batch of Samnites.

[Duncan Head]

Absolutely lovely, Gavin!

[CarlL]

Beautiful work Gavin.

I missed the Samnites previously they are gorgeous! As are your Celts and Etruscans.
CarlL

[Aetius]

Wow...Exquisite work...Beautiful...

[Ian61]

I have said before I am in awe of folks who can get fancy patterns on to clothing at this sort of scale. Fantastic Gaul fabrics Gavin.

[Chilliarch]

Beautiful!

[stevenneate]

Is the predominance of red on the Etruscan shields a deliberate choice?

I have seen printed photographs blur from a couple if reasons. First is simply the printing process itself may lose quality. Second is if the photo is resized to fit a space and sides are stretched or crushed rather than rescaled from the corner. PowerPoint presenters do the latter all the time and photos lose clarity.

[Imperial Dave]

I'm going to print off the next load of pictures in slingshot myself pre proper printing to double check

[gavindbm]

Is the predominance of red on the Etruscan shields a deliberate choice?

Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer in the article in Issue 354.  Middling answer is that the red is from paintings in an Etruscan tomb.

It was also part of my approach of making each contingent distinctive. As I believe that locals could often spot identifying features that told them which group a person belonged to.  Often we don't have descriptions or illustrations that tell us what these were but sometimes we have hints - so I chose distinctive shield & tunic patterns for different contingents (which had the additional benefit of making them more interesting to paint).

[Erpingham]

Middling answer is that the red is from paintings in an Etruscan tomb.

Probably the Giglioli tomb.  You also see this red centre on sarcophagus paintings.

[stevenneate]

Are those various coloured cloaks amongst the shields and armour?