Three lightly-armed auxiliary types, their
grannies have knitted them lovely surcoats from brown wool, look; an open chain
stitch; you could use them as mail shirts in a movie! Joking apart; it's nice
to see the mail a bit rusty looking, as I'm sure it got so, after a few weeks
on campaign, especially in the cold, wet, Northern 'provinces'.
Three 'proper' empire-era legionnaires with
the lorica-segmata (or whatever the spelling is), overlapping plate armour, the
only three in the set and looking like a reconnaissance patrol rather than a
well drilled maniple.
Four more of the lightly-armed troops
make-up the ten figures of these Toyway
sets, these all given a helmet and shield, but nothing else bar a baldric to
hang their sword's scabbards' from - the centurion and the archer have both
drawn a belt from the QM's stores though!
All of them, from the rear, although mostly
rather casual (all the sibling sets are the same) and lightly armed they are
nice figures and I like them, they are also quite well-painted for
china-troops.
The one oddity with all these sets from Toyway, is the separate base with its
small 'CHINA' in the hollowed-out underside, where a single mounting spigot is
set very near the edge of the quite-wide disc, most figures having a choice of
two holes (some only have one) they all end-up 'standing back' on their little
piece of universe - the kneeling guy and the standing on a rock guy being the
two exceptions; they are also the poses with only one hole!
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