I think I intended these to go on the
Airfix Romans page, where they are still an obvious absentee, but I seem to
have shot them without any comparisons to the aforementioned UK-made figures, so
we're having them here, now, and I'll re-shoot some comparisons for the other
page another day!
Very crude copies, they get round-tipped (Republican?)
shields with Imperial-era uniforms, so . . . Spanish mercenaries? And most of
the Airfix figures were copied, but - mercifully - not the running-waving-pilum
guy, who was quite idiotic enough first time round, although, the marching chap
hasn't been cloned either and he was one of the more useful ones, along with
the Persian archer type.
The chariot has had a complete redesign in Ed Roth's workshops and now looks more like a field conversion of a Celt's
muck-cart! And it has been reduced from 4hp to one, often the way with those
custom jobbies, lots of noise and a fancy paint-job, but as soon as you join 'Run
to the Sun' they burst into flames . . . some summer weekends that A30 South looks like a technicolor, smoldering, retreat from Moscow!
There was a 'big box' set as well, but I
think the vessel-kit was bought in, I haven't studied it but would imagine it's
probably from Academy rather than the
older Aurora or the Heller/Směr ones? The same single runner of
figures won't provide much in the way of useful crew though and the transfer
sheet (there's another in the first image) looks like the bastard-child of Revo
and Games Workshop . . . on acid!
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