Roman legionary

[fabrizio19691969]

hi this is the revised legionary by by z-kit available in 54 and 75mm in my webshop www.fabrimore-soldier.it (the column will sold separately and available in next days

 

[David Spencer]

Another Imperial assassination?

 

[Redcap]

Another Imperial assassination?

As part of a wider set piece, that may be a possible scenario or 'story' being told here but as an individual piece, it is difficult to form any concept or idea as to what he is supposed to be doing. Also if it is an imperial 'assassination' scene, then he would not appear to be a Praetorian who were almost exclusively involved in imperial plots and the replacement of emperors by violence.

If part of a larger multi-figure set piece as a legionary, perhaps one of legionnaires assaulting and destroying the Temple of Jerusalem when Titus took the city in AD 70 would work...?

Some further information would be helpful as the figure itself seems highly detailed and with good anatomy but absent purpose as a single figure and somewhat overwhelmed by the column.

Gary

 

[fabrizio19691969]

sorry but i not produce this i only sell

 

[fabrizio19691969]

i mean is interesting near a senator

 

[David Spencer]

sorry but i not produce this i only sell

It is a very nice piece of work

 

[newtonk]

Is the scabbard on the correct side? I always thought the dagger was to the right, and Romans drew the sword across the body due to length of blade.

Great figure either way. Will it be available in other scales?

 

[fabrizio19691969]

Is the scabbard on the correct side? I always thought the dagger was to the right, and Romans drew the sword across the body due to length of blade.

Great figure either way. Will it be available in other scales?

hi in 54 and 75mm

 

[Oda]

Is the scabbard on the correct side? I always thought the dagger was to the right, and Romans drew the sword across the body due to length of blade.

Great figure either way. Will it be available in other scales?

Legionaries in the imperial era hang their gladius on their right side always.You could expect to see it on the left side when it came to a centurion or higher ranking officer but for the rank and file it was always on the right side of the body.They had a very specific way of drawing the sword too.

 

[NRG]

Legionaries in the imperial era hang their gladius on their right side always.You could expect to see it on the left side when it came to a centurion or higher ranking officer but for the rank and file it was always on the right side of the body.They had a very specific way of drawing the sword too.

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It was worn on the right so as not to tangle with the shield.

 

[Oda]

It was worn on the right so as not to tangle with the shield.

Exactly.

Oda.

 

[Nap]

Nice looking figure , love the details particularly the sword scabbard work and the pose

Will certainly paint up well

Nice addition to your store

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[Bundook]

It's a very nicely posed figure and the helmet detail is especially nice. When preparing this for painting, I'd fill in the open "washers" on the apron. They don't look right.

As for setting, there's an obvious candidate: It is the year 60. He's one of the last few of the 200 defenders of Roman Colchester (his helmet looks like an Imperial-Gallic Type H which would fit that period well). The defenders are made up of convalescing wounded, retired veterans and some of the male civilians. They've been steadily driven back to the precincts of the hastily fortified temple of Claudius and are making their last stand there. They've held out now for two days without rest, food or water, resisting continual attacks, their numbers constantly dwindling, witnessing the unspeakable horrors that Boudicca's ravaging hordes have inflicted on the civilian inhabitants of Colchester. Word had reached them that a detachment of the Ninth of Spain are on their way South to rescue them. That desperate hope gives them the strength to keep going. But general Cerialis and the Ninth have been ambushed and routed by the rebels. Nobody is coming to save them. Now, with the rest of the city ablaze, the enemy are now launching their final furious onslaught...

BTW The evidence of contemporary sculpture seems to imply that common soldiers out in the field could actually wear their swords on whatever side they liked. I've attached a couple of images from many, but Josephus [mid 1st Century AD] also explicitly says this: ' The infantry are armed with breastplate and helmet and carry a blade on each side; of these by far the longer is the one on the left, the other being no more than nine inches long.'