"My first painted armies from the 90s" Topic

Hi guys

Recently I have been having fun working on a nostalgia driven 1/72 Polybian Republican Roman project, I was introduced to wargaming whilst serving in the army in the 90s, the first army I ever painted was a 15mm Polybian Roman army with Iberian allies (which I loved, cheap but reliable troops) based for DBM, located at the front of these pics, I had a lot of fun playing DBM with it, my second army was a 15mm Imperial Roman army with Sarmation allies, located at the back of these pics, and my third was a samurai army (which I won a painting contest for) I still had these armies in the stash somewhere, so I went digging.

Surprisingly it only took me 30mm to find them, they are a bit beaten up, so I'm going to give myself a restoration project, clean them up, and give them a refresher paint job, here are some before pictures.

I'm missing some elements, and am wondering if mini figs and Essex miniatures are still available, I'll go looking to see if I can pick up some troops to fill out the ranks.
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Hi Gunner,

Nice work. I look forward to seeing photos of the restored troops.

Both Essex and Minifigs are still available.

Essex Miniatures – essexminiatures.co.uk
Minifigs – link

Nice work!
Essex can be found here
shop.wildfabrum.com

Minifigs here
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Thanks guys

I remember some of them from the club games, Dan. I wonder if that civvie that used to come to the club ever actually finished painting any of his figures?

Oldies but goodies. Some things cannot be improved. Three cheers for your rad veterans!

LOL, your memory is better than mine Dal, can't even remember him.

You may remember the hoard of brown undercoated figures, mate, that never even got their flesh painted on.

Ah, yes, I think so.