Thursday 25 July 2019

My First Roman

I've never painted any Romans before so I'm quite pleased with my first one. Can be used for SPQR, OGAM and Broken legions.




Marcus Licinius Crassus

A little known-fact about this Roman General:

The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. He took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the fire fighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire, if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.

6 comments:

Ivor Evans said...

Great looking figure Martin! What paint manufacturer do you use?

Frank O Donnell said...

I wonder would such a plan still work today ? you could even improve on it by hiring a gang to go around starting fires lol

Brill paint job.

Michael Awdry said...

If they all turn out this well you have a stunning collection!

Martin Thornton said...

Hi Ivor, on this one, mainly Foundry for the base colours. Army Painter washes and a bit of Vallejo and Citadel, so everything really!

Martin Thornton said...

A cunning plan, Frank.

Martin Thornton said...

Thanks Michael, working on a few Ancient Britons as well.