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Monday, September 24, 2007

Cappadocia sides with Alanicus (Campaign 68)

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The Governor of Cappadocia weighs up his options in the raging civil war and decides to back the latest contender. In doing so, he added yet...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Alanicus the benevolent (Campaign 67)

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With the armies of the West still dazed by their resent set too, Alanicus sees his chance for a quick land grab of own. It is now that he op...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Alanicus shows his hand (Campaign 66)

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After a year of waiting and watching from a distance, Aulus Proctavius Alanicus steps from the shadows of the East to make his bid for powe...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Tullus hardens the army of North Africa (Campaign 65)

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After the resent victory at the battle of Valentia, would be emperor Tullus was shocked in the way that the vexilations from North Africa we...
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Putting a name to the face

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On buying the Osprey book ' The Roman Army of the Punic Wars 264-146 BC' I discovered a huge list of Roman commanding Generals in th...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The Villa is finished

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Here is a turn around of the finished Villa with its finished doors and windows. I had real fun in researching this project and I'm quit...
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Bringing the Villa to life

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33. Looking pretty Roman to me, all that's left now are the doors and rafters. Almost done. 32. For me the real cherry on the cake was ...
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Doors finished

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"Alright, alright...enough about the bloody making of the thing! get on with the painting man! for the Sweet love of Jupiter!" 2...
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Window and Door details

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28. Colonnade all plasted and detailed. I left some of the Polyfiller quite rough in places to pick up the texture, when I came to dry brush...

Plastered!

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25. Here is the end result...and look who's turned up now the hard work has been done. 24. Time to call in the plasterers. I used fine ...

New day and the sun's up

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21. back inside, I set about putting the finer detail on the roof. These rafters are just cut up Bolsa wood sticks. This was quite pain stak...

making slaves quarters into the night

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14. It's getting late now and little Tony is no where to be seen, Romans never stay up too late. The roof below is now completely finish...
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Tiling the roof and colonnade

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12. The model is now tiled and looking more like a Villa with every passing hour. Up to now, I think I had spent about four to fives hours w...
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Little Tony plans the roof and colonnade

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Below, Little Tony over sees the construction of his new country Villa, If only he knew that when it was finished, it would have hundreds of...
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How to build a villa in six hundred and forty easy steps

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4. Here you can see I've used Tony to measure up the doors and windows, It's important to remember that if you are going to spend th...
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