DUO TESTUDO: Caesarian Romans

I got around to constructing a second Testudo model to compliment my Caesarian Roman legion. This time I used the old Wargames Factory Romans but with the Warlord Games shields as I'm going to need the Wargames Factory shields for a unit of early Praetorians.

Somehow the use of the different shields rendered the unit with a less cohesive or ordered appearance - which I quite like.

I was forced to base them on balsa which bowed ever so slightly across the width which happily allowed the more curved shields to clear the helmets of the flanking legionaries.

I popped the roof shield above the Centurion up a little and fixed a spare arm to look like it was being held up from a rank to the rear. The next one I make I think I'll have a gap opening in the roof caused by a thrown stone.

Finally, a comparison shot. I'll likely make two more of different legions in due course. I've only got a month left before shipping home - so time is of the essence. Next up ... legionary slinger-stands, another Tribune and the Legatus foot command vignette.