Close ups of my Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Cover

These photo's of the cover I did for Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy a few years ago have recently come to light. The theme of the magazine that particular month was the Roman Invasion of Britain. I remember racking by brains for an original idea, something I found difficult to do especially with Early Imperial Romans as they ar an army in which just about every diorama or vignette had already been done. Warlord Games were kind enough to send me some of their Marius Mules packs and that's when it hit me. Instead of going for the belligerence normally associated with Imperial Romans I would try to interject some humour into the vignette. I hope one some level I manged to achieve this?

Close Ups:

Perry miniatures Desert Rats featured in the Salute Perry North Africa Diorama

More pics retrieved from the old steam powered laptop. Boy was it making some very strange noises!

Here we have the Perry Desert Rats which were painted up for their North African diorama for Salute 2013.

The miniatures were painted by me, the rest of this lovely piece was put together by the dynamic duo. Looking at the brushwork again here I think I would have opted to use Vallejo German Cammo Dark Brown instead of the Vallejo Matt Black undercoat. The black undercoat showing through seem to be too stark a contrast with the light uniforms. I will make a mental note of that!