Ancient Romans - housekeeping

I've done some housekeeping on the blog, taking advantage of some photographs sent to me by Bob the Painter, to review the posts under Codes AR and ARC, and to add two new posts under Code AFA (Ancient Field Artillery).

I hope to do some more tidying up in the coming weeks, to take photographs of some figures I have acquired since listing them on the blog, and to correct any misidentifications which may have crept in.

I'm also going to try using photographs of the "new" Minifigs from a 1978 catalogue to see if they can help with identifications of the S Range SYW figures which can be hard to identify - different grenadiers in mitres can be hard to tell apart.

AR 1s Roman Tribune

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of this figure..


The second photo is either of  the earlier original  the Miniature Figurines 20mm Range version

AR 2s Roman Centurion

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photo.


This is I think the original Miniature Figurines 20mm range version of the Centurion figure.

AR 3s Roman Eaglebearer

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of this figure..

AR 4s Late Roman infantryman throwing pilum

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of this figure.

The second photo is from the 1972/3 catalogue.

AR 5s Roman legionary advancing

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of the single figure..

This is AR 5 from the original Miniature Figurines 20mm range, legionary standing with spear. The advancinf figure was coded AR 4

AR 6s Late Roman infantryman with spear advancing

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the second photo, showing the figure at a different angle.

AR 7s Roman auxiliary javelinman

Original and later (remodelled) versions of this figure. The original version, though listed as advancing, is in a static pose.

AR 8s Roman auxiliary archer firing

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph.of the single figure, showing the mail shirt which is not apparent from the painting of the figures in the first picture.

AR 9s Roman auxiliary slinger

These are pictures of the original S Range Roman slinger. The later remodel has a shield on his arm and is in the act of slinging.

AR 10s Late Roman Praetorian spearman advancing

No picture of this figure is available at present

AR 11s Praetorian, sword and cloak

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of this figure..

AR 12s Late Roman auxiliary slinger

No picture of this figure is available at present

AR 13s Late Roman auxiliary archer

No picture of this figure is available at present

AR 14s Palatine auxiliary spearman

No picture of this figure is available at present

AR 15s Roman musdician (large horn)

No picture of this figure is available at present

AR 20s Roman artilleryman pulling lever

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of this figure.

AR 21s Roman artilleryman holding bolt

With thanks to Bob the Painter for the photograph of this figure.