Numidians
The first conversion I did was to make some extra Numidians from the
HaT
Punic Africans box ...
The figure in the center of this element has simply had a head swap.
I
could have changed his shield and removed his sword, but there is an
account
of Numidians hiding swords in their cloaks, so they at least some must
have
had swords, and I think it is reasonable to think a soldier here or
there
would have nonstandard equiptment.
The next thing I did was make up some Blades. These are described
as
"Imitation legionaries" so I just painted some Italieri Romans a little
darker
and gave them unusual shield colors:
I think I would favor a LH general but for completeness' sake I also
made
a Cav general. Technically this should probably be a Numidian
with
Celtic bodyguard but I decided to make it all-Numidian:
This is a HaT Celt painted darker. Of course his horse is white
for
visibility.
At some point I will redo the shields on my Numidians in a "cow hide"
pattern,
having seen how cool it looks on other people's figures. * I have done
so but haven't gotten around to scanning new pictures.