Roman uniform question...

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iwik

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Hello.
Can these 3 figures be displayed together?
I suppose the first two are ok, but I'm skeptical about the 3rd... Looks more like an early style...


Thanks for your help.


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Depends on the setting context really (I can't tell much from the photo because of it's size) If a battle scene it could be an auxiliary found himself in a group 'Road menders' during a frantic defense (Think Teutoberg forest)

In general they wouldn't entirely re-equip a legion with the latest gear unless it was being newly created. Old kit would be repaired and passed on to newer recruits or auxiliaries until it was of no use. For parades everyone would look tickity boo and shiny, but a hard campaign would soon see a mixture of gear, such as helmets, being used. Obviously equipment wouldn't last forever, but was too valuable to scrap and would be updated only when required.

Hopefully more experienced views will be added
Enjoy your modelling
Paul
 
Manufacture comes from manus, a hand, and facio, I make. Everything in Roman times would have been manufactured by individual artisans. The commonest armour worn by legionaries as well as auxillaries was mail, even after other armour was introduced. After a battle individual legionaries would have scoured the battlefield, picking up weapons, helmets and armour from dead soldiers, keeping anything that was better than their own. I suspect the only expendable bits of kit were the scuta (shields) and I suspect that the only uniformity was the design painted on individual scuta depending on century/cohort or legion. The sort of uniformity seen at Trooping the Colour I would imagine was most unlikely other than for elite units on special occasions.

happy modelling,

Mike
 
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