Circus Maximus - Blues' Chariot

 

Here's a Blues' chariot for Circus Maximus that I've just finished painting. Below are photos of the Blues' and Greens' chariots together, all Steve Barber Models figures. I've started on a Reds' chariot and have a Whites' chariot assembled and undercoated for painting. After that I just have to finish off the 3mm mdf track I've started and racing will commence!

GMT Games are just about to release a new Roman chariot racing board game called Charioteer which looks interesting:

https://www.gmtgames.com/p-937-charioteer.aspx

I'm not sure if this will work with the chariots I've collected for Circus Maximus but it looks like a fun game anyway. See previous post Circus Maximus- Greens' Chariot for a bit of background on this project.

Circus Maximus - Greens' Chariot

Circus Maximus is the classic Roman chariot racing board game, often imitated but never bettered. It was originally released by Battleline Publications in 1979 but is better known in the 1980 Avalon Hill version. I have never owned the board game but picked up a copy of the rules and bought four Steve Barber Models four horse Roman racing chariots (quadrigae) years ago. These figures have been removed from the website but are still available, I believe if you email and ask for them. This is my chariot for the Greens' faction (factio prasina).

I have one each for the Blues (factio venata), the Reds (factio russata) and the Whites (factio albata). The Greens and Blues were the two main stables, the Reds and Whites minor ones and they were others, the Purples (factio purpurea) and the Golds (factio aurata) but these only operated for a short time during the reign of Domitian. I have made a two part four lane racing arena from 3mm mdf and will post pics of it and the other chariots when finished. An excellent book to get if you're interested in this, is Fik Meijer's Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire.