Julius Caesar's bloody assassination on March 15, 44 B.C., forever marks March 15, or the Ides of March, as a day of infamy. It has fascinated toy soldier guys ever since.
(For ancient Romans living before that event, however, an ides was merely one of several common calendar terms used to mark monthly lunar events. The ides simply marked the appearance of the full moon.)
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Far cooler for us the playseteers is the notion of a JULIUS CAESAR PLAYSET.
We begin, of course, by heading over for inspiration to our very favorite playset blog,
http://marxplaysets.blogspot.com/
as we want our set in 1/32 approximate scale with Louis Marx' masterpiece for Christmas, 1959:
See the FLICKR pages:
'http://www.flickr.com/photos/22283683@N07/7641285304/
We find a Greek guy in a toga with a knife:
We cop the reissue Romans from Kent:
'Copies of famous Roman Generals in any scale? We find him!
Undaunted, we find marvelous Temple PILLARS for our Roman Senate to complement the plastic MARX stuff:
HIRSTARTS TEMPLE KIT: Very Cool!
http://www.hirstarts.com/temple/temple.html
We supplement it with ATLANTIC Romans, courtesy of ToySoldierHQ and Kent Sprecher:
Are we there yet?
Got to get the DVD with Mason, Brando et al!!
Now! All you Little Caesars of fun:
BEWARE THE PLAYSET OF MARCH!
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pylgrym
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