Early Byzantine Armoured Skutatoi

Started by Atheling, 20 December 2024, 01:23:21 PM

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Atheling

I've added in a couple of extra characters like the officer with his hand in the air, commanding the archers to loose and the Flamoularioi officer to 'dress the ranks'.

You can see a whole load of extra pics of the unit as a whole and each individual stand from various angles on my blog here:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2020/08/aventine-byzantine-heavy.html


First, a more or less actual size pic:









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I had to check the scale of the figures; I was wondering if they were 40mm

There are some nice vignettes in the unit

I particularly like the slashes on the shields, a really good touch
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Atheling

Thank you for the very kind words guys :)

Quote from: Last Hussar on 20 December 2024, 07:37:50 PMWhat are they?

They are Early Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire Extra Heavy Spearmen and Archers- all mini's by Aventine Miniatures.

clibinarium

These are just awesome.  I read "The last great war of Antiquity" earlier this year, which is about the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, and I hard a hard time picturing the armies- are these figures from that period or earlier?

Atheling

Quote from: clibinarium on 21 December 2024, 03:53:27 PMThese are just awesome.  I read "The last great war of Antiquity" earlier this year, which is about the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, and I hard a hard time picturing the armies- are these figures from that period or earlier?

Thank you for the kind words Clibinarium.

These are a wee bit earlier, more Justinian's Invasion of Gothic Italy in terms of time scale.

Last Hussar

Sorry, I meant size; from the other post I'm guessing 28mm.
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Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 December 2024, 06:22:49 PMSorry, I meant size; from the other post I'm guessing 28mm.

Yup - 28mm.
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