Aventine Early Byzantine Heavies- Hand Painted Banner

[Lord Raglan]

Absolutely beautiful work there sir!!!

[Tonhel]

Beautiful!

[Atheling]

Thanks guys, very much appreciated 

I'm thinking of painting some of the Byzantine Banners on A4 and have them for sale. It's about time I did something with that FA degree 

A4 because it will be easy to get in lot of detail on the borders etc then shrink down to 30mm and 40mm squared.

I'll have to see how I go.....

[Roo]

Stunning brushwork on some nice figures

[Atheling]

Stunning brushwork on some nice figures

Thanks Roo.

[OSHIROmodels]

Lovely 

[Andrew66]

Thanks guys, very much appreciated 

I'm thinking of painting some of the Byzantine Banners on A4 and have them for sale. It's about time I did something with that FA degree 

A4 because it will be easy to get in lot of detail on the borders etc then shrink down to 30mm and 40mm squared.

I'll have to see how I go.....

Please do some of us lesser mortals would purchase them

[Orctrader]

Yep, stunning brushwork.   

The last two ranks are currently drying after glossing and on the advice of meistro Redzed I'm going to be leaving the gloss to go off thoroughly for a few days before matting down.

Good advice.  As I'm mainly a weekend painter the timing is easy for me.  I gloss varnish on a Saturday or Sunday and leave them for a week before the first matt coat is applied.

[Atheling]

Yep, stunning brushwork.   

Good advice.  As I'm mainly a weekend painter the timing is easy for me.  I gloss varnish on a Saturday or Sunday and leave them for a week before the first matt coat is applied.

Yeah, but staring at the mini's fully glossed up is driving me crazy 

I am definitely going to keep this method up. The hardest part for me is to remember to matt the mini's down on the long awaited day despite leaving reminders online and on paper 

[Proclus]

I'm curious whether you have a good source for period-appropriate iconography, since I would love to do an Byzantine force in a similar period at some point.

[Atheling]

I'm curious whether you have a good source for period-appropriate iconography, since I would love to do an Byzantine force in a similar period at some point.

The drawing itself, is just one of many I've been working on. All are sourced from original Eastern Roman Empire 6th Century source material.

Eventually I'm planning on painting up the banners on A4 paper, then reducing them down to various sizes for 28mm and possibly 15mm.

Just watch this space

[has.been]

Keep up the good work.
Looking forward to seeing your flags.

[Atheling]

Keep up the good work

Cheers matey

Looking forward to seeing your flags.

I'm using the Aventine Justinian and Flat metal banners on the unarmoured infantry and adding my own freehand banners to the more elite units. That way I can exaggerate the size of the banners to make them stand out on the table top.

I'm thinking of making them available but that is only if I can get around to painting them up on an 400mm pieces of water colour paper first. (Actual banners will be painted at about 300mm then reduced to size, leaving a 100mm margin for the tape as I'm going to stretch the paper first).

[Orctrader]

Yeah, but staring at the mini's fully glossed up is driving me crazy 

I actually like the look of them like that - just for a while.     Which gloss varnish are you using?  And brush-on or spray?

[Atheling]

I actually like the look of them like that - just for a while.     Which gloss varnish are you using?  And brush-on or spray?

Humbrol brush on for anything that I've taken  my time with. Humbrol Spray for speedy painty stuff.

The Humbrol Gloss brush one seems to have retained the original chemical makeup, unlike the Humbrol Matt Black, which had to be the best undercoat available (ever!) until they tinkered with it. The Humbrol Matt Black a sheen now