Atheling's Early Byzantines- Made the Cover of "Slingshot"- Page 31. 23-04-2023

[Atheling]

'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:














Cheers

[vexillia]

Lovely stuff.

[Tonhel]

What a beautiful unit! Very immersive! I really like the warm colours!

[pallard]

Thumbs up Darrell
Philippe

[Grumpy Gnome]

Gorgeous work!

[Roo]

Sumptuous miniatures😳

[Shahbahraz]

Those are just great! Lovely work.

[Atheling]

Thanks for the kind words people- appreciated

Sumptuous miniatures😳

Is it safe to assume that temptation might have got the better of you mate? 

They are really beautifully sculpted mini's and expertly cast. Literally nothing to cut off and very little filing needed. And the detail!! 

[Captain Blood]

They look very good 

[HappyChappy439]

Amazing work! They've turned out great!

[Roo]

Too many Saxons still to paint😉. But they are lovely figures and your paint job makes them pop...my daub attempts would not do them justice besides hundreds of Western Romans to complete also.  On the dream list 🤙

[aphillathehun]

They are terrific!  I doubt they would be dismounted boukellarioi though - I don't think dismounted cav would have the infantry shield.

I can't wait to see the rest of your army.  That you keep posting them right now is kind of bringing me back to LoA regularly because I'm not really working on any gaming stuff right now.

[LouieN]

A wonderful unit.  Well done

[bluewillow]

Lovely and bright brush work mate!

Cheers
Natt

[Atheling]

Thanks for the kind words people

Too many Saxons still to paint😉. But they are lovely figures and your paint job makes them pop...my daub attempts would not do them justice besides hundreds of Western Romans to complete also.  On the dream list 🤙

If it's any consolation Roo my dream list keeps growing  . I look back to even a decade ago and realise that we are absolutely spoiled rotten for mini choices these days.

They are terrific!  I doubt they would be dismounted boukellarioi though - I don't think dismounted cav would have the infantry shield.

I'm not so about them sticking to their bucklers when dismounted- it would have been a significant disadvantage whilst fighting on foot. Being the cream of the army and very well equipped I think it's reasonable to assume that they would have had access to larger Scuta if in need. Of course, we don't have any sources that really stipulate what they were equipped with when fighting dismounted, for example at Dara, but we do know that they did fight dismounted and were able to stand fast against a much larger Sassanid army. I'm not sure how they would have done this with very small bucklers(). Obviously I could be wrong and these are just my assumptions.

I'm quite sure that Keith and Adam at Aventine has these particular models penned at Dismounted Bucellarri. It did dawn on me that the front ranks lacked bows etc which I think is more of an issue.

I can't wait to see the rest of your army.  That you keep posting them right now is kind of bringing me back to LoA regularly because I'm not really working on any gaming stuff right now.

Thanks I've got a Torsion War Machine and some slingers in the gloss pile at present due for matting down on Tuesday.