Atheling's Elite Tagmatic Byzantine Close Ups- Single Bases- PAGE 10- 26-04

[MaleGriffin]

Beautifully done!

[Atheling]

Beautifully done!

Thanks mate- appreciated. More to come soon in a few days (I have to wait to give the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge 48 hours with the piccies before reposting- which is fair enough )

[Captain Harlock]

I have to admit that I’m not very fond of these sculpts with the old school proportions, but your painting is really elevating them and making them appealing to the point of having some second thoughts about them 

[Atheling]

Thanks.

I quite like the sculpts. Like all painting in wargaming, it's possible to bring anything to life with a little tender loving care.

Although I'm not mixing and matching with the Nikephorian Byzantine army, it's possible to produce some very nice looking units like the one below just by working with what is in front of you.

[Mithridates1]

Great looking Byzantine cavalry.   Makes me want to get moving and see to my Nikephorians, still suffering from years in storage.    Mix of Hinchliffe, Essex and Gripping Beast, many still to be painted..  All up they need a lot of work, apart from painting need re-basing, new lances, standards, penons ........

Seeing your excellent work gives me much needed encouragement!

[Atheling]

Great looking Byzantine cavalry.   Makes me want to get moving and see to my Nikephorians, still suffering from years in storage.

    Mix of Hinchliffe, Essex and Gripping Beast, many still to be painted..  All up they need a lot of work, apart from painting need re-basing, new lances, standards, penons ........

I'm putting the army together, as best as I can with the miniatures available to cover the Nikephorian dynasty (802 to 813) through to the end of the Macedonian dynasty- possibly into the early years of the Komnenian dynasty. I just wish someone made good 28mm Byzantine Skutatoi models in fabric armour- well, actually someone does do so but unfortunately they are very difficult to get hold of at the moment.

Seeing your excellent work gives me much needed encouragement!

It would be great to see what you do with the army

[Mithridates1]

Lots of work to be done to get them into shape!

Presume you have seen this chap - Hinchliffe "peltastoi", good size sculpt, perhaps a little quirky? https://www.lancashiregames.com/lg/hinchliffe-miniatures/25mm-dark-ages/25mm-late-byzantine/hin/ba3-peltast.html

Padded armour, sold mine off ages ago but I see Lanchashire Games has them on their site.

[Atheling]

Lots of work to be done to get them into shape!

Presume you have seen this chap - Hinchliffe "peltastoi", good size sculpt, perhaps a little quirky? https://www.lancashiregames.com/lg/hinchliffe-miniatures/25mm-dark-ages/25mm-late-byzantine/hin/ba3-peltast.html

Padded armour, sold mine off ages ago but I see Lanchashire Games has them on their site.

There wasn't much choice back in the day so I remember them well. They don't really fit in with what I'm using- I was tempted to use the Drabant range but then you know what happened and that was the end of that.

[Atheling]

My 48 hours of offsetting publishing on social media for the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is now up and I can, at last, present to you the next unit in my growing Thematic Byzantine army.

This unit represents a body of soldiery living on the margins of the Themes. Lightly armoured "Light" cavalry used in the main for scouting though sometimes in battle they might be called upon to take the role of Defensores and/or Cursores and to this end I will be adding a back rank of six Hippo Toxotai. The unit will contain six for Hippo Toxotai per unit to act as Defensores and four Hippo Toxotai for Defensores. I hope that makes sense!?!

More pictures of the unit and some close ups of each miniature can be seen on my Just Add Water Blog here:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2023/02/thematic-byzantine-thematic-light.html

For now, here are some images of both the unit and a couple of close ups:









Cheers

[Orctrader]

Gorgeous painting.   

[Old Hob]

Mind-blowingly good, sir. As ever, it's the richness of the colours that really draws me in. Very much looking forward to the next unit.

[Captain Blood]

Very colourful Darrell. Nice work 

[LouieN]

Simply awesome. 

[David H]

Superb paintwork 

[Pattus Magnus]

Yes, those are quite spectacular!