"Valiant vs Xyston" Topic

Different scales I know, but was curious what people thought of these two ranges in comparison to each other. Which is more accurate? More detailed? More visually appealing? Your opinions are welcome! Thanks!

I prefer the valiant range. Xyston's galleys look a bit too chunky to me. Dont know what your planning but have you considered Langton's galleys? Really nice ships in 1/1200 and 1/300.

Xyston for me. I like things to be 'chunky' if mounted singly – the weight keeps them where they are put.

I think the Valiant range look much more detailed and would probably look twice as nice as the Xyston range if enlarged to the same scale. The problem with the Valiant range (which may vary from batch to batch) is that the molds seem to be in various stages of deterioration thus ensuring that you must waste lots of time cleaning up areas that you shouldn't have to.

My problem with Xyston is not with the detail but more rather the amount of bits and pieces that are prone to drop off when gaming with them.

I have played and aided the development for Corvus from its beginings and found that with large battles and frequent use the simpler the casting the better. I don't enjoy painting a casting then spend the rest of my time gluing it back together. The steering oars are the greatest rogue and sometimes you lose them altogether.

I normaly use the cheap and cheerful castings from Warrior Miniatures, but the range is limited. Triton do some very good single piece castings and a reasonable range of vessels, and as a bonus they are far cheaper than Xyston.
So if you play large fleet actions as I do then your pocket is a bit healthier if you use a mixture of Warrior and Triton.

I have never seen castings from Valiant so I can't in all fairness make a comment. KK
By all means try Xyston, they look good when painted up

Falcon have a few 1/600 galleys if you can find them