"Byzantine sculpt" Topic
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Perris0707  | 16 Mar 2017 5:52 p.m. PST |
First time trying to post a picture. This is a Byzantine stratiotai cavalryman in 28mm. link |
| Grelber | 16 Mar 2017 8:42 p.m. PST |
I'm getting the following note:
As soon as Perris Cooley puts the camera down, we may have an album to view. There are shaded out photos below, but none are of figures. Grelber |
| Druzhina | 16 Mar 2017 9:33 p.m. PST |
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| Dave Jackson | 17 Mar 2017 4:57 a.m. PST |
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| Perris0707 | 17 Mar 2017 7:27 a.m. PST |
Crap. I just changed the settings to "Public". Try it now. link |
| idontbelieveit | 17 Mar 2017 9:33 a.m. PST |
Cool. What era? What we call byzantine covers a lot of years. |
| Perris0707 | 17 Mar 2017 1:16 p.m. PST |
This would be for the mid to later period of the Empire, but could be also a Thematic cavalryman or member of the personal retinues of the Dynatoi (great landowners like the Phocas, Ducas, or Comnenii clans). I am also doing a couple Byzantine Horse archers, another Thematic Kavallarioi, and a Norman knight in the Latinikon. |
| Grelber | 17 Mar 2017 8:59 p.m. PST |
Looks nice! Lamellar armor, helmet and boots it looks like, so not heavy, heavy cavalry like klibanophoroi. Long ago, I read Arnold Toynbee's book, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World, and came away with a preference for the thematic troops, as opposed to elite units of the tagmata stationed in Constantinople. I think he would work well for that sort of thing. Grelber
(Who has never been brave enough to try posting a picture, but is encouraged by your eventual success) |
| Perris0707 | 17 Mar 2017 9:20 p.m. PST |
Thanks Grelber! I sort of pictured him as a thematic type myself. I am working on about 5 other figures as well. Two mounted archer kavallarioi one with lamellar and one with padded coat. I might try a kataphraktoi too at some point. I have another sculpt I did a while back that matches the Angus McBride tagmatic katapraktoi in the first Osprey Byzantine book. |
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