"Byzantine sculpt" Topic

First time trying to post a picture. This is a Byzantine stratiotai cavalryman in 28mm.

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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

Clicking on 'photostream' gives: "Perris Cooley hasn't made any photos public yet".

This may be one problem.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

As per the above….

Crap. I just changed the settings to "Public". Try it now.

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Cool. What era? What we call byzantine covers a lot of years.

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.

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)

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.