Slitherine

More greens for your comments!

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I'm sure you won't be backward in coming forward!

thanks

Simon

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Nice looking figures Simon. Has Nik approved your quivers?

Nice looking figures Simon. Has Nik approved your quivers?

I'm sure the bow police will be along shortly!

They are great. Among the best miniatures in the market!

Ah, short tip: put the website of your miniatures on your signature. It would help us to take a look on it.

Very nice, indeed. Let us know when they're available for purchase.

list_lurker wrote:More greens for your comments!


I'm sure you won't be backward in coming forward!

thanks

Simon

http://www.lurkio.co.uk

Some very nice stuff there

I'd be tempted to make the shield on the boukellaroi a bit larger myself - it may just be personal but I find shields as small as you have them there just look silly. As, IIRC, we don't know how big they actually were, other than they were small and strapped to the arm, there is certainly wriggle room in depiction.

Also I don't think the Byzantines used the nomad style shoulder/upper arm armour as you have on the lancer and archers.

Will the horse that comes with the figures be the choice of the purchaser? I ask because the first reference we have to the half armoured horses is mid C6th IIRC and the earlier armies, such as Belisarios', would not have had them.

If you're looking for suggestions for other poses it would be nice to have a Gothic type holding his spear at shoulder height in the charge as described in the Strategikon for the "fair haired races" - a bit like the Moor doing almost that in fact

That Hun bow, assuming it comes out when cast looks great Alas I don't approve of the round furry hat - I prefer my Huns with fur trimmed pointed hat as Khurasan have done - http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/km1500.jpg - as I think these are realistic.

Gothic infantry look good

list_lurker wrote:

Nice looking figures Simon. Has Nik approved your quivers?

I'm sure the bow police will be along shortly!

Bow cases more than quivers - and I didn't see a bow case on the Romans ...

If you click on profile (all the way up, between usergroups and private messages, written in ngray) and there you put the website where it is written signature, and save it will appear in all your post. It might help you to make others contact you more easily. I am eager to take a look at those elephants painted.

excellent

when these are released if the sizing matches I will Fogify my maurikian/thematic/nikephorian byzantines with the armoured and unarmoured horse archers

I am not big fan of split waist generally but for mtd archers it is an exception.

Essex ones are good but there is a single pose and the BG looks silly with them all shooting in exactly the same pose

anthony

Will the horse that comes with the figures be the choice of the purchaser?

there will be a BG pack of earlier without and later with. You can supplement with single base packs of either. Lessons learned with the Sassanids,
where there will be an earlier Empire pack with the cloth barding and Later Empire with 1/2 barded

Very nice, indeed. Let us know when they're available for purchase.

realistically still about 6-8 weeks away.

A few modifications



Change to the Hun hat, change to the armour on the Armoured horse archers.

and Goths with shoulder height spears

I'm going to have to buy some now, aren't I

I haven't started the Sasanids yet

Nice work. I like these a lot.
I normally do 28mm, but I'm tempted sometimes.

I know I said I was blown away by the look of the Sassanids, and was looking forward to your Byzants as I have a start on a Byzant azrmy that needs a lot of fleshing out...but to be honest having looked at these pics a few times I am unsure whether they are going to be on my shopping list or not. Don't get me wrong: I would say they look good, but don't stand out from the crowd for me the way the Sassanids did.

Maybe though I should wait until there are fully assembled cavalry, and beautifully painted, for me to look at

The Gothic spearmen however I can definitely say are the best I have seen, and I can definitely see myself acquiring a BG or two to add as "elites" to my existing smelly drab unwashed Gothic masses.

How many mm from base of foot to eye level on the most upright Gothic spearman?

Hi
Effectivily nice ...
But for me i'm only interested to buy miniatures, not bases and so on...
Would you sell one day your production by single fig or pack of figs ?
thanks