Next up, some Romano-British Commanipulares with 'finest armour'/Belisarian Byzantine Buccelarii (I can't bloody spell that word!) I love multi-purpose Dark Age figures!!! These will be the mounted commanipulares in my 450-486AD Romano-Gallic army (Twilight of Britannia lists). I'm halfway through the foot version and have a unit of 24 GB Saxons and German tribesmen that I've set up for Frank allies awaiting painting. Trouble is, I'm on an El Cid thing at the mo, so Heaven knows when this army will be playable. I am thinking of taking a Romano British army to Cold Steel in January rather than my usual Welsh, as some of the Welsh foot can easily be used as milites/Pedes. It would have been nice to take the Romano-Gallic army, as it's a bit of a good 'un, but I must do some more El Cid painting first...
Anyway, the models....Most of the barded models are my late Roman cataphracts with a 'refreshed' paint job (toned down leatherwork, uniform colours and shields to match the rest of my Arthurian models...) All GB models, by the way...
The next post will be the characters and two units of Caballeros Hidalgos for my on-going El Cid army. It'll be a little while yet, but I'm doing quite a bit of painting while junior tries to avoid going to sleep in the early hours...the record so far is painting horses at 4.15am....
