Sunday 14 June 2009

Late Roman Figure Size Comparison Shots

Diocletian was asking, on TMP, how the various larger Late Roman ranges compare.

First I should apologise for a little distortion in the photo; on the table, all the figures were lined up with the bottom of their bases parallel. Also I don't have any of the Crusader http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/list.php?cat=13&sub=29&page=1 Late Roman figures, yet, which I would certainly want to look at, if I was considering building a Late Roman army in the near future.

There is clearly quite a wide variation in figure height. The Gripping Beast Range http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php is the tallest, perhaps 4mm taller than the Foundry http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/main.asp . Black Tree http://www.blacktreedesign.com/home.html are interesting, because there is some variation in the height of the range; the middle figure is at least a millimetre taller than the 4th figure along, and more heavily built. I briefly wondered whether it was from GB and had got into the wrong bag. On the other hand, the 4th figure from BTD is only around 3mm taller than the Foundry on the right and feels to me like it would work with the Foundry range (as Allen showed in his heritage photos of Dave Imrie's units, where Foundry and BTD are successfully mixed).

My personal feeling is that whilst I'd mix most (but not all) BTD minis with Foundry, and certainly mix BTD and GB, I certainly wouldn't mix GB and Foundry. And the BTD horses, of course, are pretty ghastly...

5 comments:

legatus hedlius said...

The Crusader figures are on the smaller size:26mm from sole of foot to eye. Size wise they are close to the BTD figures but the Crusader ones have smaller and more in proportion heads and slightly narrower shoulders. Even so I'd probably put them in the same unit quite happily and I am really fussy about these things!

BigRedBat said...

Thanks, that's interesting. So presumably they are a little taller than Foundry?

ZeroTwentythree said...

Thanks for posting this. A friend was just asking about Late Romans. I will direct him here.

In regard to BTD scale, I'm currently painting a bunch of their Germans and have been wondering if they've been sculpted by multiple sculptors. Not only the size, but the style of some of the figures looks different. More of a benefit than a problem for a horde army, so I don't mind. But maybe the Late Romans are the work of multiple hands?

BigRedBat said...

Hi Z23, no they are the work of one one sculptor (Woody) but I believe he used existing BTD dollies, which may explain the height variations.

The Germans are nice...

legatus hedlius said...

Sorry, don't have any Foundry ones...