This is my sister unit to last week's clibanarii; these are the Equites Catafractarii Iuniores, a Vexillationes Comitatenses unit under the control of the Comes Britanniarum. Unusually, I painted most of these myself some years back; I have just "tarted them up" a bit including rebasing and giving them new bling-y lances. They can deploy in line or cuneus.
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Equites quarti clibanarii Parthi
These superb cataphractoi were painted by Shaun Redzed Watson, who very kindly sold them to me last year. I have rebased them and named them after one of the units from the Eastern empire, the Fourth Parthian Clibanarii. We don't know exactly how clibanarii differed from cataphractoi. In my armies, the eastern clibanarii will ride half-armoured horses, 'cos that's how the minis came!
The basing is a bit of a departure for me; instead of the normal 3 bases for a units, I have divided them into 2, so that they can either form a deep wedge or a line as I choose.
I am really delighted with them! It is very likely they will be on the table next Sunday at Partizan for the very large game that I'm putting on with James Morris, Steve Jones, Scrivs and Mog. If you are coming to Partizan and fancy playing, please drop me a line!
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Cats
I thought I'd post another picture of Ian's 15mm cataphracts, that were on the edge of the shot yesterday. The central unit are Essex; nice minis!
I have recently recived some lovely "cats" from Keith at Aventine, alas I just don't have time to paint them, quite yet. :-(
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