A new scale

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I’ve been appreciating Warmaster and Warmaster Ancients recently. It’s a fantastic ruleset that captures the feel of leading a premodern army without bogging down in complicated maneuver or command rules. It’s in 10mm scale and while I’ve been using 15mm for playing fantasy, I wanted to stick with the intended scale for historicals.

Years ago I bought 10mm Imperial Romans and Germans from Steve Barber Miniatures. Now I’m working on building a late Roman force that’ll match the size of the Steve Barber sculpts, albeit a bit bulkier and easier to paint. Here are the results so far:

The figures progress from left to right, with the enthusiastic fellow on the far right the latest sculpt. You can see the improvement, I hope! I have to add shield bosses to this stand. We’ll see how it casts.

Medievals

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Here’s some medievals, mostly Perry Miniatures with Crusader Miniatures for the Latin knights.

Byzantine cavalry, from Perry’s Crusader range Armenians and Seljuks. The only converting is adding height to the two middle figures’ helmets.

Seljuk cavalry, also from Perry’s crusader range.

Dismounted knights from the Latin Kingdom of Constantinople. This was the short-lived crusader state that was established after the sack of the Byzantine capital in 1204. These guys are from the later days of that kingdom before its fall to Nicean Byzatine forces in 1261.