Good morning Stéphane,
the first figure I will paint will represent the Emperor (Nicephorus Phocas or Vasilios II or someone else). As soon as I finish it I will post it. The second figure will represent the standard bearer of the emperor. I will post it as well. I'm currently painting something else, but these figures piqued my interest.

Salut Georges. Merci, je serais ravi de voir ces figurines mises en couleurs.

Pour ma part, j'ai fini de peindre un ensemble complet de 10 figurines de l'armée romaine de Maximinus Thrax. Je fignoles les socles et je mettrais les photos en ligne bientôt.

It's an era I haven't dealt with at all. But I would like to see these figures painted with the nice technique you use.

Zitat von GeorgeDianelis im Beitrag #78

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It's an era I haven't dealt with at all. But I would like to see these figures painted with the nice technique you use.

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Continuing to attempt to date these sets, before I even received the figures and before a review was posted on plasticsoldierreview.com, I can say with certainty the following:
1) The cataphracts horsemen reappear in Byzantine literature after 900, despite the fact that the use of such units never ceased in the eastern empire.
2) The words Cataphractos and Clibanarios describe the same type of troop throughout Greek bibliography.
3) Kite-type shields appear in western Europe in the 10th century. In Byzantium they are used massively after the first crusade (1096-1099). But from the 10th to the 12th century in the Byzantine army all three types of figure shields are in use.
Therefore we can safely assume that the figures cover the period 10th-12th century. But if we wanted to limit the dating more we could say from 950 to 1150 or so.

Bravo pour cette étude très documenté.

Interesting stuff, GerorgeDianelis. :)

Thank you gentlemen.