Late Roman Scale Comparison

My opinion is that all of the figures are compatible.  The largest scale difference is in the GB plastic infantry. The plastics are shorter than the metal ranges as per usual it seems. GB metals seem to have different sizes between their own figures. West Wind minis are slightly thinner and are either the same height or shorter than the larger/ thicker GB figures.  

The largest differences in the cavalry comes from the horse height. The Cataphract horse and Arthur are shorter than the other footsore horses.

L to R: Footsore, West Wind, Footsore, West Wind, Footsore, Footsore Arthur

L to R: West Wind, Footsore Cataphract, Footsore, West Wind

L to R: GB (thin sculpt), GB, West Wind, GB, West Wind, GB (thin), West Wind, GB

L to R: West Wind, GB, West Wind, Unarmored GB, PLastic GB, West Wind, GB

Reaper Bones loot and Scale Comparison

Got a shipment from Reaper, so for the benefit of all here's some height comparisons. (I didn't bother looking up the names, so bare with me)

L to R: Reaper Warg, GB Saxon (with fireforge head), reaper evil knight, reaper soldier, frostgrave soldier, reaper horned satyr, reaper oswald the overladen, reaper evil knight, gripping beast late roman, fireforge mongol, reaper tyrant, reaper werewolf.

L to R: reaper spectral wolf, reaper warg, reaper werewolf, reaper soldier, reaper throne, fireforge mongol, gb saxon, reaper ice troll, reaper minotaur, reaper mountain giant, frostgrave soldier, reaper ogre, reaper oswald, reaper cave troll, gb late roman, reaper cthullu thing

Storm Giant, Reaper Bones

Hello all. On Thursday I received the Reaper bones storm giant. I hot it for 3.75 free shipping on ebay.... Best 4 dollars I ever spent? quite possibly. Whats so exciting for me about this mini, is that it can simply be a wild storm giant, or an aspect of the various polytheistic lightning/storm gods such as: Thor, Zeus, Poseidon, and the Baltic Perkunas. I neglected to spray this bones figure because I started painting him the second the package came. I couldnt wait... Sadly it small spots on the model to be quite resistant to paint, especially the heavily watered paints. So ya....lesson learned. Spray dem bones.

I started by painting the skin and hair in a dark dark blue.

I drybrushed a medium blue (mordian blue) and than did some line streaks with w.e light blue Gw paint I had.

Fast foreward a little... and I gave those light blue streaks a slightly thinner white streak on top of the light blue. The armor was painted in GWs Tin Bitz, and the skirt was painted purple by mixing some cheap acrylic paints. Drybrusherd the hair white

I painted the straps brown

A scale shot for ya. That reaper figure is Karl the ranger... hes not bones. Also for those that dont know reaper figures are extremely tall, probably measure in at 32mm, and what some consider heroic 28mm. They are too damn tall in my opinion.

And here is the nearly finished model. The armor was washed with asurmen blue, as were all the lightning streaks on his body. The purple skirt was also washed with asurmen blue, and the brown leather straps were washed with thraka green (dont know why I chose thraka green, but im pleased with the decision).

The sword was basecoated with the light blue gw paint and given white streaks. It was then slathered with asurmen blue wash. I think the model Is Awesome! I never know how my model will turn out and my plans always twist to places I dont expect. Never the less.... Hes awesome.

Now I just gotta figure out when and how Im gonna use him. Cant wait for dragon rampant..... Also have to try out a song of blades and heros sooner or later.

28mm Dark age/Medieval Scale Comparisons

For those of you interested in wargaming these periods and have been living under a rock here are my two pictures regarding miniature lines and scale.

In order: Gripping Beast Jomsviking(metal), Gripping Beast Plastic Hirdmen, Wargames factory ancient german, and a Bretonnian Men at arms.  All of the miniatures are in my humble opinion compatible.  The heights are all relatively the same.  However, Wargames factory sculpts tend to run on  the thinner side.  Gripping beast has done a good job of making heads and hands larger making for better miniatures for both ease of painting and aesthetic appeal.  Some of the wargames factory heads' have details that are far to small making the miniature look slightly awkward. 

In order: Bretonnian Knight of the realm, Fireforge Teutonic Knight, wargames factory celtic cavalry, and a games workshop standard horse model. The wargames factory horse is by far the smallest.  Which  is appropriate for certain applications.  Steppe horses were smaller than western european horses, and ancient horses were smaller then the warhorses of medieval europe (both are more akin to ponies).  GW models are always more heroic in scale, the standard GW horse less so than the Bretonnian warhorse.  The fireforge horse offers a good size for historical 28mm gaming.