Thanks to the suggestions you often give me on YouTube and so I discovered the Byzantine products made by Loongbrick and decided to buy some accessories to build minifigures of the Eastern Roman Empire.
As you may know I love the Roman Empire era and I consider the Eastern Roman Empire to be the true continuation of the Roman state. It has a rich story and the possibilities to create MOCs and other content about it are very extensive. Did you know that even though it is often treated as something separate its people saw themselves as Romans and some continued to do so until the 19th century?
For nearly a thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 this empire preserved Roman law, administration, and classical knowledge while fighting enemies ranging from the northern warriors of the Rus to the many Islamic empires that rose in the Middle East.
The possibilities when you create combos using different accessories and colors for the minifig bodies is very extensive. It is really fun to create these combos and in the last weeks they added even more Byzantine products so now there are even more options to choose. The soldiers you see here represent heavy infantry and cavalry. The quality of the products is awesome. They are made of rigid resin with good hardness and certain toughness as they say in their store. It is true. The colors are applied manually they say too. Based on what I saw searching for information I would say these minifigs and accessories fit the period going from the year 1000 or 1100 to 1300 or even the end of the empire in the 1450s. I will use them to represent any period from 900 to the end of the empire in the year 1453. I would really recommend these accessories if you like them because I think these are some of my best minifigs. You can see clothes from Capes4Minifigs too because I wanted to test how they look mixed with the armor and I'm quite happy with the result. In the future I will test more and get more stuff from Capes4Minifigs to use with these minifigs. In the next pictures I show you the reference pictures to create these minifigs.
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| Source: https://warhistory.org/es/@msw/article/the-military-of-the-byzantines |
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| Source: https://warhistory.org/es/@msw/article/the-military-of-the-byzantines |
And now talking about the future and what I will do with them I'm planning on building a MOC about a watchtower in Greece. The story about the tower and the land around it is interesting and I want to create a video explaining it. In the long term I would love to build a section of the Theodosian walls during the siege of Constantinople. I think it could look amazing but I would need to create proper Ottoman soldiers and many more tan parts! What would you do or build with them? Do you like them? Let me know!
You can watch the Youtube video I posted about them here:
