Early medievals and the rebasing conundrum

Over the past two weeks I painted a few small units of 28s for Lion Rampant and/or Saga. These were of Byzantine archers:

 Armenian archers by Perry:

 
Armenian crossbowmen by Perry:

And then played around with the thought of rebasing my 20mm British paras on unit stands for a company level game (stand = squad), then thought better of that and tried to make a magnetic skirmish tray that would hold 4 models to represent a squad - not sure if this works or not, so I bought another box of paras to do on unit stands just in case.

I must be nuts, it's bad enough to have some armies in multiple scales (e.g. 1944 Brits and Imperial Romans I now have in 3 scales each) but based in multiple formats within the same scale. Aieee...

More Armenians

Another batch of Crusade-era Armenians from Perry. This time I have a unit of armoured foot bearing a very Christian-themed shield design, and a second unit of militia types with a mixed array of Eastern and Christian shield themes. This time I did the shield transfers before painting the figures, normally I try to match the shield transfer to the colour theme I used for each figure. I think it works, although one wonders whether warriors of the Crusades had that kind of fashion sense.