Next up are two units of Knights of the Realm. In this case, these minis were unfinished prior to starting, so they have never actually seen the table before. I had enough partially painted from earlier efforts or bulk trades to get at least two units out.
This group includes a couple of metal castings including a standard bearer with the standard pole clipped off. I went ahead and replaced it with an extra plastic Bretonnian lance and he appears to fit in rather well.
For the lances, I tried to make the pennants look a little more dynamic by wrapping some of them around the lowered lances. I chose to skip the shields with these two units as I am missing most of them, and figured the heavy armor is protection enough....
This unit includes a bunch of horses I received pre-painted with a think red-brown paint covering the comparisons. I chose to incorporate them into the design by doing variations with that color and yellow to unify the group. I am still not too thrilled with these as I think I at least need to incorporate some heraldry into the cloth coverings to spice them up. Anyway, they still look better than they have in a few years...
very nice and impressive knights...
ReplyDeleteSplendid, amazing colors!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Part of the fun of painting these kind of miniatures is the ability to break out a variety of colors (or colours)
DeleteGreat looking sculpts despite their age, and nice job painting them. Maybe some heraldic transfers?
ReplyDeleteI am planning on adding some to the horses. First I need to find some that have not seized from the passage of time
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