Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Knights Errant

Knight Colour Scheme

To emphasise the difference between my Knight units I decided on a pretty simple format, with the colour scheme and heraldry becoming more and more elaborate depending on the unit. This would help me get my free-hand painting skills to develop as I progressed, and should hopefully avoid confusion on the table for my opponent as to what was what (one of my personal pet peeves!)...

Knights Errant: Blue, Yellow, and Red - minimal detailing
Knights of the Realm: Blue, Yellow, Red, and Cream (Bleached Bone)
Questing Knights: NFI
Grail Knights: Any colour - fair amount of free hand and detailing

Knights Errant

I've got a fair amount of the older Perry Twin's Bretonnian Knight Errant models, so it was an obvious no-brainer as to what I was going to use for these guys. The only problem was a few head swaps were in order so that the entire unit didn't look like something from a Panteen commercial with their flowing locks.


I decided to keep their colour scheme basic to represent the fact that they weren't fully fledged Knights yet, and to build on this I tried to keep the individual heraldry pretty simple too.


I took a knife to a few of the horses to make it look like they were rearing to fit in with their impetuous nature... which is kind of hard to tell in this photo.



1 comment:

  1. hey

    Very inspiring stuff and nice paint job!

    Can we see more ?

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