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Here, that Drummer git's wicked...

Maybe add some scribbles to the swordsman's parchment?

Wizard looks like he could be fun.


You know, you should get your brewing back on-line, get your kiln back on-line, and start putting out home-made wine in home-made flasks....

Belated happy birthday, weety!

The knight looks good, and I'm intrigued to see how the wizard comes out.

Monkeytroll, yeah I'll make that my business plan for when the poo hits the rotary ventilation device.

The wizard looks like a good subject for experimental colours and textures. Swirly patterns and stuff.

was just painting the crossbow dude and I'm taking extra special care as he is a rare Tillean mercenary I think. That's warhammer for Italian probably.

I'm very happy as I just managed to score a single old metal knights panther. I couldn't afford more than one at that price though. But he will give the regiment class so he's worth it.

Happy belated burpday

And the minis look cleen.

As always, your stuff is amazing.

Well thanks for the positive vibes valhalla and miss dee. I had a great birthday and I'm currently sticking together lots of knights.

I noticed that the box has enough bits to make loads more than 8 knights so I got some more bodies and horses from the bits store. I'll have 2 regiments, one of panther and one of reiksguard. And the knights of the white wolf heads can be pirate heads or whatever.

1001 Knights?

This will be interesting. I just need popcorn, a large bowl, a comfy chair, a microwave, a large soda pop, some salt, a happy Daschund, a side table, opera glasses, a large feather, a plushy rug, light, good conversation, a glass of Riesling wine, a Warhammer Fantasy rulebook, another soda pop, a midget, a cool breeze, a few miniatures to paint, a nice picture on the wall, gel, a Rubik's Cube, high top sneakers, and a fluffy pillow...and maybe a sandwich.

They would have to be Arabian knights...

Everyone needs a happy daschund in their life.

Well if you are sitting comfortably, then I shall begin;

I totally get the appeal of these new plastic multipart kits, there are so many spare bits. I'll be using the spare heads, shields and weapons for years to come. On the other hand its depressing looking on ebay and seeing how many thousands of knight kits were stuck together badly and never painted or just crudely daubed with colour. All that wasted plastic and once entusiastic hobbyists daunted into giving up because it seemed like too big a job. Its like watching kittens drowning.

So I had better do a proper good job or I'll just be contributing another failed project to the waste heap of plastic mediocrity... Painting requires determination and a can-do attitude. That's my motivation, no more models for the shelf of shame...

More knights are on the way, but here is the core of the two units ready for primer;


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Oh and I finished the Tillean mercenary. He's a handsome fellow with his hair and distinctive face and if they weren't so darned expensive I'd have a whole band of them.

Weety... has to do a proper job... on a mini.

I can't comprehend that statement.

Love the painting style!

Those old plastic Knights do nothing for me I'm afraid, I'm sure you will get some joy out of them though with your standardly awesome paint job

Good stuff.

Just look at that variety of crests and armour types! Look at those different shields! They're just screaming for unique, one of a kind heraldrys!

Tillean mercenary looks nice Weety. Like the breast plate.

Thanks Dr H, I really pushed the boat out on the breastplate and nailed it. Its 'I can't believe its not metal' NMM. If only it always looked that good.

Anvildude you are tempting me with your unique hereldry - at least for the panthers. I think the reiksguard are just too conformist to not wear a uniform - I might go for something more interesting than the usual red, white and steel. I might instead do them in that black and gold style armour that was all the rage back in the 16-17th centuries.

SJM well I've got a metal knight from the 80s in the paint stripping jar with a bit more character. Did you know the empire knights have had the same horses since like 1989?

A fun thing to do with knights would be to make a joust diorama, I'd prefer to use brettonians though, they are more jousty. I still haven't made a diorama... but one thing at a time.

One thing at a time........

I'm not sure I understand....is that a real thing? I'm not sure I can get my head round that concept.....

Tilean looks great, I feel he's just stepped out of some Rennaisance version of The Expendables

I'm with Anvildude on the unique knights, they're the peacocks of your army...and they should have squires getting into arguments about who's best too

I've decided to chuck that vanilla empire stuff in the bin on your advice anvildude and monkeytroll and go with what feels right and chivilric. I've looked at lots of pics of 16th century knights and this is what I came up with for the first two - bear with me, this acreage of NMM takes time:



Also here's my lovely metal panther knight and his horridly painted horse. Needs more paint...

I want a striped lance!

loving good, that's a nice old knight model... And a fairly abused horse!

Full-on barber pole lance!

Stripes huh? I'll try that on the next one. So many colours to choose from. I'm going to have to strip that horse.


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This morning I managed to cobble together a champion for the knights:



Also I finished the NMM on another knight, sugggestions for colours are welcome.

NMM turned out great weety... very authentic looking. I really like it!

Thanks Mr G. splitta, it was a challenge and I'm learning with each new knight.

This is what I've got so far. I'm thinking of doing the barber stripe on the lance in white but its quite a daunting task to do well and I'm not feeling steady enough yet. Another mug of coffee required before I attempt it. I also thought I might give the horse white sock markings, wadaya think?



And here it is again much bigger so you can see all the brush strokes.

Beautiful work weets. I like the effect of your shading technique on the horses legs... makes them look sort of glossy like a well-groomed horse should look.

Nice work Weety. The metal looks great.

Love the armour on that last horse. Not sure about the brown horse... seems very... brown, maybe some white socks? Just to its hock to break up the brown.

Looking good!

Yes I was thinking white socks as well to break up the brown. It'll have to wait till tomorrow though as I've burned out for the night. I'll look at some pics of horses in the meantime. Thanks for checking it out! If anyone has a suggestion for a knightly colour scheme I've got plenty more knights left to paint.

How about houses of westeros?

Great looking knights - and their gee-gees too.

For the stripey lance you could use a thin strip of masking tape and wind it round if you're worried about wobbly line syndrome....

A pink panther perhaps?

Amazingly I have not been watching game of thrones graven. You'd think it would be up my street but I haven't found the time. I'm sure I'll watch it some day along with all the other unmissable TV I missed.

Thanks for the tip monkeytroll that should help. I'm not sure about an entirely pink knight though, maybe pink and another colour.

Well I was going to paint more knights but I was in a non-chivilrous mood so I did pirates instead. They've been sitting in my ready-to-paint nook for ages. I'm specialy pleased with one eyed willy's stripy pants.

Arrr Jim lad, pieces of eight, batten down the hatches and beware of the Black Spot me hearties.


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Moor pirates...

Very nice non-sequitur...

We just had "Talk Like a Pirate Day" here in the colonies, so painting pirates seems very appropriate.

It was "International" talk like a pirate day, we had it everywhere.

Great looking pirates, Weety. Liking the bandannas.