frozenwastes wrote:The thing to remember about GW is that they have been doing their best to try to license out their imagery over the last number of years. A property that is no different from a historical period can't be protected by copyright laws. So they chose to depart from both the Hundred Years War look their Bretonnians used to have and the Landschneckt look that Empire used to have.
They moved away from the puffy sleeves look because the layers are too hard to paint for beginners and it was putting people off.. Towards the end of those models lives, they stopped painting the inner sleeve with a different colour and just shaded them.