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So, I entered a paint contest at my FLGS and my Black Templar marshal won the technical challenge, for best painted skillwise. The model was "boring" with just blacks and whites with some gold compared to some others out there, but the head judge said he knew how hard blacks and whites can be and that I had the most skill. Note: the judges were the best painters in the shop so they abstained to give us newer painters a chance. Anyways, I won an old metal Brettonian Lord mini.

So I have never played fantasy, just 40k. But I have my Templars and my Tau near complete model-wise for what I want. They just need time and paint. That leaves me with some more room to collect another small army. Brettonians seem eye-pleasing enough compared to the others. I love the knight concept and the heraldry and stuff. The models look REALLY complex...but I feel like each knight will be a good challenge.

After looking at the book, I decided that I didn't want them all to be different colors and stuff. The army book specifically stated that the display army was the army of the king, so it had the best of all families. I am leaning towards doing a single Heraldry theme based on my own, real coat of arms:


I want to have all the knights in the army with the same barding and all the men at arms in the same livery as the nobles. Overall just one big army that would come from one castle. It looks like the colors I get are Green, White, and Gold accent. There will be the metal for armor and leather for other stuff but those are the house colors. Primarily Green and White.

So finally, the question: How do I paint that on a horse. Bret Knights have horses with great barding and shields on that barding. My first instinct is to make all the barding green....but I fear that it would overpower the shields on the side of the horses, because they would ALSO be green. Then again, if I make the barding white, then I feel that it would overpower the green as the primary color of the coat of arms. I am just throwing my predicament out there to see if anyone has any ideas to help me out on how I paint my knights. The peasants are easy...green with white accents, but the knights are the eye-catchers and I want to do them right.

Green and white barding quartered? Could look cool.

Someone really needs to make a brettonia colour thing like that space marine you can use for colour samples lol,

anyway, have you considered doing green-white checkers or blocks? or doing white diagonal or horizontal lines to break up the green? this allows you to have green barding and a green shield, but at the same time not be too zomg green

quartered! that was what i meant by blocks, BAN knows his stuff!

Well...I dont want to quarter or checker because the actual coat is a solid field. However your horizontal line idea struck an idea. The coat has thin horizontal lines, so while more lines would look wierd I think...I am actually attracted to the idea of a heavy trim. Border the edges of all the barding with white, and then border the shields with white as well. That way the solid field of green is edged nicely and the stark white on the shield edges will really make the shields pop out. I will try that and post it up after.

Ok, next question is what green? I will be priming black, because I always do. From there I was actually thinking Caliban Green. I like the deep green look of it, but it may be a little dark for the normally bright brets. Any suggestions? Also, for any gren basecoat recommended, what are the highlights that I would need to use? Never used greens before.