Bretonnian Questing Knights

There are 9 knights here - I grabbed one of each of the variants because they're quite funky models. They've got some patterning on the fabric, which I didn't do with the regular knights, because I wanted these to be a little more elaborate. The most effective patterns I think are also the simplest - the 3-dot combo and the little broken cross shape look quite good.

 

This guy got the chalice from his book (other side) repeated in the black cheques, and broken crosses in the red. Because of all the books in his luggage I gave him squiggly text on the field of his heraldry - odd, but it seems to work.

Musician - he's got a couple of other instruments strapped to the horse too, but I like the lute-thing he's playing. A simpler pattern - just a pale diamond with a dark centre in the green squares. He's got quite a cool face, looks like he's mid-song.

Learning from the mistakes I made with the plastic knights, this time I outlined the white transfer in black as well as shading it - so it actually shows up over the yellow bits :-). He's obviously the chef of the group - dead duck, a big animal head, random meat, and what looks like potatoes in his helmet. Yes, I know that means he has two helmets - for the sake of argument he took one off a foe for the purpose of potato-carrying, alright? I've used a lot more yellow in this unit, which I think looks quite good on Bretonnians - very warm and bright.

I'm not sure how well they show up, but there're white patterns painted on the cream sections of the caparison. They're quite obvious in person, but there are some issues with the pic. I've used broken cross patterns again on the red. This guy is quite neat, I like the way he's smoothing his moustache :-).

Brocade-like patterns on the blue, little crosses on the white. Very cool face on this guy - slightly receding hairline, cool cheekbones. It's a shame the plastic heads aren't more like this one.

This guy also has two helmets :-). I think they're probably trophies (it's my story and I'm sticking to it) - after all, one of them does have a writing dest strapped to his horse. This is the 3-dot pattern I mentioned, it's more obvious in person but still visible here.

More 3-dot pattern... I think this is one of my favourites - the use of almost total green (the shields have black chevron things) and white accents makes it very clean and fresh looking. It's a green I don't use often either - I usually go pastel or muted/browny - so it was a nice change. And he's quite clearly been on his OE and come back with a bit of antique furniture from somewhere in France, which will look lovely in his student flat and really offset the beer can pyramid in the corner. I'm sure there's a good reason, I just look at it and think of the people I know who've come back from studenty trips lugging rugs and chests etc.

This was the only model that didn't come with luggage, and it wasn't until I was halfway through painting (ie the 'can't stop now' stage) that I thought that perhaps there was a packaging error. However, it does make him a bit more flexible - he would fit in with either these guys or a regular unit of knights as a champion. Or possibly a minor hero of some sort.

Standard bearer - another huge banner that makes the model a little unwieldy (I wouldn't stand him on a hill). I rather like the wee boy spotter - I painted them with the same red hair so maybe it's a relative helping out rather than some poor peasant kid 'borrowed' off his family to run errands for a knight.