AdamH's Brets - Pour la dame! (205 pts)

Are my terrible google translate titles hitting the mark?

I will be honest this month was really touch and go for me, I was painting literally up to the last minute, I’m sure the clocks going forward were to blame… but seriously I had a business trip that lost me a week and some house renovations that left me without a place to paint that wiped out another week. So it will probably surprise some of you to learn that model count wise this month is my highest so far!

However, before you get too excited, I was only able to paint so many models because 12/13 of them were basically the same model, and simple ones at that. I present to you my batch painted mono-pose archers:

You may notice that these guys have the same style as my previously posted mounted yeomen, this is to fit into the theme that I mentioned in a previous post; the peasants all coming from Bertrand Brigand’s band of happy guys. To this extent they all follow the same muted brown and green scheme seen on my yeomen.

These were one of the last mono-pose figures GW released and I think it shows in their design. I actually really like the models and being archers’ sort of fits their ridged pose. It would be nice to have a few other variations than the two but we can’t have everything. I’m thinking next month we may even see the unit’s name sake.

Next up we have the first of the characters, a damsel, or rules wise a level two wizard:

I’m thinking that all of the royalty in my force will have variations on blue and gold, starting with this lady. Sporting a deep blue dress with gold trim and white veil/cloak. I am planning to carry something similar over to the Grail Knights when I get onto them. I sort of ran out of time this month as mentioned above so she was painted in a day. There are a few things I am not 100% happy with so I may go back and touch it up at a later date.

This month I am submitting:

121 - Level 2 Wizard (i.e. Damsel) on Warhorse

84 – 12x Bergerac Bowmen

For a total of 205 points.

Finally, since we are now at the half-way point I thought it would be nice to show my progress so far. This is definitely the most progress I have ever made with an army in such a short period of time, the challenge is an excellent motivator and I am already planning a force for next year should I be invited back!

Please let me know what you think of my entry this month and if you have any tips for improvement.

-         AdamH

AdamH's Brets - Sacrebleu! (219 pts)

Month two and I’m still here!

Even fewer models than last month I’m afraid although I am introducing a new unit; Knights Errant.

Adding to my previous month’s unit of Knights of the Realm are another three knights, however after looking back on the knights I painted for last month I wasn’t 100% convinced the coloured armour on the knight itself was working. So, this time (although hard to see in these pictures) I painted almost all of the armour itself silver picking out only the knee and elbow joints/pads in colour. The chest tabard is still coloured either as the primary or secondary colour with the knights individual Blazon.

I also went with some non-basic colours on these ones to try and break up the unit a bit, there isn’t really a theme of colours or shades I am going with so honestly, I am not sure how everything is going to look when completed. I always intended the army to be bright and colourful (clown barf is my reference point) however I still want to make sure they all look coherent as an army. At the midway point of the challenge I think I will do a group shot so you can all tell me if you think it is working or not.

Next up we have the freshmen of the knightly order; the Knights Errant. These guys the colours are pretty similar as before however there are no Blazons and the extravagance of their markings is kept to a minimum. Lovely models these in my opinion and I really enjoyed painting them up. Although without the little plastic nub underneath they are not going to sit snugly on the horses until I glue them, which I am hesitant to do until I am finished with the army and everything is final.

Finally I wanted to make a note on a few things people may have noticed, I haven’t put any pennants or banners on my models yet and with this month I have introduced some inconsistency on how the models have been painted. As mentioned before I am effectively re-learning the hobby after many years away so with each model I am working out how I want the future ones to look. My current plan is that on my mulligan month, when I don’t have enough time to start new models I will go back and add these details and make everything consistent.

This month I am submitting:

117 - 3x Knights of the Realm

38 - Knights Errant Champion

32 - Knights Errant Standard

32 - Knights Errant Musician

For a total of 219 points.

Once again, hope you have enjoyed my entry for this month; I’m certainly enjoying reading all of the others. Also I wanted to give a special mention to those fallen this month, always a shame to see people drop out of a challenge but I hope you guys will stick around and continue commenting and being a part of the challenge even if you can’t join us painting.

-        - AdamH