I still think I need more commanders to my force and if we manage to get our campaign games rolling I will need to have different commanders to choose from or if one bites the dust in the campaing and so on.
It was fun to give the models alittle extra time, more then I usually do. I know lots of stuff and details that I missed or skipped on these but it will sure do. The line of unpainted models are still long and in a strange way allways seems to grow even though I keep painting. That Is strange...
With the clothes on the commander i started with a dark gray, and
used black to tone it down. I then used silver for the details in the
fabrics and used a blue wash to give it a tone of blue on the silver
details. I think I should have worked a little more on the lightning on
the black/gray before aplying the silver details.
The
banner is homemade, I used some pictures I found on the net with nice
looking calagrafic writings but I see now that the original picture I
used was to bad quality as you can easiy see the pixels. It turned out
as a nice banner but it pulls the overall feeling of the command base
down a little.
And by the same time I painted the
command base I also painted a dismounted Mamluk. I tried to give him the
same level of details as the command base. Its allways nice to have
some miniatures with better details in a unit, to add to the units
overall effect.
The dismounted Mamluk will act as a bodyguard or maybe be mixed into a unit until I can get a whole unit of them... To bad Perrys dont do nearly enought Muslim miniatures to my taste...
The miniatures are all Perrys, and as you might allready know they sure knows how to sculpt...
I think they makes the best Crusader era miniatures on the market and I think they are amongs the cheepest to... The only downside with Perry miniatures are the horrible casts, they are full of flashes and it takes some time to clean up the miniatures befor you can start paint them.
Superbe réalisation, le socle et la peinture de très belle qualité. Un très grand bravo à toi. A bientôt Christian et bonne fêtes de fin d'année.
ReplyDeleteNice work on these - also I like your choice for the command base. The elevated base with the black edge gives it almost a vignette feeling.
ReplyDeleteFab job on on these! The calligraphy on the arrow case looks fantastic.
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