AdamH's Brets in le house! (215 pts)

I made it!!

You might look at this small volume of models and think to yourself “Adam, that isn’t exactly a lot of models you have painted there, I do that every week” and I would say to you “well that is kind of rude but I get what you are saying, that isn’t a lot of models for a month’s work.” However, what you don’t know about me is that I am an extremely slow painter. What you see below is the result of me painting at least one hour a day for the last month, frequently more on the weekends. I know they might not look good enough for that sort of time but here we are.

For me this represents a huge step towards finally having a fully painted army, which in my on-and-off 25 years of collecting would be a first. If I can keep this pace going, I am hopeful to finally have something to bring to the table that I am proud of.

Soppy sentiments aside this week I painted three Knights of the Realm and six Mounted Yeomen. The Knights I have kept very simple intentionally as I have never painted anything similar before so I wanted to get the basics down first before trying anything more complex. The plan is to do at least another month of these basic guys before I try anything more interesting pattern wise. That said I tried to make them look nice with some bright colours and simple patterns, following the suggestions in the 5^th Edition Bretonnian book of using combination colours of white or yellow and then another colour. Hopefully these look simple, yet striking.

Next was the six Mounted Yeomen, now with all the peasants in my army I am going to be painting them in these browns and greens as I imagine them all to be part of Bertrand’s band of brigands defending their land alongside the local nobility. To this end I used muted colours to represent the natural fabrics and sort-of camouflage that they would be using to stay hidden in the local woods and forests.

The very keen eyed amongst you may notice that a few details remain unpainted, such as the eyes on the Yeomen, this is deliberate as I am still getting back into the swing of painting and don’t want to push myself and end up ruining the figures. I plan to go back at the end of the challenge and tidy up these little details but for now at least they look OK at tabletop height.

So to sum up, this month I have submitted:

117 - 3x Knights of the Realm

98 - 6x Mounted Squires with bows and musician

For a total of 215 points.

To all my fellow participants I hope you are enjoying the challenge so far, it is great to see all of your fabulous models being shown and can’t wait to see what else is coming. To everyone else following along with us I hope you have enjoyed the show thus far!

-          AdamH