dimanche 14 mai 2017

Crusaders in Middle East, 12th century AD

Hi! Today, a few pictures related to the medieval Crusades in the Middle East.
If you follow that blog, you probably already saw my Templar Knights at fight with Ayyubid Ghulams.

This time I chose to paint an old reference - Italeri Crusaders. Do you remember them ?

Let's begin with the knights:



The third mini on the right is a Strelets Turcopole


The Italeri knights are nice figures with interesting details, but not very accurate. The heraldry patterns are engraved on the minis, which is a problem when you have several times the same poses, because you're not supposed to see the same knight several times on a battlefield (or anywhere else) !

I tried to cut off the pattern of the white and red (Argent et Gueules) knight, but it is rather difficult, and the result is not as good as I wanted.

I also painted two men at arms on foot:






Still a lot of work before I have a complete DBA army :)

19 commentaires:

  1. Très réussis, félicitations!

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  2. Merci! C'est un post un peu modeste, je ne peins pas beaucoup ces jours-ci :)

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  3. Thats good, modest posts is What many of us can make!!

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    1. Writing posts in a blog is a winter task, it's much more difficult in spring or summer :)

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  4. ExcellentsStart to a terrific DBA army.

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  5. Beautiful. Added Your blog to observed.

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  6. klasse figuren wieder mal eine ganz herrvoragende arbeit von dir

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  7. Very nice! Knights are difficult because of the heraldry so I liked the Italeri, but you are right-no two should be the same.

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    1. I would prefer to paint the heraldric patterns by hand :)

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  8. Very nice work. I love the opportunities you have on knights to paint them.

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  9. Wonderfull painted figures!

    Greetings
    Peter

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