Mostly Puny Humies

OK. You're forgiven.

Your title reminds me of an image I sometimes see in a sig over at Warseer; Codex: Puny Humans'

Great job as always. There's something about personalising a Mordheim warband that's strangely satisfying for me, especially in adapting characters as the campaign continues.

Good luck with your campaign. Even if they are only 'puny humans'.

Wow, I'd be be very happy with that paint job and warband! The knight alone is amazing. What colours did you use for the clothing? The layering is immaculate! Very well done. The damsels look amazing too. Very impressed!

Looks awesome! One day, when I have twice the money and 10 times the talent I'm going to start a Brettonian force. I think they'd be so much fun to paint with all the heraldry.

Thanks guys!

@Snugg: I probably won't be updating the minis as we play, but I do hope to replace the squire models eventually with more Bretonnian-looking figures. And hopefully with better weaponry. I do expect to equip my characters with the equipment on the models. Apart from armour I'm pretty much there already when the game starts - sadly the start might be months away. But at least that gives me time to paint the whole band! I spent much of yesterday kitbashing four more knights. I'll have two with two-handed swords, a leader with a flail, the guy in this post, and then a spare for when I, hopefully, roll Lad's Got Talent. I plan for my fifth starting knight to be this guy: http://www.maelstrom...bnl_cha_003_000 I've ordered him weeks ago, but sadly he's not in stock, and they appear to be slow at ordering new stock in :/

@Spawn Man: Many thanks for your compliments, from a painter like you that's high praise The clothing is painted using the following colours: Blood Red, Blazing Orange, Fiery Orange, and Sunburst Yellow. I have no idea what the new names for equivalent colours are. I started from a mixture of Blood Red and Blazing Orange, to pure Blazing Orange, then mixing in more and more Fiery Orange for the bright orange spots, possibly adding a little sunburst yellow at the lightest areas. The yellow is simply adding more and more sunburst yellow, stopping just shy of pure Sunburst Yellow. I think all the orange beneath it gives a much warmer, more appealing colour, than the yellow would have on its own.

@Grim Stoki: I've mentioned elsewhere on the forums that Bretonnia was my first Warhammer army. But this guy is the first knight I'm completely happy with. I always found it to be an extremely intimidating army to paint. But I think I might finally be just barely skilled enough, that I could do it and actually enjoy my own army Especially the idea of painting so many unique heraldries is a scary prospect, I think. I'm planning on doing it only halfways. I have this idea of painting the knightly characters with their own colours, and then have each regiment of regular knights and peasants wear the colours of one of the characters. I hope that will give the characteristic colourfulness of Bretonnia, while being less overwhelming to paint

Yes, Brets are pretty hard to paint - the original models are extremely boring so unless you spend a lot of time on patterns, you'll end up with a terribly boring army. I've given up on painting mine for now to focus on my Dwarfs and O&Gs.

The colours are very warm which is why I asked - I am red-green colour-blind so I have a hard time painting the reds to a satisfactory standard, so ask for the paints whenever I see something I really like. And me likey!

For your last knight you should get the mounted jester model that was released 5th-6th edition! He's classic and he's riding around on a fake horse head on stick. Can't remember his name, but he'd be pretty cool for a Mordheim theme.

Haha, that's a good idea, if I can find him! Isn't he called Julian le Jongleur or something like that?

I forgot one thing about the clothing. I paint from a black undercoat, so I first painted a single layer skull white on all the orange/yellow areas, and THEN what I described.

I actually rather like the Bretonnian models, much better than the old plastics anyway. But you're definitely right that you need to add the patterns yourself, for them to be really interesting to look at.
My enjoyment of their current plastics are probably helped by two factors: 1) I haven't painted them yet (except for the knight) 2) Once upon a time I painted something like 60 of the old monopose bowmen. To this day I don't know why...

A-hoy-hoy fellow dwarfs! Sorry I've been MIA for so long but I'm back now.
That is some very impressive painting Equlan, you are definitely just getting better and better!

Thanks a lot Grabgold

I trust by now you've seen the fundraiser by Avatars of War?