Miniature knights from the 90'sgame Battle Masters
Aug 9, 2022 15:01:04 GMT
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Post by wouter on Aug 9, 2022 15:01:04 GMT
Well, something different for a change 
Although I'm not really an experience figure modeller by any means - don't think I ever finished one figure in fact . This thread is about well...figures I paint.
During the 90's some tabletop games were commercialesed by MB in cooperation with Games Workshop (the company behind the WarHammer universe).
one of those games was called Battle Masters (Ridderstrijd in Belgium and the Netherlands) and it was a tabletop game where two factions need to attack each other: the Empire (humans) vs the forces of Chaos (Orcs, goblins and so on).
I was thinking for a while to paint the miniatures of the game. They aren't too large so that wouldn't take as much time as larger figures I though...well, I don't think that's going to be true but we'll see.
I decided to do my own thing with it though.
While it's another hot week it's too hot to airbrush my models so figure painting suits the weather quite well.
The human factions I'm going to paint in the colours more or less of historical units.
The first one to tackle are the 'Panther Knights'.
This is how they looked for nearly 30 years (darn I'm getting old lol)
I removed the banners and cleaned the figures. After that a coat of primer and off we go.
This unit I want to paint in the colours of the Count of Flanders and his allies.
Before I painted the plate armour I first wanted to have a go at the coat of arms of the Count of Flanders: the rampant lion/leopard (at the beginning of the age of Heraldry there was no disctinction between the two and the Flemish Lion probably was a Leopard). I based the lion on the one drawn in the 'Wapenboek van Gelre': a book with the coat of arms of all the major factions during the early 1300's.
Needless to say this quite gave me the shivers, but I'm quite happy with the result. It's not as tidy as the pro figure painters would have done, but for a first effort I'm a happy bunny. So, show off time
And a comparison with every day objects to show the sheer size...well, absence of size
Next up: the horse and the plate armour of the Count of Flanders
Although I'm not really an experience figure modeller by any means - don't think I ever finished one figure in fact
. This thread is about well...figures I paint.During the 90's some tabletop games were commercialesed by MB in cooperation with Games Workshop (the company behind the WarHammer universe).
one of those games was called Battle Masters (Ridderstrijd in Belgium and the Netherlands) and it was a tabletop game where two factions need to attack each other: the Empire (humans) vs the forces of Chaos (Orcs, goblins and so on).
I was thinking for a while to paint the miniatures of the game. They aren't too large so that wouldn't take as much time as larger figures I though...well, I don't think that's going to be true but we'll see.
I decided to do my own thing with it though.
While it's another hot week it's too hot to airbrush my models so figure painting suits the weather quite well.
The human factions I'm going to paint in the colours more or less of historical units.
The first one to tackle are the 'Panther Knights'.
This is how they looked for nearly 30 years (darn I'm getting old lol)
I removed the banners and cleaned the figures. After that a coat of primer and off we go.
This unit I want to paint in the colours of the Count of Flanders and his allies.
Before I painted the plate armour I first wanted to have a go at the coat of arms of the Count of Flanders: the rampant lion/leopard (at the beginning of the age of Heraldry there was no disctinction between the two and the Flemish Lion probably was a Leopard). I based the lion on the one drawn in the 'Wapenboek van Gelre': a book with the coat of arms of all the major factions during the early 1300's.
Needless to say this quite gave me the shivers, but I'm quite happy with the result. It's not as tidy as the pro figure painters would have done, but for a first effort I'm a happy bunny. So, show off time
And a comparison with every day objects to show the sheer size...well, absence of size
Next up: the horse and the plate armour of the Count of Flanders
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