Medievals: Kingdom of Jerusalem & Salah Ah-Din

[nikharwood]

Right - following on from this thread: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2567.0 I thought I'd start these off this weekend & post pics up ASAP as a prime motivator to get these done...so, these are 1000 point armies for Warmaster Medieval - all on 40x20 bases:

So - from black undercoat:


...both armies get an overbrush of Beasty Brown - this will provide instant shading, depth & lift:
















Then the bases get a heavy drybrush of Leather Brown:






Finally a drybrush of Desert Yellow:








I'll be painting the Arabs first...

[nikharwood]

Not working today, so have managed to make a start on the army of Salah-Ah-Din

Siege Towers:

Wood: Leather Brown & Bleached Bone
Hide: Dark Fleshtone & Leather Brown & Bleached Bone





"I can see the pub from here..."

[nikharwood]

Command:

[nikharwood]

Faris - heavy cavalry:

Clothing: Dark Fleshtone => Scab Red => Scab Red + Bleached Bone 60:40
Flesh: Bronzed Flesh => Gyrphonne Sepia spot-wash
Armour: Chainmail => Mithril Silver
Detail: Khaki => Bleached Bone
Leather / Spear highlight: Leather Brown

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

and in the same time I've painted 2 15mm 88s!   

[nikharwood]

  [oh, there's 4 siege towers altogether BTW  ]

Horse Archers:

[Hertsblue]

I like the idea of mounting the horse archers diagonally on the bases. Gives less of a "ranked" impression. 

[Arsenus]

So cool! Great job, Nik!

[nikharwood]

I like the idea of mounting the horse archers diagonally on the bases. Gives less of a "ranked" impression.  

Also means that they're pointing their bows towards the enemy - which, psychologically at least, is going to help my dice-rolling  

Right - bit hectic tonight, so only managed these [& the wash is still a bit wet...]

Archers:

Colours pretty-much as before; the grey is a Black + Bleached Bone mix [with extra BB for the highlight]











Just 6 units of Spearmen to do and it's onto the Kingdom...

[Nosher]

Looking really good Nik

[Hertsblue]

Also means that they're pointing their bows towards the enemy - which, psychologically at least, is going to help my dice-rolling  

The only thing that would help my dice rolling is a six on every face... 

[nikharwood]

The only thing that would help my dice rolling is a six on every face... 

Mate - that's not going to help when you're playing Warmaster 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No - fgor warmaster - 2 sets, 1 with 6's only for combat, and 1 with 1's only for everything else.

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Must admit, I've never played Warmaster    I did come across one set that specified eight-sided dice. At which point I moved on. 

[nikharwood]

Spearmen: