Medievals: Kingdom of Jerusalem & Salah Ah-Din

[Squirrel]

Great work as usual Nik

Cheers,

Kev

[nikharwood]

Thanks folks...house was invaded yesterday & into today by relatives, but have had a thoroughly pleasant afternoon (although, again, got carried away with painting & forgot to take pics as I went...):

Commands:








Crossbows:










Infantry:










I think these will probably get one wash before bunging shield transfers on & then another before a fast final highlight...I want 'em dark & dirty 

[Leon]

Now these look cracking en masse!   

[Hertsblue]

Medievals look great en masse, Nik.

Can I make one suggestion, though? I know you're only snapping them for internal consumption, but photograph them against a plain backgound. They stand out so much better. Small sheet of plain grass-paper would do the trick. 

[nikharwood]

Can I make one suggestion, though? I know you're only snapping them for internal consumption, but photograph them against a plain backgound. They stand out so much better. Small sheet of plain grass-paper would do the trick.  

Yep - good point, but what I tend to do is WIP / Painting Diary pics on my painting board like this & then once they're finished they get lobbed on-table for the pretty pics...unless you'd like to see the WIP / Diary pics on plainer backgrounds as well? [grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter...more work for me...grumble, grumble etc  ]

[fred.]

Yeah, pull your finger out Harwood ! 

Again a huge volume of figures in a couple of days. Is the red and white scheme a historical one, or a looks good one? I always like red and white halves or quarters - my first Human Fantasy army was in red and white, far too many years ago.

[nikharwood]

  You're right mate - what a slacker!

The colour scheme here owes more to Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, Orlando Bloom & the delectable Eva Green) than historical sources...unashamedly wanting some Hollywood WMA action on my table 

[Rob]

Nick you show just what is possible to the rest of us. My painting is ssooooooooooh painfully slow, and is OK for WW2/khaki stuff but decidedly average for bright uniform periods.

I've looked at your wiki painting guide which seems to be the method you have used here. I was wondering would you change anything such as the priming if you were doing a Napoleonic army?

Cheers 

[Nosher]

Shame I'm not able to make Nikfest this year - we could have a massive Crusader scrap with our joint Crusader/Saladin armies.

Dont tell Leon but mine are MM However they did get bought as a present!

[nikharwood]

Nick you show just what is possible to the rest of us. My painting is ssooooooooooh painfully slow, and is OK for WW2/khaki stuff but decidedly average for bright uniform periods.

I've looked at your wiki painting guide which seems to be the method you have used here. I was wondering would you change anything such as the priming if you were doing a Napoleonic army?

Cheers 

Thanks Rob - too kind 

I painted my Naps using exactly the same process - although that was years ago & I've speeded up  & refined my techniques since then; the only thing I *might* vary - depending on colour scheme - would be to do a grey overbrush [instead of brown] onto the black undercoat - I did this with my SYW Austrians with their white uniforms [have a look here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,709.0.html ]

Shame I'm not able to make Nikfest this year - we could have a massive Crusader scrap with our joint Crusader/Saladin armies.

Dont tell Leon but mine are MM However they did get bought as a present!

Shocker mate - but don't worry, I'm sure your secret's safe. It's not like you've broadcast it on the internet or anything.

Oh. 

[Rob]

I painted my Naps using exactly the same process - although that was years ago & I've speeded up  & refined my techniques since then; the only thing I *might* vary - depending on colour scheme - would be to do a grey overbrush [instead of brown] onto the black undercoat - I did this with my SYW Austrians with their white uniforms [have a look here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,709.0.html ]

Thanks Nick. I'll give it a try. I'll use the grey overbrush. I was thinking I might have a go with a dark brown undercoat for cavalry instead of black to speed up the cavalry.

Cheers 

[nikharwood]

Decals applied, re-washed shields, base edges painted & everything spray matt-varnished = done 



Lots of on-table pics here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4706.0.html

[mollinary]

Sorry for turning up on this thread so late that it is practically  posthumous, but I must admit I am in awe of this army.  Quantity, quality, and speed. What an incredible combination.

Mollinary

[nikharwood]

Sorry for turning up on this thread so late that it is practically  posthumous, but I must admit I am in awe of this army.  Quantity, quality, and speed. What an incredible combination.

Mollinary

Thanks Mollinary 

That's it - they're getting into battle this weekend....watch this space

[Rothgar68]

I'm really digging the speedy painting method.. I'm going to have to try this method out!

Keep on truckin'!