A Knight and his followers

[tyrionhalfman]

Nice use of the old plastic GW archers.sounds fiddly with the bow strings but the result looks well worth it.

[Mo!]

Lovely colouring! Is the mounted knight a conversion?

[mweaver]

I agree with the previous posters - well done!

-Michael

[Modhail]

Aw, shucks, you'll make me blush!

Dijit: I...Um...Ack...Curses! Up until your post I wasn't even considering building a castle... (Looking up ideas and references, and thinking hard if/where I could store one.)

Mo!, the mounted knight is an unconverted out of production GW Bretonnian knight from the mid/late 90s. I got lucky and had a mounted and foot figure with the same crest on their helmet.

Oh, the green stuff work on the banner bearer is finished, that on the squire is about half way done. When the squire is all converted, I'll get them primered and ready to slot in the next opening in my painting queue.*

*:please note that my painting queue isn't as orderly as the word "queue" implies, it's more of a large milling mob where sometimes things get pushed to the front, often on purpose, but equally often by coincidence as well...

[Jorny]

The bowstrings and arrows really makes a huge difference to the plastic Brettonian Archers! I have bunch of these from the 5th edition box stashed away. Think I'll have to have a go at them...

[stone-cold-lead]

The bowstrings and arrows really makes a huge difference to the plastic Brettonian Archers! I have bunch of these from the 5th edition box stashed away. Think I'll have to have a go at them...

Yeah, the bowstrings work really well. I've tended not to bother doing them as they sometimes don't suit the models, and you have to choose your string material very carefully. After seeing these though I might have a stab at stringing my Bretonnian bows and crossbows that I've had sitting ready to paint for the past year.

[white knight]

Lovely brushwork! 

I too love the Bretonnians of that era (before we got the current dross).

I'm planning to get some of Paul Hicks' Claymore Castings figures to mix in, as they appear close enough in style and period:



Though I've also been tempted by the Front Rank HYW range, as those are a good match to nineties GW in terms of size and bulk:

[Lowtardog]

The BTD not Bretonnians also fit in very well with Front Rank and old GW Bretonnians

[stone-cold-lead]

The BTD not Bretonnians also fit in very well with Front Rank and old GW Bretonnians

And if you don't mind a few pumpkin heads and the slightly cruder sculpting then BTD's HYW models fit pretty well.

[dijit]

Glad to be of inspiration 

[Doomsdave]

Gorgeous work.  That first Knight is simply magnificent. 

[Modhail]

Thanks for the suggestions on alternate sources, some real beauties among those.
 I've still got a bit of stock of the old Bretonnians, not a armys worth but enough to build a second retinue at least I think. But it's good to have those other sources to fall back on. I like the look of the BTD not-Bretonnians, they're closest to the look I seek in a Knight, but don't they have a bit of reputation concerning (speed/lack of) delivery and customer service?
Something for the future really, I think I shall be needing monsters and villains to oppose the knight and my (growing-but-unpainted) stable of other adventurers first.
Hmm, I should really take proper index of my collection so far, get a proper look at what I have already...

[Daeothar]

Hmm, I should really take proper index of my collection so far, get a proper look at what I have already...

Don't we all! 

[Modhail]

You know what the worst is? I was only talking about the Dungeoneering/Chanson de Geste project part...
I've already gone through and indexed several of my other sub-collections for other games/projects in the past, for some time already I've divided up the greater wargaming collection into sub-collections to keep it all overseeable...