Sir Jean de Cleese joins my retinue *more figures page two*

[Malamute]

Sir Jean de Cleese joins my retinue of knights for Fistful of Lead or Lion Rampant along with his trusty bowman Eric the Idle.

Sir Jean is a Crusader Miniatures figure with a Fireforge right arm. I wanted to match a dismounted knight I already have who is wielding a two handed axe. I like to have foot and mounted versions for my FFoL skirmish games.

Eric is an old Black Tree Design figure with the addition of a Greenstuff  hood.

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid 

[Silent Invader]

Sir Jean is very nicely done, in a denim blue. 

[Elk101]

That's a real cracker. Lovely work.

[Ray Rivers]

The heraldry on the knight is a treat and I like the way you blend in the white of the horses socks. Well done, Nick!

The archer is also very cool. The flesh especially came out well!

Great additions!

[Captain Blood]

Handsome.

Did you pin his new arm? Or just use lots of superglue?

[Romark]

They look splendid,another fine start  to your new retinue

[Juan]

Very nice, sir. Great painting work!

[has.been]

Were you not tempted to do Sir Jean de Cleese totally in black... missing both arms, oh
& missing both legs?

[flatpack]

It is merely a scratch.

[gamer Mac]

Nice to see you painting stuff

[Vagabond]

That's an amazingly neat paint and subtle job on Sir Jean but it looks as if he's cropped the ears on his poor horse. Probably with some enthusiastic swinging of his axe.

How did you get the shape of the 5 dots, they appear to have flatish edges as if you painted a big splodge of yellow and then overpainted with dark blue, if so that seems a very clever way of doing it.

[Malamute]

That's an amazingly neat paint and subtle job on Sir Jean but it looks as if he's cropped the ears on his poor horse. Probably with some enthusiastic swinging of his axe.

How did you get the shape of the 5 dots, they appear to have flatish edges as if you painted a big splodge of yellow and then overpainted with dark blue, if so that seems a very clever way of doing it.

Yes, the ears bug me too, badly defined on the casting I am afraid. I’m too lazy to bulk them out with Greenstuff.

The flowers are trial and error, lots of practice and repainting. The secret is thinning the paint and lots of layers to build up the colour. If the paint is thin and you are not happy with the charge when you first paint it  Just wipe it off and start again. If you don’t thin your paint you won’t be able to do this and the surface will have a build up of uneven layers with each failed attempt. I have learned this the hard way.
First the darker base coat of blue on the whole figure, I use the Foundry triads, Then  the first coat of yellow, dotting in the circles. Then a tidy up with the dark blue base coat to try and get the spacing correct etc. Next a lighter dot of yellow. Whilst that is drying I paint in the mid coat of blue on the whole model, carefully filling in around the circles. Next a final dot of the yellow highlight and the blue highlight on the raised areas.

A good mat varnish helps to flatten everything out and bind the colours together. I am no expert and there are plenty of people out there who can paint these way better than I can, but I’m happy with the results. They certainly look good on the gaming table en masse. 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Excellent painting, Sir Jean looks the business!   

[DintheDin]

Sir Jean is a job of high quality, but the humble figure of Eric almost steals the show! Very nice shading and perfect face!