Cart and horse

I painted all the bits seperately, and spent quite a bit of time on the base of the thing. I also had a first go round with weathering powder, and used a couple of rust powders on the sword fragments on the base. I'm going to leave all the flock etc once I have put the cart and horse on:


I had to get the horse at the right level for the cart to balance: and drilled a couple of holes into the base, and slid him in. Meanwhile, I used a little bit of green stuff - to be painted up later - to make sure all his feet were touching the ground:



Then I used the rest of the greenstuff to raise the end of the cart to the right level, and stuck the wheels of the cart in place. Rather than drilling these before hand I thought I'd stick them in place and then drill up from the bottom into the cart wheels and glue them in place again.




I'm still not entirely sure what I'm going to put onto the cart: the basic options are a load of reliquary items and chests, and candles and the like, or the grail knight balanced on the barrels. Opinions appreciated!

Squires

Most of these guys were already painted, but I wanted to go over them and titivate their bases. I used flock, bushy-material, and a couple of different colours of litchen to give the impression of men who are scouting ahead. I think they still need touching up here and there, and I want to go over the arrow flecks and do something a little more interesting with them: but pleased with the improved colourfulness the figures have, and pleased with the blue-looking water. I also cut off a little of some of the figure's bases and aded little bits of water, so that there was a nicer mix of colours in there.

Blessing Markers

I wanted something special to indicate the Blessing, and settled on these Sisters of Battle bits. First time round I made the water green and swampy, which got somewhat lost with the green flock around them, and so to add a nice dose of colour to the army bases turned them blue. This will hopefully give the whole army a cleaner look as well as adding a nice strong colour to the army's pallette.



One of the centre pieces of the army is going to be the Grail Reliquary. I have two of these, but wanted to do something a bit more substantial. I decided on a cart, and here are a couple of work in progress shots:

The 10th Crusade: The Return of Edmund FitzLacey, The Black Prince

Now, my army for the Hong Kong GT this May was going to be a dogs of war army based on the survivors of Bohsenfels...but thanks to GW Dogs of War have been taken off the list of tournament legal armies. A problem? Not at all. Opportunity! Time to re-paint my Bretonnian army, and to paint up Edmund FitzLacey, The Black Prince as he moves from young errant at the time of the Albion Campaign to grizzled veteran.

The Theme
The Tenth Crusade...... a blind cobbler's son has had a vision of a holy grail, leading to a massed movement of monks and peasants, led by the half-mad Abbot Franklin. As they plunge into the wilds, companies of knights come to their aid, led by Edmund FitzLacy, The Black Prince.

The Concept
Brets were my first army, way back when they were just a White Dwarf list. I revamped them for the Albion Campaign, and have been alternating between them and my dogs of war ever since. I'd gone for a grungy look first time round, trying to play down their bright and ponsy look, but this time I'm going to try and combine that colour and pageantry with a dirty and travel-stained look.

I have a few figures already painted upto a decent standard: mainly the skirmishing archers. So with the Hong Kong GT set for the second weekend in May, I've lots of painting to get done.