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Post by Charles on Apr 19, 2019 9:47:35 GMT
Luckily I have only a few 15mm Essex mounted medieval knights as the horses, though well modelled, have saddles without any cantles on them, and I have had to add these myself using card stuck on and then soaked in superglue. This is fiddly, but well worth the trouble. Some of the poses are irritating, like the knight with the lance sloped sideways - the only use for such a model is a command figure with the standard bearer well back so the other chap's lance does not hit him in the face!
Then my favourite rave is the fact that 'Teutonic knights' are made with fancy headgear that in rerality the Order's strict rules forbade, wearing cloaks that in battle would have been a serious encumbrance and riding caparisoned or armoured horses that the Order never used. I make these comments after checking German-language sources and spoken to the museum staff at Marlborg (formerly Marienburg) in Poland. It's sad to see so many beautifully-painted Teutonic armies using figures that repeat all these errors.
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Post by Charles on Apr 19, 2019 9:13:33 GMT
As someone else said, choice of paint is a personal thing - like toilet paper! I use Humbrol and Revell enamels, and for metal colours their acrylics. I do not like acrylics generally as they dry too fast and are more fragile than enamels. I can get fine washes with thinned-down enamel, which seems impossible with acrylics unless a whole pile of inks are also bought. I have just emigrated to Spain and suspect that in the warmer weather even enamel paints wil dry so fast that painting at certain times of the day will be difficult. I find some of the acrylic colours far too bright for a medieval army - I am doing Holy Roman Empire based around the Battle of Worringen in 1288, and doubt whether really bright reds would be available, for example. Straying off the subject slightly, I also take pains to paint the shield in a darker, richer, colour than the cloth on a figure, rather than have everything in the identical shade - too me this just looks stupid.
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Post by Charles on Apr 19, 2019 9:03:28 GMT
I still paint with enamels for the most part, and acylics only for the metal colours and bases ('cos they dry quicker). Therefore, to get off the paint and white spirit from brushes when using any of these paints, some form of soap is needed, even for acrylic residues. I have a post of old bits of soap topped up with water, though liquid soap straight from its dispenser could be used.
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Post by Charles on Sept 5, 2017 11:57:42 GMT
Unpainted 15mm medieval mounted knights by Medus ex-TTG
Some without cast lances, some have undergone paint stripping in caustic soda.
13 x MEC 2 knight with leather greaves, open face 22 x MEC 4 Frankish knight with sugar loaf helm and ailettes 11 x MEC 6 (no longer sold by Medus) quilted horse, knight in kettle hat 1 x MEC8 as MEC4 on horse in mail armour
Total 47 figures, price £ 25.00 Sterling plus postage / insurance. I am willing to sell piecemeal.
Thanks
SOLD
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Post by Charles on Sept 5, 2017 11:56:01 GMT
Unpainted 6mm medieval figures
Ros
594 Mounted knights including commanders / standard bearers 240 Dismounted knights including commanders 48 Billmen 48 Spearmen 96 Frankish infantry 450 Dismounted sergeants including commanders MCR 17 144 12th century infantry including commanders MCR 9 96 Welsh spearmen MCR 11 48 Peasants MCR 19 144 Crossbowmen MCR 15 192 English longbowmen MCR 18 48 Welsh longbowmen MCR 12
The items with product codes are still in packets
Siege equipment
1 trebuchet, 2 ballista and crews
Irregular Miniatures
47 Mounted knights in strips of 4 or 5 abreast 43 Dismounted knights including commanders 48 Spearmen in strips of 6 abreast 24 Longbowmen in strips of 6 abreast 72 Crossbowmen in strips of 6 abreast 60 Spearmen in strips of 6 abreast 48 Light spearmen in strips of 6 abreast
Notional value is £ 124.00 Sterling, but I will sell for £ 50.00 plus postage and insurance.
Also available, 6 mm scale deciduous and evergreen trees – please reply for details.
SOLD
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