Bretonnians - The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 4

The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 4

I quickly knocked up a unit of Men at Arms.

I also found some Shields for my knights so have been able to finish off the Heraldry on the knights that didn't have shields which are shown in the pictures on the earlier pages.

Anyway Men at Arms Unit #1   I still need to do the Banner and of course base them.  I intend to do all the bases in one go after everything is painted.

Next on the painting table are a couple of Damsels (converted) and a unit of Longbowmen.

All C&C welcome.

Cheers

*EDIT*

A quick picture of the rear of the Men at Arms because i realised the shields cover most of the models

Bretonnians - The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 3

The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 3

Ok folks time for a little update, sorry for the delay in getting back to this little army build.

Once again sorry for the dodgy camera work.

I still don't have any Bretonnian shields so am still unable to finish the Heraldry or attach the riders to their horses properly.

My first standard bearer.  Obviously the flag and pole have not been done yet.  At the moment I am toying with the idea of completely removing the Standard and adding a scratch built one.  

Musician, the idea is to have the tapestry hanging from the instruments in the colours / heraldry of the Lord .   Not convinced yet though, so any ideas / advice most welcome.  I plan to add a lot more detail to it rather then just plain red and blue but like i say at the moment I'm not sure on it.

This group shot

The Army as it stands so far.

So folks, as ever comments and critiques welcome.

Advice on what to do with the musician and standard most welcome.   

Cheers.

Bretonnians - The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 2

The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 2

Now you will notice that these ones don't have shields yet.   Its because I don't actually have any shields.  So if anyone out there has any Bretonnian Shields they want to sell off just let me know.

Once I get hold of the shields I can finish the Heraldry on them and attach the riders to their mounts.

So by my reckoning to keep painting them so as to keep duplicates of colours to a minimum I still have left to do

Blue and Black

Blue and Purple (mmm that could look gross)

Red and Yellow

Red and Purple (again that could look gross)

Purple and yellow

Black and White

White and Yellow (mmm maybe not)

Have I missed any?

So this group looks like this

and the Army so far

Once again thanks for looking.

Bretonnians - The Rise of a Bretonnian Army Part 1

The Rise of a Bretonnian Army

I Shall log this build from its humble beginning through to its completion.

I must admit that when I started I had no idea how Bretonnians play, what are must have's and what are must avoid items.  I just went with what I liked..

So without further ado I present my Bretonnian Army.

(Sorry for the dodgy blurry pictures)

Ok so the more astute of you will be thinking to yourselves "That's not a Bretonnian army, that's a Khorne Daemon army."

Correct it is a Daemon army.

Now I said I would start at the beginning so here goes.

At the moment the army I use is a Skaven horde, features elsewhere in these forums.  I play my Skaven very defensively.  Now don't get me wrong I love my Skaven but I have to admit, although I like the way they are painted, they do not really stand out.  They are a mass sea of brown.   

So what to do?   I wanted my next army to be as far opposite my Skaven as could possibly be.

So out I went and brought a mono Khorne Daemon army.  Small, Offensive with no shooting or magic.  Surely the Army would be perfect for me.

Well no it wasn't.   I played it twice, once at 2250 points and once at 1500 points and found it to be rather boring to play with and against.  Of course I mean no offence to all those Daemon players out there.  It was just not what I was after.  In addition it seems like I had replaced my mass brown sea with a red sea, all be a smaller one.

Anyway at Gauntlet 2009 I played against a Bretonnian army and had one of the best games ever.  Part due to my opponent being one of the most sporting I have had the pleasure of playing.

So I started to look around at the various Bretonnian figures available.  

Anyway to cut a long story short I came across someone who wanted rid of their Bretonnian army and was after an army to replace it.

Next thing I know I have swapped my Daemon Army for this

It looked ideal and we were both happy.  I offered to finish painting the Daemon army as I knew it would help him get a fully painted army on the table.

Now some of the Bretonnian figures were painted.   Not badly, just not by me.   

Now I don't really like entering Tournaments with unpainted figures or even figures painted by someone else.  It just seems a little rude to me that when a part of your score is comprised of painting and you haven't tried to do it yourself.

So the Painted figures ranged from this

Through this

to this.

So I set about the repainting of them.

First I had to re-position all the lances.  I wanted all my lances to be raised up.  Basically for three reasons. 

•  It would help tie the army together
•  It makes it easier to rank them up
•  It will fit in better with my planned display base

Next up was to remove the moulded grass that connects the horses feet to the ground.

The riders needed removing and old glue had to be scrapped away.

Mould line were then removed removed.   

Next up a light undercoat of Black.  I find Black is far more forgiving then white when it comes to undercoating.  I figured that to paint the yellows and whites I would be after I could just build  them up in layers over the black.

So anyway I painted this chap as figure one.   Basically a test piece to see where I was going with the colours.

Now some of the original second hand figures were painted with green cloth.  I don't much like green cloth and historically green was not overly popular until later medieval times... but I digress.

So figure one down I had to decide on a limited pallet.  With all the knights destined to have their own heraldry I didn't want the army to collapse into a riot of colour.

In the end I decided I would go with four colours and two metals.

Black

Red

Blue

Purple

White

Yellow

Anyway shortly after Knight one I decided on doing this chap.

Followed by this one

And then this one.

So I now have four Knights down and am working on the horse for the next few.

At the moment I have no idea what my army will consist of, but know that I will need Knight in a plenty.  I also want to include a couple of blocks of Men at Arms, possibly with spears.

I also plan to scratch build a Trebuchet so that its actually in scale.... but that's another days work.

Welcome

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.  

 I guess I should start with a little bit of an explanation as to why the name Unit57.   From as far back as I can remember in every skirmish or gang type game I have played the name Unit57 has always featured.  From when Necromunder was first released many aeons ago through to my Dark-Age Core force.

I really have no idea why it started, suffice to say that the name has stuck with me for the last 25 years or so and hopefully it will do me well for at least the next 25.

Now I must confess that I am not completely 100% over this whole blog thing.  My knowledge of computers and technology is limited to say the least but I shall do my best to keep a track of the projects I have done and am working on.

So, because I'm so late coming to the blogging party I guess a good place to start would be back in time in order for me to get some content up here whilst I work out what I'm doing and where I'm going.

Don't panic, I do not intend to go back to when I first started getting into the hobby, rather I shall go back to when I initially moved to Australia because that is really when I started afresh.  

Back then the only game I really played was Confrontation by Rackham.   

As you will see I now have my fingers in oh so many more pies.