What a snail

So I’ve finished my first Bretonian knight, its only been sat around modeled up and sprayed white for around 14 years or so! This is the model I was painting as I saw 2021 in and I’ve now finished him off.

Now finishing this model ended be different than I had first thought, and I blame this on TIM and IRO. (If you don’t know these fine hobbyists please look at their blogs both produce some top notch models but both in different ways). So I was listening to a pod cast by IRO where he was interviewing TIM, and some TIM said really made me think. He was talking about making a model trully yours, either by doing conversions so that it was unique or by doing free hand on it. Well I often do what I would call minor conversions so for example this models actually uses a Pegasus body rather than a standard horse, hence the placement of the sheilds and the riders right hand should be holding a standard not a lance.

I had also already done some free hand, but nothing I would call too complex just copying the cup symbol from his cloak to other parts on him. But if I wanted to do a trully unique model.like TIM had discoused I felt I needed to go further. So I had a look at a book of medieval patterns and that gave me some inspiration.

So what I decided to try and do was paint a pattern into the cloth on the back.of the horse that looked like it was partnered cloth, so I wanted subtle colour changes and to keep the flow of the cloth looking correct, and this is what I got.

Not perfect, the circles are not round enough (or at least not even) but to my eyes at least it looks like a cloth pattern so fairly happy, ofcourse doing on the second side is always harder!

I also put something on the cloth at the end of his lance.

So not what I had expected to do with the model but I happy with it and glad to of tried something a little different. So big thanks to TIM and IRO for the inspiration!

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The base I tried to do to resemble a muddy field, not sure the mud bit has worked perfectly but its ok, and the snail more than makes up for it!

And incase anyone is wondering about the clear plastic, I had to use it to get it to stand up like that. Not idealy but not to bade for a 14 or so year old conversion!