Knights of the Realm - 1

I thought I'd post close-up pictures of my various units and models as a way of letting people get a better glimpse of the army that they see in my battle reports. If you want to see this picture in more detail, go to my 'Knights' page (link in the lower right corner). When you see pictures there, you can click on them to enlarge them. Anyway, I'll start off with this one:


These Knights of the Realm were some of the first ones I painted since I got back into the WFB hobby in 2008. In all honesty, I don't like them very much - which really sucks when you put so much work into painting these little buggers. I find the old style shields hard to paint - or at least, hard to make look right. And I can't seem to find a way to make decals look right on the old style horses; they just look out of place to me. The only way I've found that looks good is to paint a background heraldic shield, and then put the decal on top of that. I'm open to any thoughts or ideas about other ways to make the old style horse design look better.

Overall, the color scheme for my knights is simple: only Primary colors (red, yellow, blue) as well as black and white. Well, obviously the black and purple knight breaks these rules. I painted these guys before deciding on that color scheme. I have a couple other knights that 'break the rules' - and one of these days I might add a couple more so I can put them all in one unit so they can all break the rules together. The rebels!