Getting back into it, Brettonians?

[Stormwind]

True, but I believe the Old Glory one might fit on 3 bases stuck together as is the norm for supersize units like the Grand War Altar.

[athensfantasy]

You are absolutely right:

4. Trebuchet. The model must be mounted onto a base 40mm
frontage and 60mm depth - note that this is equivalent to three
standard sized Warmaster bases glued together.

[forbes]

The Kallistra trebuchet is a good size - and good value at 2 for £6 - and come with medieval crew useable for Bretonians.

[andys]

At last I've made a start! 

Super-glued the hero on the pegasus together and undercoated him and the character pack in white.
Undercoated the Pendraken knights in black. Thank goodness for the photo on their website - these old eyes were struggling to pick out the detail. Thank goodness 2 for the wife's daylight lamp! I don't recall it being so difficult the last time I painted stuff this small!

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/EMM1-p2888/

I definitely need a bigger variety of primary colours. Looks like I'll be stopping off at the model shop on the way home tomorrow for some yellow and green as a minimum. At the moment I've only got red and blue and the bits of barding/shields I've painted so far, despite doing different areas in different colours, will look too uniform when put together as a unit. Definitely not very Brettonian. 

Hmm, I'll need to order some more knights so I can "disperse" the red/blue ones I've done so far. If I get another 3 packs, that'll be enough for a total of 5 units. When do I get paid next?!

I've also found some old GW paint pots in the loft. Most sound solid but one or two still slosh when shaken - result! If I can get the dry ones open I'll try adding some water to try to get it usable again - does anyone know if this will work, or would I be wasting my time?

[jchaos79]

Good this is working!

Brets mount on your steads and prepare to fight

I'm afraid this trick is not going to resurrect your paint, because when vinylic paints polymerize it became a kind of plastic not soluble in water.

I think, good light, good brushes and moderate quality paints are essential to paint. (unfortunatly when I say good I mean expensive)

go on!

[andys]

Ah well, I'll throw the solid ones away 
Thanks for the advice.

I tend not to do "expensive". Yorkshireman you see, it's in my genes 
"Adequate" will do for me!

[Stormwind]

Yeah sorry the solid ones are a dead loss.  But if you put the lids on tight - I have had ones 15 years old still be perfectly useable, in better condition even than newer ones I got. =-P

If you long for the old style of pot from the 90s, Cote d'Arms were the original GW supplier:
http://www.coatdarms.com/online_shop/index.php?cPath=21

And if you want to save money you could use Vallejo / Army Painter paints with the dripper nozzles.  You could use a wet palette using a cleaned plastic takeaway tub, wet kitchen roll and greaseproof paper in it.  This way you just squeeze out the amount of paint you want into the palette and it won't dry out if you need to leave it.

[andys]

Whew, busy weekend. Apart from flocking the bases (no PVA glue  , must get some on my way home one evening), I've painted 4 units of Peasants and 2 units of Bowmen. I've previously painted a unit each of Knights, Bowmen and Squires plus the Hero on Pegasus and the Characters blister.

Must admit to not enjoying painting the Knights, which is a bit of a problem with a Brettonian army! I found doing lots of different colour schemes to make up a unit a pain. As I'm going to have 10 units of Knights, I'll try painting them in batches of the same colour scheme but different layouts, in the hope it speeds things up a bit. Then, when all are painted, mix the figures up to form the other 9 units. Fingers crossed!

I think I'll paint the remaining unit of Bowmen, 3 units of Squires and 4 Men-at-arms first and then see if I can inspire myself to tackle the Knights. I hate having an unpainted lead mountain!

For the non-knight units I'm going for a single unit each of Peasants, Bowmen, Men-at-arms and Squires, each with a red, blue, green or yellow theme, 16 units in total.

[jchaos79]

Painting every knight different with differents colours could be really nice, but I found particualry useful to paint the units with the same pattern of colours and different to other units to recognize them quickly during the game... you know when the combat starts sometimes is hard to know which stand belong to each unit.

I paint 8 units of goblins very similar... and now I regreat done that.

A possibility is paint the banner of the lances with the same colour from the unit and go for the knight and the horse bard as unique knight colour scheme.

Just a though...

[andydorman]

I'd definitely recommend vallejo paints - the quality is fantastic and they're definitely good value. Loads of discounts if you buy in bulk on eBay too...

[andys]

Painting every knight different with differents colours could be really nice, but I found particualry useful to paint the units with the same pattern of colours and different to other units to recognize them quickly during the game... you know when the combat starts sometimes is hard to know which stand belong to each unit.

I paint 8 units of goblins very similar... and now I regreat done that.

A possibility is paint the banner of the lances with the same colour from the unit and go for the knight and the horse bard as unique knight colour scheme.

Just a though...

10 units of knights is 120 figures. The Pendraken Knights don't have banners, so each unit will get one standard bearer. I'm not doing 120 separate banners    .

I've got Bricscad on my laptop. I've just knocked up some 10 x 10mm banners with a simple fleur de lys on. A coloured f-d-l on a white field with a white f-d-l on a coloured field option. I'll print them off tomorrow and see how they look - I was never very good at hand painting flags! If they work OK, I'll use them for the Men-at-arms and Squire units and do some more complicated ones for the Knights.

[jchaos79]

I was refering to the "handkerchief" or little banner hanging on the tip of the lance.

http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=4665.0

Printable banners are great!

[andys]

Even so, 120 of any kind of flag/banner is a lot to do! 

[andys]

Finished! Did the last units of Knights last night.

The army comprises:

1 General
4 Heroes (inc. 1 on a Pegasus)
1 Enchantress on Unicorn
1 Grail Knights
9 Knights
5 Squires
4 Men-at-arms
4 Bowmen
4 Peasants

All from Pendraken (except the General, 2 Heroes and the Enchantress, which are Games Workshop). Cost £114. The Games Workshop characters were about £15 of the total, glad GW have pulled the range, I'm forced to buy from other manufacturers which are happily much cheaper! Ouch, just realised I'll have painted all that lot in a bit less than a month! I'll need to get something to store them in now.

Plus about £100 for paint, brushes, glue, basing sand, craft knives and bases! Damn but the price of that stuff soon tots up! Although the paint and bases will now take me onto the Halfings I've bought (need more!).

If my camera is capable of taking photos of such small figures, I'll see if I can work out how to post some pictures in a day or two.

[Tzigane]

Great! I hope you can take some nice pictures of them!

I've also been thinking to get some Pendraken minis for a Bret army, maybe yours will sway me!