Three Knights

 When I started out making models, I found tiding the miniatures tedious and unnecessary, which is why my early models are covered in mold lines and jagged bits of plastic where I twisted them off the sprue like the exciteable child I was. These days, I actually quite like tidying and repairing old models: it's easier than painting them, and it feels productive. Unfortunately, I end up with loads of stripped, repaired miniatures to go into the boxes of "things to be painted".

I have built up a pretty massive queue of models that I need to do. Some of this is down to repainting old miniatures, and some of it is the result of buying "new" ones. Looking for bargains on ebay is a hobby in itself. This means that I've got a lot of stuff half-painted on my desk, some of which isn't actually all that appealing. I'm still not sure, for instance, why I've got so many plastic skaven stormvermin, or when I was into them.

So I'm having a bit of a go at reducing the pile of stuff, while continuing with the ongoing project. Anyhow, here are two more Bretonnian knights.

These guys are from 5th edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle, from about 1996. They came out with the first army book, and are nice plastic models. They're clearly more stylised than the 1991 versions, which could largely pass for historical knights, but they lack the pointless extra over-detailing of the most recent plastics. I've used colour schemes strongly based on those in the army book.

Now we've got a slightly stranger model, who's been knocking around half-finished for ages. He's a conversion of a Privateer Press Retribution of Scyrah (that's elves, basically) model. I removed the standard he was carrying and replaced it with a trimmed-down plastic sword. I then painted him red. He's quite a menacing-looking chap - perhaps he's a vampire in weird armour, or one of Inquisitor Alice's retinue.

And that's it for now. Next time, either more orks or some trolls. Or both.