Back to the knights - more exactly, the 1996 plastic knights of the realm. They hold up pretty well as models! They're got a nice balance of detail and simplicity, and the large open spaces of the caparisons give a lot of opportunity for designs.
Incidentally, I often find myself tempted to buy a ton of new models along a theme. A couple of months ago I was slightly hypnotised by a GW boxed set of Adeptus Mechanicus robots: last week I was looking thoughtfully at a box of medieval chaps for The Barons War, which is pretty much the kind of thing that the older Bretonnian models are based on. If I bought all these things I'd be spending a hundred pounds a week and my house would be even more rammed with unfinished (and probably unstarted) models than before. It's bad enough as it is.
Anyway, back to the miniatures. The first two of these guys were based on colour schemes in the 1996 Bretonnian army book, the mighty Stillman Codex. I tried to match the shields to their crests (GW didn't do this, but it makes sense to me). However, the green-and-white knight didn't have a dragon's head shield, so I ended up improvising by painting a dragon onto a blank shield. It's alright, but won't be winning me any awards. Still, the advantage of painting miniatures inspired by the medieval times is that if you draw as well as a medieval person it doesn't look too bad, comparatively.
The third guy was just painted by me in a moment of insanity. Painting checks at this scale is actually harder than doing them on tiny models like harlequins and House Escher gangers: when the model is small, it's harder to notice the mistakes. Anyhow, here he is:
It always strikes me as odd how a knight is basically a brutal hardcase in a suit of plate armour, with the fanciest and loudest decorations possible. Here are all three, ready to smite some evil.
Now I'm going to rest my eyes for a bit and wonder about painting more orks. Or maybe a Bretonnian character? Hmm.
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