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For the Lady! by John Cadice

Greetings White Dwarf readers, this is your painting fanatic John with a whole new ball of spikey metal death and paint fumes to share. In the last months, I was approached by people who ACTUALLY READ the five generals article and ACTUALLY SAID they like to see that kind of stuffin’ their own white dwarf...(Important to remember, although I speak English, I actually am not English) so we want to make more exciting content for you, the valued German speaking customer, and maybe give you a nugget of inspiration by which you will start (and hopefully) finish your next army. Soooooooo, that brings us to the task at hand. I have since tucked away my fake pointy ears and stopped listening to songs about flowers and how we should all just "get along", to get geared up for the heavy metal, hoof pounding, lance skewering fun that is the new bretonnian army....I don’t need to sell this to anyone, so I'll just say...it is cool, it is effective, and a man can actually build a movement tray for the new lance formation... So as to be much the antithesis of my fellow duke Juergen, I chose to put colors on my models in true bretonnian fashion...(private note, I was never really keen on fashion involving silk, gems, new-wave music and glowing-god-avatars for friends).

These lovely fellows are the good Barons watchmen, sturdy, tall, and can speak without drooling on themselves.  I have painted them in a style I like to call "Quick".  This style usually involves assembling the whole regiment, priming them in one go (Black of-course) and drybrushing them from head to toe in a healthy vibrant mix of mud, horse droppings and other such filth. Scorched brown and graveyard earth are good guides for this as they look like dirtied fabric and leather.  Highlighting becomes a luxury as I then attack everything metal with a mix of black and boltgun metal, a subsequent drybrush with boltgun or chainmail does the trick and you already have half the model painted.

Skin was painted first with new dark flesh tone and highlighted in three stages with dwarf flesh and then a mix of dwarf flesh and elf flesh. The most striking thing about the new men-at-arms is that most of their body hides behind a large shield.  This usually bears the heraldry of the duke that they serve, my colors are golden yellow with the dragon rampant design.  To make this short...use the bloody decals...saves time and sanity....bye the way, complete regiment...4 hours...that’s a long night with a movie playing and a couple liters of cola...you can do it!

The new models for horse and knight are to die for, they are great, noble and heavy duty miniatures (I am happy to report no broken tails...yet) The short news on knights is this, plan to take an hour on each one, plan your colors before painting each one, pick a nice decal to put on him before you start. A little trick with the armor, in two colors I can do a quick and nice looking armor effect with a mixing pot (I suggest you make one with this color... you’ll use it over and over).  In your clean new mixing pot, pour in a healthy amount of mithril silver or chainmail and then spice it up with a little bit of blue ink, drop of black ink, and a little storm blue....the color should look blue/silver...but more

on the silver side.  Save this in a special place.  Use the blacklining technique from the painting guide to paint the armor of your knights leaving the black in the eyes/grill and between armor plates. Then all you need to do is use your new color...(I call it sweet silver) add a little mithril and highlight up your armor to silver in whatever way you see fit. Use the decals. Horses are/can be easy.  So I’ll just tell you what I did.  Drybrush scorched brown over the entire model, this does two things, paints the horse, and all the tack (leather stuff on the horse)  leaving you free to decorate the rest of the horse with all the nice colors and decals you will use......decals.......use decals.....ahem!

Now for my duke, in the army book you will see the same duke on a regular horse...well have none of that, a good general rides in style...this one on a royal pegasus...woo hooo...the sports car of the skies.  Your general is worth taking a little time on...but I still used decals.  The rider/Pegasus doesn’t quite fit, so I had to cut down the back of the saddle to get him on. This is just the warm up, we’re paintin’ here...and rollin’ along quick, hope to see some of you as we will be visiting some stores in the month of February looking for a fight...ask your local store if they are participating. For the Lady! John

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