As those that regularly follow this blog will know in “Memory Monday No: 18” and “Memory Monday No: 19” I recently re-posted details of two 28mm 1st Corps mounted knights I had done a few years ago. Seeing these posts again made me want to revisit the genre so I did a little online searching and decided to buy some figures from Footsore Miniatures. The figures I settled on were from the Barons’ War range.
I have bought Footsore Miniatures figures before and found them to be excellent so it came as no surprise to find that these were too. After zero clean up I soon had them primed and ready for painting. Unusually for me I did no background work on these figures in terms of colour schemes, I just picked up a brush and started to get on with it. Two things were very clear though. Only the tunic and the shield, both of which were plain and with no embossing, offered an oportunity for any variation. I therefore decided to paint the tunics using two colours instead of one and to do them in quadrants. As for the shields I figured I would hand paint designs as I went along.
What you have here are the first five figures I have done. A few more will follow maybe next week. Some single shots along with a group shot appear below. My favourite thing was doing the Templar and Hospitaller scheme and free hand painting the crosses on the tunic. For now I will do all the figures I have in a random fashion but I think I will revisit them again and maybe do a little diorama of just Templar or Hospitaller knights.
TIM
The Imperfect Modeller 
Great painting on this group of knights, and as you say these are really nice sculpts.
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Cheers Dave. They will have some new ones coming out soon I believe which are equally good.
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These look great glad you chose to go back to paint some knights, I really like the chap holding his helmet.
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Thank you I enjoyed doing them and the chap holding his helmet is a great sculpt.
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Uh oh! I saw this Kickstarter and with the names behind it, I knew it would be good!
You’ve done a great job on these!
Interesting period and superb minis- I keep saying to myself, “resist!”
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Thanks you but I think you need to change your mantra from “resist” to “yield” as these are great figures. The next kick starter batch look very good too.
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Are they Paul Hicks minis? He is a superb sculptor! I’ve got a load of his figures already!
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Yes they are and as you say his work is superb.
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An impressive effort Dave. These would look fantastic in a dio or on the tabletop. The freehand Maltese cross came out exceptionally well, especially considering that you painted it on an uneven surface.
As this is #1, I am still hopeful that you have some in white satin in the future!
Great post!
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Thanks Mark, a couple of little dioramas are planned you might be interested to know! 😊
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Yes!
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All very nice! 🙂 And nice to see earlier period knights in predominantly mail as well!
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Cheers John.
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Knights are always cool and so it is awesome to see this latest group you’ve painted up. I’m even more excited to see what kind of diorama you’ve got cooked up. Should be awesome, if these are any indication!
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Thank you. The plan for the dioramas such as there is one isn’t anything that fancy I’m afraid, more a simple vignette of a few figures but hopefully they will be OK.
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Nothing wrong with that! I think of combat in this era as being up close and personal so a simple scene works well.
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Those are really great. A fine quintet.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete.
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GREAT! I’ve been looking forward to these mate and you’ve done a fantastic job with them. Makes me kind of itchy to paint a few more of my Medieval minis.
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It’s a great period for sure and it’s nice doing something a little different for now. I have more coming up so that itch of yours might get bigger!
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Any bigger and I’ll need some sort of cream to clean it up.
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🤣🤣
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Those are great (as ever!). The nice thing with knights is being able to give each one his own heraldry, you end up with a really interesting looking group. The final one (holding his helmet) has loads of personality to him, I don’t know what’s happened to him but he’s not looking happy about it!
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He is a rather nice sculpt in my opinion but he has the look of sadness and defeat, certainly not a victory pose that’s for sure.
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Oooh, lovely job mate, I really like these – that purple/yellow combo is particularly tasty!
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Thanks Alex.
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Lovely painting on some very nice simple sculpts. We’ll have you painting armies eventually!
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Haha, maybe one day!
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A battle weary group if I ever saw one, they look amazing, would like to see a diorama with the Templar’s just breaking into an underground vault with the ark of the covenant on the other side, over to you ..
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Thank you and food for thought. 😊
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oooooh lovely work. I have to echo you on your favourites there – the hospitalier and templar!
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I do like knights and the variety of colour but there is something iconic about Templars and Hospitallers.
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Agreed – I’ve got some assembled ones in my queue, waiting for a shot at the Tray – your models are much nicer, though! 🙂
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Really well done Dave, looking forward to the “only simple ” show ! Mate you never do just simple stuff it’s always great!!
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Cheers Pat, kind of you to say so. Hope you like the others in due course. 😊
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