As well as trying to get one of my Footsore knights done for my Wednesday post I also started work on another one with the aim of playing around a bit with heraldry which is a bit more challenging. I decided to go with the black and white shown on the right of the second row in the image below.
Now the best I can gather is the geezer in question is a French knight but with all the will in the world I cannot decipher the name hence the title of today’s post. If anyone has an idea please let me know and I’ll amend the title. Even if you don’t know but come up with a creative or amusing name I might go with that instead!
As things turned out it wasn’t that tricky to paint after all which was good for moral but leaves me feeling I need to do something more the next time around.
In the meanwhile here are the images of the mysterious French night.
TIM
The Imperfect Modeller 
Another great knight painted, I’ve been enjoying this series of Footsore knights a lot!
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Glad to hear that Dave as I’ll be doing these figures for quite a while yet! 🙂
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Excellent job mate – I reckon that might be Sir Pepe le Pew
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You might well be right on the name Alex, I’ll check it out on Google. 😉
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Very nice! 🙂 Quite a striking scheme!
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Cheers John. Black and white knights were pretty cool I reckon. 🙂
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I think that’s Sir Noname Le Prique 😂
Great job mate. I love the spattering of blood, of course hehe
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Haha, yeah that could well be his name! Thought you’d like the blood. 🙂
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Another Excellent Knight TIM, you must have a good looking unit by now
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Cheers Dave. Yes a few figures now but a very long way to go. Might have to do a group shot soon. 🙂
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I have no idea if this helps, but I posted the image of the black and white shield to the heraldry sub on Reddit and a couple of people there think the name is Riboulé.
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Cheers Matt, very decent of you. Haven’t a clue myself but very happy to go with that. 🙂
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Very nice work on the shield and it is cool to see a knight favoring darker colors after some of the previous ones you’ve painted. Maybe this bloke is more of the sneaking around type! 🙂
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Thank you. Where possible I’m trying mix things up a bit for visual as well as painting interest. 🙂
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Tres Bon. The knight looks fantastic.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thank you Pete. 🙂
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Another great looking Frenchman!
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Cheers mate.
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Lovely work as always shame he’s French if there are two things I really hate it’s racism and the bloody French!!!
Cheers Roger.
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Haha, cheers Roger. 🙂
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Once again – looking good. I like the fact that he’s a bit of an unknown quantity, he’s a foreigner, his name and heraldry unknown, and he’s clearly fallen on hard times (he owns no horse). It implies that there is a story here waiting to be told, and even if you never have the “real” answer that mystery in itself adds something to the character of the army.
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Cheers mate. I hadn’t thought about it along those lines but the more I do the more I like the air of mystery. 🙂
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This model looks great, great work on shield 🙂 !
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Thank you. 🙂
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Well done! Tuened out aces. Heraldry has held me back from painting a horde of Bretonnian knights… I’m going to save the intro pic, it will be useful when I finally dig in.
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Thank you. I’m really enjoying the heraldry and would encourage anyone to have a crack at it. 🙂
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Well painted Dave but he isn’t my favorite, I knew as soon as I saw him IRO would like the blood!!!
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Nor mine Pat but he adds a little variety. He’ll definitely be at the rear of any group shots.
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Good thinking mate, a show wouldn’t be to real if all the folk were as handsome as you and I!!!
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😂😂
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Soldier, your weapon needs cleaning! Seriously, great job and the heraldry will keep you busy with freehand forever. Which is good for us btw, just love it. And Roger, remember I’m 3/16 French Canadian, so…
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Thanks Mark. As projects go this one will keep me busy all summer and beyond I think. 🙂
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He looks great, and I kinda guessed which shield option you would chose when I saw the first image and before i got to the text. The only way I have ever tried to do the more complex designs is to purchase transfers, so I am looking forward to seeing how you tackle the more complex designs seeing your skill with a brush far eclipses mine.
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Nothing wrong with transfers Anthony. Personally I’m just trying to push myself on paintng but it’s far more hit and miss than the end results show. I’d love to say everything goes smoothly from the start but alas it doesn’t. A lot more practice needed yet.
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