A Bretonian WTF!!???!!

 Yea you are probably like PPC, that's not a Viking or a Roman or Chaos...what the heck are you doing.  Well I once had a dream....well I have lots of dreams and nighmares...so let's not go there.

 At one time, I wanted to build a Bretonian army.  I accumulated a bunch of pieces for the models, then the newer models came, then the demise of Warhammer came about....then I decided to dump all that I accumulated on Ebay.  Or at least I thought I had dumped everything.

 I found this guy in the bitz box, so I threw him together and painted him up.

 I might keep him around for the occasional RPG/Frostgrave game.

 I think he turned out alright.

As always....well, no.  There will not ever be anymore Bretonnians from me.

Old Stuff Wednesday: Bretonian in a Duel

Another old one, this was a pair of OOP Warhammer Fantasy models.  The Bretonian knight is/was one of GW's cooler looking models.  

The skeleton is actually one of their OOP plastic skeletons that I converted special for the duel.  Base was absolutely horrible.....

Modeling Bretonnians: Part 6 - More of the Foot Knights

 I finished up some more of the foot knights.  This one armed with a falchion.

 This one with a Morningstar.

And this one with a bird???

Nearing end of the Bretonnians.

Modeling Bretonnians Part 5: The Foot Knights

Originally when I had first started this project, I had planned to use knights on foot in place of the Grail Pilgrims, a sort of "counts as" for the army since I really did not like the pilgrims.  I will probably still do that, but it will be much better looking knight models from the Fireforge ranges.

The knight above is the simplest conversion using the peasant champion's body and mace, with a mounted knight's shield.

 Below is another of the character bodies from the peasant box set. Another simple conversion, this one uses a warhammer from the Empire wolf looking knights.

 When you do this type of conversion you may need to modify and add the head dress draping.

 Below is another of the knights that would have been used in the more rear ranks.  The helm on this one is one of the hanging bits with the chain simply removed.

A little bit of mail sculpted around the neck.  Another thing that you may need to do when doing these conversions is to add some GS putty under the helm around the neck areas if you have some gaps.

 Below a view from behind of the mail.  The shield is a an extra from Fireforge.

 And below, another of the easier conversions using the champion body.  This helm has the decoration removed from it and the shield is cut down peasant shield.

That's it for now from the aborted project.  And again these will be going up for auction.  I'll post links to those auctions in near future.

Modeling Bretonnian Knights Part 4

 One of the things that I did a long time back with the Bretonnian models was also to convert the horses that the knights rode.  One head in particular is  fairly simple to convert.  I think this gives a really interesting look to their mounts.

 Next up is another of the knights.  Straight up easy conversion on this one.

Simply just added a boar with a knife in it to match the helm decoration to the horse.

As stated previously, all of Bretonnian stuff will eventually end up being auctioned off on Ebay, as this is an aborted project.  Fireforge stuff will be done in place of this for my future knight projects.

Modeling Bretonnian Knights: Part 3

Back with more knights.  The above and below shot shows another of the knights that I converted to have a couched lance.

The next one shows a bit harder conversion, removing those ugly embossed shields from the horse's caparison.

Like a previous knight I again went back and removed the lance and added a big sword.  The sword is from a Reaper Miniatures weapons pack.

This knight I gave a cape.  I once again used a cape from Fire Forge's Teutonic knights kit again.

Below are some shots of one of the horses.  I first shaved off the embossed shields with a sharp Xacto, while the horse body was in halves. 

I then went back in with Brown Stuff and Green Stuff to smooth out any areas that had scarred up from the removal and in some cases I added some additional folds.

Bretonnian Knights: Modeling Part 2

One thing I always like to do are minor subtle conversions when building armies.  This is what gives you flavor and variety that others are missing.  This knight is one of those.  I simply cut off the lance and put his sword in his hand.   After all once that initial charge is over the lance is broken and done anyways.  The plan was to put broken lances on the bases and movement trays like they were just dropped.  The sword is from a Reaper Miniatures sword pack blister.

Also note the helm has the boar on it.  That boar use to have a sword in it.  But I wanted variety so simply removing that sword created just that.

I was also playing with the positions of the horse heads to give a bit more variety.  It looks easier than it is to get that right and smoothed out and then to fix the reigns.  And is very subtle.

Another thing that GW did not do for the Bret knights was couch the lance.  I can understand why as far as ranking them goes, but really they should have that arm on the sprue.

 I decided to make that.  Its an easy conversion using the Empire knights couched lance arm converting it with Bret parts.

Below is another variation on the couched lance.  Also the helm on this one is something they should have also given as an option.  This is one of those that has the little tie and chain to it for hanging on the miniature, simply clipped off.

 As you can see I also removed a lot of the icons from the horse and smoothed that out.  

The cape again is something that GW should have as an option.  This cape is a left over from my FireForge miniatures.

That's it for now, I'm off to the race track....

Bretonnian Knights: Modeling Part 1

 As I mentioned in a recent post, I'm cleaning out some partially finished projects, most of which will just be some modeling.  This is part one of the never finished Bretonian project that I started probably 4 years ago.  These models have become expendable since the release of FireForge's models.  Those are much more to my liking.  These GW models are just obnoxious in comparison.

The knight pictured above and below was a start of a number of conversions that I was doing.  I really wanted to get rid of a some of the items that GW put all over the models, especially the horses.  So on a few I had started removing the obnoxious embossed shield crap that GW put on them, and smooth out the horse's caparison.

I also took to removing some things from the head dress on the helms.  I don't mind that aspect of the knight, but I had intended to build the army, never repeating a single one.  Sounds difficult....but there were some subtle things that could be done to change things up. 

I will not be painting these.  All of these knights will be getting dumped on ebay soon.