That is the final six mounted knights done. So all twenty four are finished. Well when I say finished I will need to do add some white onto the horses round the legs and faces (still the penultimate half dozen to do too. I will need some form of banner for both sets too.

As you can see, these are all with horse armour. So a lot of metal paint for these. The more I have looked at these then the more I think the gilded helmets are going to he painted silver/gun metal.

Not sure where I am going next…

You will be amazed to hear that the printer hasn’t been on for months… in fact this is the last thing I did…

I reckon the last time I powered it up was 9th/10th July.

Well today I have managed to get the penultimate half dozen finished.

I am actually quite pleased that I don’t actually have six left. In fact I have five… if you remember I did an extra miniature when I did the mounted bowmen…

So here we have the remaining five… ready to go  – so to speak…

I forgot to take my steroids today so am feeling a little wobbly right now. If I feel a bit less ropey later on then I will try and crack on with them.

I spent some time this evening working on another half dozen knights.

I did consider getting them completely finished, but got to the point of instant avoidance. This was rather foolish as pretty much it was down to the broze stirrups and bits at the mouth.

But they should be finished in about 20 minutes. Some white on the legs and faces of the horses will add to the effect.

On the downside I didn’t get them finished, on the upside I got them nearly finished 😉.

So this evening in a bid to try and reduce my stress levels I decided to have a bash at the French knights.

Stress levels didn’t come down much but I did get some miniatures a bit further forward. I also finished my English standard and and got it stuck onto the banner pole.  After the photo was taken I got the paper closer into the pole while the glue was still wet.

Hoping I will get more done tomorrow.

Getting there. Yes I managed a bit more painting this evening. I did have a parent meeting until 9.00 but felt the need to paint…

They are definitely closer to finished now. Another evening and they will be done.

I was going to do Jean with reddish hair. Not sure where that came from as I cannot now find any mention of it. As I had the black out I just went with it.

I am not too impressed by the metal miniatures compared with the plastic ones. I mean if you look at her face then it is closer to Quasimodo than the Maid of Orleans. But hey, I bought them so that is on me!

Regarding miniatures I have some very exciting news. My son is super happy… I mean jumping around happy. I will share more tomorrow. This evening I am just to tired, he is asleep and to show you I would probably wake him up.

This evening I got my backside into gear and did a bit more on the French Commanders.

Still a fair old bit to go, but they are getting there. I just have to remember the plastic ones need finishing too.

So Jean, La Hire and the Bastard of Orleans had some paint splashed on.

So La Hire and the Bastard have their surcoats visible. La Hire is black with white grapes and his comrade is the blue with yellow fleur des lilles with a white bar…. see I did find out 🙂.

The metal was a bit bumpy so I went  for pretty much covering the lot and I will go over the raised details with white when the base colours are dry.