There was
only one choice in the end: I fear painting white more than I fear
coming up with individual heraldry schemes and so the project for my
Tale Of 1 Gamer is Bretonnia. Ah, fair Bretonnia, my first army, the
army that got me into this glorious game, the army that I panic
bought so many models for when they briefly came back into production
during The End Times (a prescient decision, as it turned out).
Models that
included, as it happens, a couple of Battalions so it feels like time
to crack one open.
So, what do
we have? There's a lance of eight knights who will be built as
Knights of the Realm, a compulsory choice in the 6th
edition book (the group is currently debating how much of the
Warhammer Armies Project book to adopt); twenty Men-At-Arms; sixteen
Peasant Archers with four stands of defensive stakes; and, a single
Pegasus Knight who I will build as a unit champion to use as a
temporary hero until I have a proper General and the rest of a
Pegasus Knight unit completed waaaay in the future.
That's
forty-nine models including the stands of defensive stakes. That's a
lot but most of them are peasants who I can paint pretty simply using
GW's excellent selection of browns which makes it all a lot less
onerous. The knights I want to spend more time on and will be
painting one or two at a time whilst doing the peasants in batches.
What's more, I'm going to plan the heraldry out beforehand so I know
exactly what I'm doing.
And I'll
build the Men-At-Arms first because for such simple models they are
an absolute nightmare to build. The shields do not fit at all!
They're getting done right away so they don't become discouraging.
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