He faced Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile twice in open battle winning spectacular victories on both occasions at the Battle of Sagrajas 1086 and the Battle of Consuegra 1097 respectively.
This piece is the command base that will be attached to the Yusef ibn Tashfin's Black Guard. His personal guard and chosen mostly from Slav and Sudanese slaves. (Unfortunately I cannot post any pics of the Black Guard as they were finished before the painting challenge began- you can see pics of them on my Just Add Water wargames blog)
From Paul
The painting is superb and you get bonus points for the banners and shield work. Thats 3 figures and 5 bonus points for 20 points
Ooh, these are fabulous, Darrell. Beautiful brushwork and I love the shield and flag. Wonderful stuff. What is your paint recipe for your North African flesh? It looks great.
ReplyDeleteFor the Sudanese soldiers I'm using the Foundry Dark African Flesh Triad with a couple of final highlights with Vallejo Model Colour Light Sand added progressively. For the more 'Arabic' troops in the army I use a much lighter recipe such as the one used on the Andalusian Noble Cavalry in an earlier post.
DeleteThat's a lovely command base Darrell )
ReplyDeleteThanks Tamsin :)
DeleteGreat looking piece! Love the shield especially. Good work on the black, too!
ReplyDeleteWindsor and Newton's Pains Grey is the key to the blacks. I did try the Andrea Black Paint Set but it was too flat in effect.
DeleteOh wow, this Reconquista stuff has just been amazing.
ReplyDeleteIt is for the Islamic forces, the Christians are much less colourful sadly; though I might change that as long as it's within certain historical parameters :)
DeleteThese are splendid, lovely work!
ReplyDeleteThanks Evan
DeleteGreat looking command stand, lovely clean painting style!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Cheers Iain
DeleteOne of the best things I’ve seen the challenge,, this command stand just plain rocks so much it could qualify at Cooks crevasse!
ReplyDeleteI still haven't had a look at the more 'special' challenge events. It's my fist year and I'm still trying to navigate putting up a post! This one took me three attempts! LOL
DeleteGreat work Daryl, hope to see more of the collection over the coming months.
ReplyDeleteCheers Paul, I'm still working oat a rate of knots! :)
DeleteVery impressive work!
ReplyDeleteFantastic. Love the banners.
ReplyDeleteThe 'Banner' is actually three pennants from LBMS glued together as I needed a black banner to go with the ones featured in the Black Guard unit
DeleteThat is a work of art. Breathtaking.
ReplyDeleteI'll take that compliment- many thanks :)
DeleteThanks for the fine compliment Emjenic
ReplyDeleteBeautifully painted Darrel!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray :)
DeleteGreat work, got a load of the Warlord Games Black Guard along with some Gripping Beast command figures on the 'to do' list.
ReplyDeleteI have a unit of Black Guard already painted up for this project but it was started before the AHPC started so I haven't posted any pics. It's half Artizan and half Saxon Miniatures (now sold by Warlord Games).
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