From PeterB. The Original wargame. [112 points]

For the penultimate week I have been painting something different again (I really am the ultimate hobby butterfly.) This week's models are for the original wargame, (No, not HG Wells) Chess.

My Father in Law hand cast these himself from moulds. Having cast a set for himself he presented me with these a while ago for my own amusement. They stand around 45mm tall apart from the Rooks who are a little shorter. 

This set are Crusaders and eventually when the other set is cast they will be Saracens. (All donations of old pewter mugs and model offcuts graciously received.) I wanted to paint them in a non realistic paint scheme, giving them a core colour of white, (making them clearly obvious one side of a chess set.) then only keeping to a limited pallete of browns and silver for the chainmail. The other side will start off black with its own limited pallette of darker colours.

The bases have been painted I promise, the white is a conscious choice.

They are a great set of stylised sculpts. I particularly like the Rooks although they take up a lot of metal to cast them.

The whole lot are coated in a generous layer of Coat D'arms Super Shader which not only improves the look, but also protects the models somewhat from losing their paint to overhandling.

Scores on the doors then.

16 x 40mm models at 7 points each. 112 points.

From Millsy:

These are really rather lovely Peter! It's easy to forget amongst all the wonderful variety and endless new releases that there's a beginning to all of this "stuff" that we play with. I remember hand casting my own 40mm semi-rounds when I was starting out and the weight quickly added up. I can only imagine what a full set of these will weigh when all 32 pieces are complete.

I like the fact you steered away from the obvious choice of include red to make these Templars. I do hope there will be some Black Guard in the Saracens when they are done too though!

A great entry mate. Off the beaten path and really well executed.