I've been working on a few larger units while simultaneously having the odd vignette sitting at the side of the table to work on if I'm waiting for anything to dry, that sort of thing.....
Here's the first, a Bishop blessing a Caballero Villanos (poor knight) who were quite often taken from the upper peasantry and were likelier still to come from a border region where there was often conflict, or the threat of, mainly in the form of raids. These border zones on the Spanish peninsular were not, as one might assume, necessarily borders between the religious principalities. They could just as easily be a border between two Christian 'nations' or two Muslim kingdoms.
From DaveD - lovely work there Darrell, very evocative - I will go with 12 points for em!
Marvelous stuff Darrell, love the bishop's robes. Might have to get these figures.
ReplyDeleteYou could keep this post as painting reference - if you don’t delete it by accident!
DeleteNaw, I'll just misspell the link so that I can't find it.
DeletePeter, they're lovely miniatures and well worth purchasing. I've actually had them for about ten years and simply never got around to painting them!
DeleteI have some of the crusader El CID range, and they are lovely.
DeleteThey are indeed. The paint just seems to land on them :)
DeleteGreat vignette Darrell :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Tamsin
DeleteThe work on the bishop's mini is outstanding
ReplyDeleteThanks Benito- appreciated :)
DeleteExcellent work.
ReplyDeleteCheers Adam
DeleteFantastic painting, very well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Greg
DeleteBeautifully done!
ReplyDeleteCheers Noel
DeleteThe work on those textiles is brilliant. Well done Darrell!
ReplyDeleteThankyou for the kind words Evan
DeleteGreat stuff Darrell.
ReplyDeleteCheers Paul :)
DeleteBeautiful work Darrell - simple yet evocative.
ReplyDeleteThank you Curt. I've only got another two dozen or so to do! The hard part is not really the painting, it's finding miniatures that 'talk' to one another :)
DeleteLovely vignette! Great pair of figures!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Cheers Iain
Delete5ese are great vignettes Darrell
ReplyDeleteThanks Phyllion- they will hopefully add character to the battlefield.
DeleteA lovely vignette Darrell that works perfectly for the period.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Thanks Christopher- yep, lots of praying (they won't get killed!) :>)
DeleteThe colours really pop out, the base complements them very well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sander, the battle I'm going to be depicting took place in a fairly arid place so I didn't have much of a choice with the basing but lighter bases do tend to make colours, especially bright ones, pop.
DeleteReally nice work on the subtle shading and clear delineation between colours.
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