This week I completed a medium unit of Armoured Mercenary Reiters from the Swedish upgrade set. That's 18 tiny horsemen.
Initially, I wanted to leave the helmets blackened as I imagine that would have been common in the armies of the day. But my middle-aged vision had too hard a time to make out the difference of these armoured guys compared to the hat wearing regular reiters across a table, so I drybrushed som Army Painter Plate Mail Metal unto the helmets. I still left the chest plates rather dark though.
I once again used different colours on the sleeves to indicate the mercenary character of the unit. Also, I tend to stay away from actual black and white with these and use Vallejo Model Colour German Grey and Deck Tan respectively instead.
We're on to the home stretch as regards to cavalry for this project now. All that's left are the national units, made up of actual Swedes (and Finns). But I think I'll take a little break from pure cavalry units next week to add in some stuff I need for a game at the end of the month. That's right, if everything goes to plan I should have a completed playable task force before February. But don't worry about me dropping out, I still want to paint up some options, likely going over my target if I can keep this level of progress up. And then there's also the expansion on the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 coming out soon demanding that I paint up at least a few Cossacks to add to my first By Fire and Sword army.
The points summary is easy this time:
18 x 4 = 72 points for 18 15mm mounted miniatures.
Thanks for looking!
Time indeed goes fast and you have been steadily working on your forces indeed. The ever growing results of your hard labour are incredible, these too are very well painted and very much in key with your other forces. Top points for consistency in quality of painting and overall look! Can't wait to see more of your work Kristoffer
