Thursday, 26 April 2012

First Few El Cid Spanish - Work in Progress

I've been working away at the Christian Spanish for the El Cid Campaign Day that Tom and I are running in October.

I've decided that the best way to get these done is to start off with a four-point Saga war-band and add figures from there.

The figures are all from the Perry Miniatures - First Crusade range. They are lovely figures, but I'm rather concerned that the bridles do not have a strap over the end of the horses nose. I've already started adding some green-stuff straps to the next lot that I am currently preparing.

So far I have an Infante and two sets of four Caballeros that just need some finishing off and the bases doing.

Infante

Infante

8 Caballeros
Some close-ups of the Caballeros:









Next up on the painting table, being base-coated are eight Peons.



As you can probably guess I'm trying to tie the force together with red and yellow shield designs.




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8 comments:

  1. Hendrid27 April 2012 at 01:04

    Lots of nice looking work there. Like the shield work.

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  2. Stephen27 April 2012 at 06:06

    Very nice Scrivs

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  3. Neil Scott27 April 2012 at 11:16

    looking good

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  4. Neil Scott27 April 2012 at 17:25

    Excellent painting, really capture that Spanish look

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  5. Paul´s Bods27 April 2012 at 20:55

    Lovely!!! I really like The shield pattern on the second from top cabellero..and good idea using overall yellow and red shield patterns...great stuff..it´s making me rethink using my HaT El Cid figs for generic crusaders and instead going for a proper El Cids army
    Cheers
    Paul

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  6. Paul Scrivens-Smith28 April 2012 at 18:15

    Thanks for all the comments.

    I've done a little more work on the Caballeros and the first eight Peons are done too. I'm just awaiting the order of bases for them from Warbases.

    Paul, I took a look at your HaT El Cid just the other day, very nice.

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  7. GuitarheroAndy1 May 2012 at 19:39

    Very nice, Paul! That colour scheme looks oddly familiar.. ;-)

    Looking forward to seeing the rest of it come together.

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  8. Paul Scrivens-Smith7 May 2012 at 16:21

    Cheers Andy, they are Spanish, what else could I do - actually I think my Mercenary spears may be Catalonians - then I can to them in Barcelona shirts :-)

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