Thursday, January 16, 2020

Breton Domnonée Dark Age cavalry II

Breton cavalry II


A unit of medium Breton cavalry for my Kingdom of Domnonée project, another project from the 2019 pile that was partially completed and required a few steps to complete them. I am almost at a end for this army one more cavalry unit, a command and thirty figures. This will give me quite a large army for the 5th through to the 8th century and by swapping out some infantry and cavalry will stretch until the 9th century.

The figures in this unit are footsore with one converted gripping beast celt to make up the unit. Quite happy with the plaid on these.



"walk the battlefield in the morning, wargame in the afternoon"™


Salut
Matt

24 comments:

Neil Scott said...

Very nice

Ray Rousell said...

Top brushwork Matt.

Bluewillow said...

Cheers Ray, quite happy with the plaid on these chaps

Salut
Matt

Norm said...

Very nicely done.

Bluewillow said...

Cheers Neil, the army is coming along nicely

Bluewillow said...

Cheers thank you Norm, I am quite happy with my plaid result on these chaps

Salut
Matt

Michael Awdry said...

They're a cracking troop, wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of that charge.

DeanM said...

Fabulous and impressive brushwork! Excellent work on the plaid cloaks.

Cyrus said...

Excellent cavalry Matt!

Bluewillow said...

Yes wild hairy buggers I think. The Bretons inherited the feigned flight from the Alan's and Sarmations invaders in the early 5th century, they successfully defended their border from the Franks, in several campaigns and battles depleting the enemy so much that they become ineffective. They famously used it to break the Saxons at Hastings were still using the tactic in the 13th century Plantagenet wars.

Salut
Matt

Bluewillow said...

Thanks Dean, I have spent some time on these over the last two weeks, another unit is very close, they are all in cloaks though!

Salut
Matt

Bluewillow said...

Cheers Mick, thankyou for your encouragement

Salut
Matt

Michal DwarfCrypt said...

Fantastic work!

Bluewillow said...

Thanks Michal, the footsore figures are superb

Cheers
Matt

Jonathan Freitag said...

You are turning out some fine work, Matt! You have settled into your new painting area well.

Hendrid said...

Nice!

Bluewillow said...

Yes, I like winter for painting, we do not have as many guests and normally do, but also do not do any major renovation works. Although I have had a good start on the “Salon de Guerre” about 1/4 completed the sanding and preparation.

Salut
Matt

Bluewillow said...

Cheers Hendrid, thanks for the encouragement.

Salut
Matt

L'Empereur said...

Beautiful figures and picture! 😎

Bluewillow said...

Thank you very much

Salut
Matt

A Miniatures Hobby Room said...

With all of your projects and your business I can't even imagine having the time to do such fine brushwork on minis. You are setting the bar pretty high.

Bluewillow said...

I am trying to set the standard high so it inspires people to visit us at the business.

This time of year I am able to paint everyday for 6 to 10 hours so I can achieve quite a bit, late spring through to Autumn is our customer high season. So painting slows then considerably.

Cheers
Matt

Phil said...

Absolutly superb!!

Bluewillow said...

Thank you for your encouragement

Cheers
Matt