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| Some 28mm Hospitaller knights - figures from Footsore, sculpted by Paul Hicks. |
It can be so easy to stop doing something and...then not get back to it! At least with posting on the blog! The 15th edition of Curt's Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge has wrapped up, but I am well behind on my posts, so I hope to rip through several of them and get caught up in short order. Up first is my ninth submission, some members of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem - the Hospitaller Knights. These are 28mm metal castings from Footsore Miniatures, received from a Kickstarter I backed a few years ago. The figures were sculpted by the amazing Paul Hicks, and the flags are from Little Big Man Studios (now available through Victrix).
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| Banner man and fellow warrior - I particularly enjoy the Knights who have some mix of cloth in their headgear...really sets the "period" for me. |
The Crusades are a period that has fascinated me for years. I love reading about this era of history, and as you might expect this interest has naturally merged with my hobby mania such that I am keen to run games set during the period. So you would think I probably have a well-organized collection for the setting, right? LOL.
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| "Prepare to believe!" |
Translation of my intense interest in the Crusades into hobby output has often floundered on the kinds of mental rocks that I feel would be familiar to many wargamers. Mostly I have waffled between hoping to play skirmish games like "Saga" and then suddenly wanting to do larger games like "Hail Caesar", and then struggling with how to base the figures...inducing paralysis via analysis and causing me to go paint some more 30k stuff instead :) Over the years I have managed to paint what amounts to a pair of large war bands that would work for "Saga" - not nothing, but hardly great progress.
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| More awesome poses from Paul Hicks...man I love his stuff... |
These Footsore figures were meant to jolt me out of this stasis, but instead have been a prime example of this unfortunate tendency to revert to stasis...at first I was using the round bases to paint them - you can see some of the initial figures back in Challenge XIII. Since that time, I have come to my senses and re-based those original figures on more traditional square bases to allow for their deployment in a game like "Warhammer Ancient Battles" or "Hail Caesar". Moving houses last year didn't help with progress on this effort, but in the summer I did get a second bunch of Hospitallers based up and primed and...well, you know how the rest goes...
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| Love how his hood hangs over his brow...adds to a menacing air... |
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| Another view of the mounted banner man. |
But here we with AHPC XV, and I managed to make a bit more progress again! These sculpts are just amazing to paint - beautiful, proper metal sculpts created by the talented hand of Paul Hicks...what else could a hobby squirrel want?? The colour palette for these warriors is fairly basic and muted, but still fun to work with. The shields are hand-painted, not my preference, but it didn't turn out too badly.
Stay tuned for a flurry of further Painting Challenge submissions as we head into the spring - thanks for reading!
4 comments:
Was worried you boys had shut up shop! Great to see you back and lovely job on those Crusaders Greg ;-)
Cheers James - we are still around and kicking! For my part, I just got lazy on the blogging side. A number of the Conscripts made impressive contributions to the recent AHPC, so I hope they might "catch up" over here on the home blog as well at some point.
That is wonderful work on great figures.
"I have waffled between hoping to play skirmish games like "Saga" and then suddenly wanting to do larger games like "Hail Caesar", and then struggling with how to base the figures..."
lol I struggle with that constantly.
Great work here dude! Great period and these models are typical of Hicksy, i.e. superb :-)
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