Pushing on into the second level of the Dungeon, I'm now submitting a post from within 'The Armoury'.
This sees me returning to an old favourite - my 1683, Siege of Vienna Project and padding out the Ottoman forces somewhat. Basis the premise that you can never have too much cavalry in an Ottoman army I am painting up another squadron of Heavy Armoured Cavalry.
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| Undercoated Ottoman Armoured Cavalry, waiting for further attention |
(By the way I have an Ottoman Janissary Orta, lined up to be painted in the next couple of weeks as well some tents / camp equipment that will add flavour to ay table top game - hopefully)
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| Finished Ottoman Armoured Cavalry |
I think I have described in previous challenges how I have sourced Ottoman cavalrymen from eBay without horses, or with horse models that I was not happy with, and have substituted plastic horses from the Hat Industre 28mm 'El Cid' range to provide mounts. I have done this again here.
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| Unit from their left flank, highlighting the generic standard |
I repeat the note of caution - I do not rate the mounted figures that come in the above boxes so throw these away and use just the horses.
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| Another view of the unit, from the right flank |
So these little guys are all armed with a lance and shield, the shields are from the Wargames Atlantic Medieval Irish and / or Afghanistan packs - both looking suitably Turkish. I have not gone overboard and armed these guys with bows and / or firearms as with previous iterations as I felt I needed to have some more 'run of the mill' type troops to bulk out the army.
A white undercoat started the painting process, and then a mix of bright colours to do their trousers and coats, 'Oily Steel' for the armour and 'Monster Brown' for the fur cloaks.
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| Close up of three of the guys |
I applied various washes to the figures, this time an overall 'Sepia' to et whole figure before picking out armour using black ink and the fur using brown ink.
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| Finally the other three guys! |
The flag is a generic Ottoman standard.
Figures are glued to plastic bases and then matt varnished and ground texture applied - i.e. fine sand and static grass plus a few random tufts.
