Going Medieval

I love history, especially the medieval era, and this 75mm figure just caught my eye immediately. I loved the different contrasts of the chain mail together with the white tabard of the Templar Knights. This figure is from the Scale 75 range.

In the box cover the artists had painted the cloak in black but to me this did not seem very realistic since these men were supposed to be the poor knights of the temple. I chose the typical cloth looking colour for the cloak.


This was achieved by simply using brown dry brushed on a black undercoat. Several coats were needed to get the uniform main colour. Then  a bit of white was added to the main brown for the raised areas.

Since this figure is supposed to be in combat i put a bit of blood on the axe to further emphasize this. Note the blood spatter on the tabard done with a bit of red on a toothbrush and then "splashed" on very carefully. 

The box cover model also had one other thing that i did not think it was accurate for the Templar knights and that was the red cross. The artist had done a cross that, although looked very nice, it resembled the emblem of the knights of St.John. I decided to make it more realistic and go for the simple cross. 


This was done with pencil first and then carefully going over it with red paint.

The base i found was perfect for this figure. The oval wooden base fits the model just right. For the scenery i made the "rocky" part using paper mache, sculpted it and then let it dry. Then painted it brown, gave it an ink wash and then re-painted it again. Then a few bits of sand and grass here and there completed the desert sort of look i was going for. 

Voila, one crusader ready for battle.