Because I have been extremely busy this week (new front door, porch,cladding,fixing and shelf building!!) my painting of my new Warrior Miniatures Mongol army has had to take second place,but now that most DIY jobs are finished,I am able to get on with the important things in life ie. wargaming things!!!
These are the five units I've finished so far,4 cavalry and one infantry unit-the colours are conjectural as I've considered two different sources,and,of course, they differ!!-one source says "drab" another source says "bonny!",so I went for a combination,taking into account that they would have access to Persian and Chinese fabrics!
A close-up of the mounted archers,classed as "light" cavalry,with two units of lance -armed cavalry,classed as "heavy",I have two more units of "heavy" types ready to paint,but will need at least another 50 more "light" types......................
This shows the two "heavy" types about to be painted,and then it's onto the Infantry,made up of Chinese and Korean auxiliaries.
They shouldn't take too long-there's only 80 of them!!!
Then I will have to order some Polish,Russian and Lithuanian knights,plus some Teutonics,to fight them!!-will it ever end????
John Holt of Warrior Miniatures sent me some samples,and I have very quickly(does this sound like an excuse for bad painting?) painted them to see what they will look like.................
The red figure is a Polish knight with a winged helm,and the other is a Teutonic knight-they will look impressive "en masse" (I hope!!)
Roll on Sunday-Brian is organising the game,and I will report on this as well as Paul's game which we played last Sunday.
