Saturday, 25 February 2017

13th Century Mongols.

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.























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6 comments:

  1. Springinsfeld25 February 2017 at 17:20

    Great progress. I really like the knights and the fancy crest.

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    1. william coutts27 February 2017 at 10:54

      Hi Springinsfeld,I do tend to paint at a very fast rate(shown in the standard of finished article) so I should have all the cavalry done today,and get a start on the Korean and Chinese auxiliaries soon.
      Thanks for comment.
      johnc(william)

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  2. Independentwargamesgroup25 February 2017 at 17:26

    John,
    They are very nice figures, I love the knights. Well done.

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    1. william coutts27 February 2017 at 10:56

      Hi Robbie-praise indeed!!-I was hoping to "persuade" Brian to paint some knights up but he wouldn't "bite" so I've got a bit of a future job on my hands.
      johnc

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  3. Neil26 February 2017 at 09:48

    Hello there,

    Your Mongols are coming along nicely, I had considered doing this period as my next project but in the end I decided on Vikings and Saxons, I look forward to seeing all those Mongol cavalry in action after you finish the small matter of painting them all!
    Cheers
    Neil

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    1. william coutts27 February 2017 at 10:59

      Hi Neil,good to hear from you again,it's a fascinating period once you start to research it-on BBC2 this Friday at 1.05am(would you call that Saturday?) the film "Ghengis Khan" is on,starring Omar Shariffe-might be worth a record?
      johnc

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