Late Crusader Army complete

[PhilC]

My Late Crusader Army for DBA and l'Art de la Guerre is now complete, here you are:



A focus on the Templar knights:


And some Hospitalers:


There are of course foot soldiers, such as these:


And a command unit to lead them all:


I used minis from several ranges and manufacturers: Strelets, Italeri, Hät, Orion and Valdemar for the general. As I usually say (to my blog, not to my wife), it is real fun to mix so many different figures.
Their opponents (an Ayyubid army) are being painted, but there's probably a lot to wait before it's over.

Many more pictures and comments here: https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2020/05/late-crusader-army-complete.html

[Mr. Andrea]

Love your armies! This one is great!

[CliosPaintingBench]

I've always loved your work (especially your recent Greek hoplites) and this one is excellent as usual. Your blog inspired me to get back into 1/72 after years.

[Emperor]

WOW This is some good painted army

[stephane42]

wonderfull figurines !! great army!

[Ben90]

Looks excellent! The way you have painted the white in this dusty sand color ist a nice touch!

[Konrad]

Impressive army!
Very nice work.

[Wiking]

I like the blue knight most. It is the bigges contrast in color. And look good as all.

Also the background is nice.

[Kekso]

I'm impressed

[Michael Robert]

Very nice PhilC!

[PhilC]

Thank you very much for your comments!

I've always loved your work (especially your recent Greek hoplites) and this one is excellent as usual. Your blog inspired me to get back into 1/72 after years.

I'm really happy that my small production inspired you - by the way, your ancient Celts are excellent!

Looks excellent! The way you have painted the white in this dusty sand color ist a nice touch!

As you have noticed, I try to paint my figures with as much accuracy as possible. Regarding clothes, I paint them bleached and not white (the detergent containing enzymes didn't exist during middle age ).

[guilhem]

Excellent ! bravo au top (tu es français non?)

[PhilC]

Merci. Ouaip
But I'll stick to English on this forum.

[SamSagace]

Merci. Ouaip
But I'll stick to English on this forum.

(... c'est plus facile en français ! mais on s'adapte ! )

You have done a great painting work !
You're right about the white.
I suppose that their clothes were done with linen ... (lin) not exactly white.

[Susofrick]

Very nice!

[Mart17]

I love it!
What do you use for shading?

[PhilC]

You're right about the white.
I suppose that their clothes were done with linen ... (lin) not exactly white.

Yes, according to wikipedia (I'm certainly not an expert), the most common clothes were mostly made of wool (laine), linen (lin) or hemp (chanvre).
And according to Osprey Knight Templar, "under their tunics, the brothers wore a shirt, which was normally of wool, but they were allowed to wear linen in summer because of the heat of the Middle East".
I suppose that their tunics were made of wool.

I love it!
What do you use for shading?

I use GW Agrax Earthshade, which is a dark brown wash. I you're interested in an explanation on how I paint white clothes, you can find it here:

https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2020/01/fusiliers-grenadiers-of-imperial-guard.html

[MABO]

I love to add applause as well! Very impressive army. So much colours in the desert. Like seen in Kingdom of Heaven.