"Recommendations towards painting 10mm Crusaders." Topic

I have ordered 10mm OG figures to do armies for the Third Crusade. I've never painted this small a scale before and wondered how folks recommend I approach it (aside from sending them out to be painted ).

Thanks.
Oggie

Assuming that they have little visible armour, I would go for a white under coat, followed by a brown or dark grey wash. Depending on how heavy your wash is you may want to do a quick dry brush of white over the top.

This gives you a pre-shading, with dark depths and pale highlights.

Then I would paint with fairly thin paint – a bit thicker than a wash, but you don't want total coverage, so the pre-shading works.

Not the same period but an example of some of my figures – kerynne.com/games/wss.html

If they have lots of armour, then I would go for black base, silver highlight -- all over. Then block in the rest.
Some elves done this way – kerynne.com/games/WMElf.html

I glue mine to thin wooden strips to make it easier. Then I start with the most prevalent color (metal for knights, off-white for cloth, etc) then pick out any minor details like spear staffs, skin color and the like. I never go crazy on the details since you can't see them anyway, and it makes things go quickly.

Hope this helps.

Thanks all; the knights are a mix of barded horse w/ surcoats and unbarded with mail etc. so a mix of both techniques. Thanks fres12df

St Crispin's method will work for the infantry; they are all capes and shields.

Any figures with a large amount of armor or mail I base coat with metallic silver spray paint. When dry I paint all non-metal areas with a medium brown craft paint and then wash the whole miniature with black ink. I go heavier ink on the mail and lighter (more water added) on any plate armor, helmets, scale, lamelar, etc. Then paint the rest of the figure. It works quickly covering large areas in a short amount of time. I use this method on 15's and 25's.