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Whirlwind03 Feb 2013 2:54 a.m. PST

I'm tackling some of the more obscure parts of the lead/plastic mountain, and I have found some of these:

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Any advice on which colours to paint them? Perhaps ideally a painting guide or pictures of a painted army.

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KatieL03 Feb 2013 4:00 a.m. PST

Paint the metal, wood, flesh as normal.

Tights and undershirts in a mix of pale browns/tans/greens/buffs.

The overshirts are the "livery" -- the uniforms of the day. Generally these would be split vertically -- left-hand-side in one primary colour, right in an another. It could also be a single colour, split into quarters (done in two colours) or horizontal stripes (but this was rarer).

Popular colour schemes were red/blue, white/some-other-colour, all-red, all-blue. They sort of seem to follow heraldic rules about how to make fields (metal and non-metal), but the rules are broken more often.

If you're doing generic medievals, paint them in batches sharing the colours, then mix them up into your units. They would be issued livery by the man who hired them, but in battle they'd be mixed up and grouped by weapon (all the archers in batches, all the polearms in batches).

If you're after doing HYW, the livery should include more white with a big red cross on it; the king required all the English soldiers to wear it.

The quilted/striped tops are padded armour. It's basically like a duvet – linen stuffed with shreds/feathers/wool/whatever. I tend to do these starting light brown and shade up to buff/linen tones.

Here's some of my 28s from that era;

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IGWARG1 Supporting Member of TMP Fezian03 Feb 2013 6:55 a.m. PST

Check Revell box art on the same website: link and link

I found them very useful when I was just starting my painting hobby and painted those particular sets.

combatpainter Fezian03 Feb 2013 7:59 a.m. PST

Use wet palette

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