"Gallic/ancient German horse. Anything special?" Topic

I'm about to paint up some barbarian cavalry and was wondering if there was more variety in their coloring as compared to Napoleonic era horse. For those I stick with about 70% bays of various shades with chestnuts making up the bulk of the remainder. Any evidence for anything more exotic in the earlier time period?

I have the Warlord Miniatures Celtic Cavalry box in my painting queue.

The box art shows a number of greys, browns and bays. No blacks or whites (light grey).

When I paint mine I'll probably do a few piebalds/skewbalds because I want to.

I would say about 60-70 % of horses are bay in Europe at the time, in the other parts of the world you would have different colour dominances, the whole pinto thing which is a different colour scheme to pie and skewbald is another example you wouldn't have in Europe at that time.

But for your purposes you can do two or three shades of bay ( light bay, dark bay for example ) for your 60-75 % range with chestnuts, duns, skewbald, piebald and greys making up the rest. I like most others tend to put generals on greys, for being able to easily see them on table.

There are roans and some other colours also etc. but stick with the above and you can't go far wrong.

Aynsley