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Carolingians

Carolingians complete

So I will complete my Carolingian cavalry with my Mediterranean style basing

I use gloss partly because it gives protection as these figures are to be handled and partly because at 3 feet away on a game table it lifts the colours

The budgie grit bases will get a 3 stage paint job and some tufted plants!So that’s it for these chaps, next up are some strelets normans

Despite a bad plastic soldier review which I follow avidly Charlie and his guard have a decent look about them
I am quite pleased with my light cavalry unit
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Carolingians

Carolingian cavalry started

So next up on the painting table are some Carolingian cavalry. Plastic soldier review (http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com) slated the horses but beggars can’t be choosers as they say. Carolingian cavalry are less loved than the infantry and even those have to be nicked off your Saxons somehow.

Here are my primer choices again persisting with PVA versus VJ grey primer on soap washed and scrubbed 1/72 strelets medium plastic.

These Carolingians will double up as Franks as well. I also painted a few Normans (on the left above) into the bargain, again Strelets 1/72, being from some of their original sets.

As you can see the VJ primer shows up the detail straight away which I like.

So first I cleaned the flash – not too bad and then matched the figures as per the photo on the box art, pinning and gluing the horsemen to the horses. After priming and white undercoating, I painted the horses with coat d’arms horse colours – looking good already – followed by blacking out the metallics.