Painting Bretonnian Knights - HC 435 

Vince's contributions to the miniature painting community are massive, and as a new painter, I highly appreciate them. You're the man, Vince!

I look forward to these videos every week. Thank you again for all that you do!

Really appreciate your efforts of including so much useful info on a variety of topics in a single video.

This channel is incredible. The clarity, the methodical way mini painting is taught, and the depth of the explanations is just phenomenal. It's like getting tutored in painting chapel ceilings by Michaelangelo.

I really loved seeing the blending technique used on the purple barding, it made it really easy to see how you implemented the technique & it looked fantastic on the finished model!

The most accessible Knight tutorial I've seen. Excellent video sir!

My God, you make this look so easy. Truly incredible to watch

I have a friend that is very hardcore painting, to the point he gives me alot of troouble for how i army paint, not going super ham on everything like he does. thanks for showing me that we dont hae to go 100 on everything. sometimes it just painting itself that is enjoyable.

"O what a knight!"! Simple but looks great and appreciate the tips. Thanks Vince!!!

Looks really nice. I'm just finishing building my Bretonians from the starter box and I got an old starter box off a mate to bolster my forces too. Still trying to decide on a scheme, but very tempted to go with the errantry crusade.

I can't believe using a flat brush never occurred to me. Mind blown

As a wet blender I loved seeing that blend from peach orange right into purple!

Love it. I love the wet on wet, I've appreciated this technique from your channel before. Thanks!

Great video Mr. Venturella! Loved seeing those Fanatic paints in use.

Thanks so much, I love these Saturday videos.

Thank you for producing this Vince - love the 'Old World content!

I love purples and violets, and especially a purple-white color scheme, but both of these colors can be a bother to shade well, so seeing this thumbnail was pretty exciting. While I prefer Bretonnians in particular even more colorful and over the top, this is still really useful as a purple/white/horse painting guides all in one, so thanks a lot!

Great video and awesome to see a flat brush being used, I have in my acrylic brush collection but not used as no one does in videos so good to see that and put my mind at ease to start using. Hint where you say you wipe you brush on a damp tissue paper, I find a damp sponge say in a little container like a make up pot to clean my brushes as I work.

Thanks Vince. I wish I had access to you and RU-vid back in 1998 when I was painting MY Brettonians. 😆

Very cool. I very much like the use of the Magnesium paint as a base coat for the chain mail. It really does give a sense of mass to that surface.

Excellent work! I've been planning on using these same colors but on Tomb Kings and this definitely helped inspire me and some very useful tips. Wonderful color scheme and paintjob!

Suggestion for improving workflow: if you did the decals before the airbrushing the varnish, you get a even more even finish and you save time because of not having to brush varnish after applying the decal.

Thanks for another great “tips” tutorial that will help on lots,of,future projects.

That flesh tone for the purple highlight was interesting

Excellent timing on this video! I'm about to paint a knight or two this weekend

AK TB Grey!!! my favorite base cote due to the red in the color. great video! thx!!!

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

As always Vince, your timing is impeccable 👌

Very nice! Horses is a dear topic to me so I’d like to give some tips and hopefully return the favor in how much I’ve learned from watching your videos. Historically and still today there’s been a great desire for certain horse colors and uniform looks. So ofc most have heard of the white horse and that it’s the color or royals and it stays true… but actually in more eastern cultures it’s the black horse (rare) that is the horse of Royalty. The eastern horses are typically a bit smaller and faster than the “European knight horses” and you could have a much bigger number of them and the colors would vary more. -Back to the European knight horses- “much bigger, much heavier, capable of carrying much more armor and basically acted as the medieval tank!” 300 mounted medieval knights was a big army. Those horses you don’t wanna pet- the horse itself was dangerous and was trained to fight. They could run you over, kick you- “even with it’s front legs” but they could also grab you with its teeth and start tossing you around or even take chunks of your flesh off. -Yes there’s been instances were they’ve bitten half a head off. “Just imagine you’re 5 guys on foot trying to take the rider out and the horse grabs you on the arm and starts shaking you around knocking your friends over and stopping on them as they fall over and then taking a piece of your flesh off as it tosses you away on the battlefield. -Due to everything around these horses, training, gear, armor, food, space and people needed to take care of them it was very hard even for the king to muster a large force, making the selection process of horses they wanted to “bet on” very picky… hence uniform colors made a criteria. Typically these were brown horses with black legs, tail and mane for the soldiers with as little white as possible but sometimes it sneaked in a small white sock or a small white star in the head of the horse. -Pink is a (depigmentation) that could cause sunburns that would also be avoided. white horses belonged typically to the royals but here’s the interesting part about white horses. They’re called grey because they have a transition progress from young to old were they start very dark brown grey with small strands of white hairs (Look Eomers horse from lotr) and then turns more and more white until it’s completely white. -This means that white horses might already be passed it’s prime age, but very well trained making them perfect horses for the royalties who might not match the skill or even have the same need for fighting on their horse. (Mostly for show) a young general/ prince might select a younger grey horse if it’s a very skilled rider and wants/ needs to fight. But mostly it was brown horses. Black horses are more rare and not necessarily hated such as chestnuts colors were but it was so much easier sticking with brown horses. -it made everything much simpler. Different color horses don’t get along as well, white horses are harder to clean, black horses during the summer is not as easy as brown horses etc. also when you select and breed the “best” horses there’s a big chance that they all become very similar and somehow related so they may look very much alike. So this was quite a bit information but I hope anyone who reads this enjoys it and helps you painting or giving a story to the horses of your armies and how to match the horse with the rank of your rider 👍🏻🔥

Thanks again Vince.

FYI - my decal process starts with a gloss varnish first, then everything you said. I find it helps give a smoother surface for it to adhere too. Mine are also mainly cadian shoulder numbers/markings, so the gloss helps with the rounded surface. May not matter on larger flat areas like these shields though.

I love how Vince say fleur de lys!!! I,m from a small place in Quebec maybe that’s why

man oh man Bold Pyrrole Red is AMAZING. ty!

Will definitely use these tips!

Seems I need to start putting those flat brushes I have on hand to use, then, when need be. If it will help me improve at wet blending, I'm all for it!

Very Saint's Row scheme vibe, nice :D

Quality vid as absolutely always I'd never go Bretonian - but I do have some absurdly late medieval arthurian stl prints to paint for fun and the flat brush is obvious now Vince points it out (so often true) Love the armour treatment for units and tabletop models, way better than acrylic wash tho I'd still pinwash with oilpaint to crisply bring out the detail (especially chainmail) such as it is.

Nice painting sir

I've never liked brettonia knights before. I am now looking forward to getting my hands on some and painting them up in a poor parody of what you've just done! Thanks for another amazing video.

Nice color scheme. 👍

Flat brushes are massively underrated. There's so much they can do, and so many ways you can modify them to do even more. The cheap synthetic taklon brushes you can get anywhere also tend to be better quality than their round or speartip brethren. Have you tried experimenting with Goldens Extend medium? I've been interested in it for a while but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

Fleur de lys, the S is said 😊 Nice video again thank you

Always amazed by your speed Vince! It takes me 15-20 hours to do one Skeleton Warrior for my Tomb Kings! Now, they look pretty great if I say so myself, but not as great as that amount of time implies. These are repaints on my original 2003 models so that adds time due to some complications caused by that, but still. It's a dream army for me as I'm building the army I couldn't afford as a teenager using only the original 2003 range of models. I'm fine with it taking a long time to really look good, but I'm now a year in with barely a couple of units and characters done so I have to speed it up if I want to be able to play the game in less than 5 years! Not really asking for anything, I'm aware of at least a few things I can do to speed it up without much loss of quality, just commenting. :)

I have really taken a, in my humble opinion, a huge step forward in my painting in the last six weeks and about 49% of that was just listening to you explaining things in your videos even though the end result and technique is out of my reach, thank you for that. Although I am unsure what the biggest thing with wet blending is, I’ve seen plenty on how to but I’m not sure as to the why. Speed and ease or better end result? It’s three years out for me, at least, but still curious. ;)

I can not tell you how much I was hoping for you to drop this video! Gives me hope as I stare down a lot of ponies and knights. More of a general question, and I feel like I know the answer is "they're your models do what you want"- what are your thoughts on going outside of the historical tinctures used for knights? Old Bretonnian boxart/army books followed it more or less, and I have a scheme in mind that doesn't quite follow it, but I'm a bit hesitant because I'm concerned it won't give the same effect when done. Also bonus question- if you were painting your first Bretonnian army now, would you use a unified scheme or the classic varied colors?

Hello lord technomancer! In your opinion, if you were to tackle a bretonnia army today from scratch, is single color scheme or technicolor bretonnia more visually appealing? Or perhaps there is a middle ground that would be best of both?

Great video Vince. Knight armour has always been a bit difficult for me to get right but this technique, and specifically the color paints used, make it easier. I do have a dumb question though - I get that magnesium + dark grey is the shadow and pure silver is the highlight, but which layer (magnesium or magnesium + silver) is the mid tone, i.e. the general overall color of the armour?

This guy looks great! If you were to paint him with contrast or speed paints how would you best do it? I'm not sure how best to zenithal prime what colours would be best across all the Knights as I wanna go old school and paint them all different, should I prime them with different colours for warm and cold colours or will all the same base prime look good?

Hey Vince, did you hear that Vallejo is also doing a new gen of Model Color? Had a flyer in my order and since you like their model color I wanted to let you know

Another excellent and timely video - thanks, Vince! I realize that Bretonnians and their heraldry are made-up, but as a heraldry nerd, I *hate* that the caparisons on their horses have shields moulded onto them. It's just... dumb. And I blame your Warhammer Wednesday shows for the fact that I spent some time over the weekend digging out and inventorying my mish-mash of old 5th ed. Bretonnians and have started trawling ebay to get the rest of what I need so that 14-year-old me can finally have the Bretonnian army he so desperately wanted. It's gonna be pricey... and did I say it was your fault?

How do you attach minis to bases for painting. Like I know you have the Knight separate form the horse and paint them individually. I am just curious how you mounted the knight to the paint stand/base thing so that its sturdy enough to paint. Thank you!

Hey dude love the chanel and love the old world content! Maybe in the future a tutorial on mummified skin or TK constructs for us bone-boys? 😉 Also side question. Ive been in love with your gold recipe ever since i saw it and i ran through a whole bottle of the vallejo metal color gold. Recently i ordered two replacement bottles in a row(from different shops) and they now have a different label dedign and look totally different. No matter how much i shake it, they come out a sickly greenish silvery color. Have you had any similar problems lately and if so, do you have any recommendations for a good gold replacement? My poor tomb kings are missing their bling! 😢

I saw a video of yours from 2 years ago "how to paint crystals" and it got me thinking I have seen tutorials on how to paint gems but I haven't seen anything about how to paint pearls, have you ever thought about how to paint pearls?

Is there any danger of the micro set/sol damaging the acrylic paints? (I'm using pro acryl) should we varnish the decal application area first? I love the content! Seeing my favorite mini painters giving tips on painting Bretonnian knights has me breaking out my 20 year old first-paint-job-ever models for some badly needed repainting haha

How wet is the paper towel you use when wet blending? Is it soaked, or just a few brush fulls of water?

Hi, what would be a good quality acrilic paint, not for miniatures but for things like diaramas, terain and buildings ? I see offten Liquitex is used but unfortunately I don't have any in my area.

It is a very small thing, but I was struck by how bright the white decal was relative to the rest of the finished model, even after the matte varnish. Is it appropriate to add shading on top of decal? I am more of a spectator than a painter, and have never used decals, so this comes from a position of naivety.

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I miss the link to the Gold recipe

Vince v is the goat

I have converted Bretonnia into undead. I’m struggling to get the varying colours of Bretonnia but to get it looking dark and evil at the same time. Any tips or advice from anyone would be great.

Vincent V, what’s your thoughts on airbrushing these Knighte?

Could you paint the new duke on Pegasus?

Deckle....always makes me laugh. Also, it's not Dee Cal either, but more like - Duh Call but good luck getting anyone to say that, lol :P

You're going to need another box of brettonians.... If only there was a raffle where you could get a box.

Why do all the recent videos have static sound in the background? is something running that wasn't before. Seems like since the new year at least there's been a static sound over the entire video.

That sort of long hair just above the hooves of a horse is called the "feathers". It can be the same color as the rest of the horse hair. If you have a different color of hsir on the lower leg(s) of a horse, that is stockings or socks. Historically in Europe, dark horses were thought to be better than light horses, so the high-prestige units (Knights, or Cuirassiers, depending on time period) tended to have very dark horses. The lighter horses were mostly used for light cavalry and attendants. One exception is that bannermen and musicians would often use grays (white is a gray for this purpose) for visibility. Also, there was a long-held belief that the hooves of horses with white stockings were more prone to splitting, so stockinged horses tended to be avoided. Also, there is often a correlation between the hoof color and the color of the hair immediately above the foot, so white stocking -> light hoof and no stocking -> dark hoof. (In a fantasy world, of course, none of this might apply. I just thought it might be interesting.)

Am I daydreaming? Is that some Charadon Granite in disguise at 6:50?

Why did you used Magnesium and not Steel? That would have been my Instinkt to get DARK metal....

they are called feathers

Deckles

Hmmmm. Did or do you have a cold these days? You nose seems a bit red. Take care.

I know this is a random comment on a bretonian painting video, but when you get your hands on Ushoran can you do a video on how you paint him? The GW video is just awful and doesn’t do him any justice at all. He needs a proper paint job from our favorite artist

I was asking myself: "Why does his nail on his thumb look so nasty", then I realized when it came into focus that it had paint on it...and then looked down at mine which had way more paint on it. 😆

We've got some typical condescending-no-people-skills-public-school-teacher-vibes going on here. bleh

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