Hamsta's Path of Conquest, The 100 Kingdoms
Entry 2 - My Cunning Plan - Mounted Squires
Too small? Maybe a little bit, but whatever.As you will know (assuming you have read my introduction entry), I am basing my 100 Kingdoms on an old WHFB Bretonnian army I painted up many years ago, and an important part of that image was a unit (or 2) of mounted squires to accompany my noble knights into battle.
Whilst the 100K does have such a unit listed on the Army Builder, no models currently exist, or at least they haven’t been released, or even revealed yet (as far as I know), but I’m not prepared to wait!
Before I received any of my models, I was already hatching this plan, so a quick google found an image showing the heights of the some of the Conquest models (including the Knights), so I could take a stab at the scale, and it’s pretty close to “O gauge” model trains, so i began looking for O gauge horses.
Eventually I found some that were not too expensive, and ordered 4 in the hope they would work.
They are a little on the small side, but if I beef up the base a little, they’ll get pretty close, and then I’ll add saddles, blankets, straps, etc, and they should be pretty close, especially as outriders/scouts would be on smaller faster horses compared to the knights.
I plan to use some men at arms as the basis for the riders, with a few minor changes using green stuff, maybe giving them spears instead of swords, etc.
But these will likely not be until at least Step 2 of the path, but since I mentioned it in entry 1, I didn’t want to leave you hanging.
Stay tuned for more.
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