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Tibetan Cataphracts

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:57 am
by Spartacus
I am about to start painting a Tibetan Army 7th - 9th Century (Empires=List 72)

As it has a lot of Cataphracts I have been searching for info on the Armour.

I have come to this final conclusion :-

Units would be uniformed and the Armour could be any colour I want.

Would this be about right? I hope so as I did not want to end up with a Chainmail coloured Army.

Any links or info would be much appreciated. (No money offered though :lol: )

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:12 pm
by will05
don't know much about this, but there some nice ones at Khurasan

http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/tibetan.html

A lot of metal though.

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:35 pm
by Spartacus
Aye Will.

That`s the little Hombres I bought. They are lovely figures.

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:57 pm
by spikemesq
Those figures look like you could paint the barding as quilted material instead of metal.

Spike

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:14 pm
by Spartacus
That`s the way I intend doing them Spike. But wanted to see if anyone could come up with anything better than I could after an evenings searching.

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:03 pm
by khurasan_miniatures
Spartacus wrote:That`s the way I intend doing them Spike. But wanted to see if anyone could come up with anything better than I could after an evenings searching.
Could also be painted armour, that was done sometimes. Or horn -- that was done too.

As to the metallic, I actually like the look of bare metal. You can actually get a lot of variety out of it, painting the sold bits a little lighter and the chainmail quite dark. Looks striking.

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:26 pm
by Spartacus
khurasan_miniatures wrote: Could also be painted armour, that was done sometimes. Or horn -- that was done too.

As to the metallic, I actually like the look of bare metal. You can actually get a lot of variety out of it, painting the sold bits a little lighter and the chainmail quite dark. Looks striking.
Well just to keep the manufacturer happy, My next 5 battlegroups will be metallic :-

Copper/Bronze/Gold/Silver but one is going to be White Horn. Sorry khurasan :lol: