The
Battle of Fraga 1134 was
quite the clash of arms involving three of the bog players in Spain
at that time, the Christian King
Alfonso I of Aragon (the
Battler) and
the Islamic armies of Ibn
'Iyad and Yahya
ben Ghaniya (I
suspect that his name might be Yahya *ibn* Ghaniya but I have no
Arabic so this is pure speculation going on what little I do know).
I'm
going to be focusing on the Islamic forces to tart off with as I have
had some experience painting these forces, both up to Collectors
Standard and to Wargames Standard. I'm going to go for a good
Wargames Standard as I have a ***lot*** or mini's to paint and about
five months to paint all the miniatures, both Christian and
Islamic as well as producing the terrain boards!! Yep, that's a lot
of work! As an aside, for those who follow my Gewalthaufen
Blog I
will also be putting together units for The
Battle of Marignano. Marignano has not been forgotten!
Back
on track; a few years back I found that I has some spare Artizan
Moors, certainly bought on a whim, combined with some spare painting
time so I gave them a very quick wargames standard paint job. This
was facilitated by the large areas of cloth on the mini's which was
painted black, dry brushed with a few layers of gradually lightened
greys then given a thick wash of Nuln Oil. The rest of the clothing
on the mini's such a sleeves and pants were painted in quickly using
various browns light and the turbans and cloaks were painted with
Wargames Foundry Deep Blue triad. Given that they were painted very
quickly they came out rather well.
I'm
going to be using a similar palette to below but being focusing on
neatness a little more. I managed to dig these pics out of my
old Photoshop account:
