At last I manage to finish some project, fully, succesfully and completely!
I wanted to paint something, and hence I gave a look at my various boxes. The set that more needed a painting was the Seljuk Cavalry, as they are almost identical as the Arab Cavalry from Strelets (so much I had to recheck on PSR who was who!) and for wargaming this is very annoying. I preferred to keep the Arab Cavalry as it was for the moment, and hence paint the Seljuks to enhance their "seljukicity" :P .
While looking at them it struck me they were not completely fitting for me what I would understand as Seljuks. Call me picky, but I would imagine them more nomadic and slim. These, hence, suggested me something later, and much more arabic.
Hence with a bit of research I decided to paint them as Zengids, which was a Beylik, a small state loosely under the Seljuk authority, of Seljuk ethnicity but quite mixed with arabic influence, based in Mosul. They fought against the Crusaders taking Edessa most famously.
They fitted inside what one would call Seljuk, and it's quite impossible nobody releases a set of Zengids proper, hence perfect :-) .
So, I applied mainly yellow-orange-maroon, with some touches of nomadic blue and dark colours.
Once finished the painting, they struck me as much too clean, and hence I used Games Workshops inkings, that while not wonderful, they give a good sense of realism, and they give a bit of varnish protection too, which allowed me to skip that tedious phase.
As a bonus, I did a small foot archer :-) .
The highlight of them, is I believe, the chrome paint. I used a marker, and so I painted two swords and the masked seljuk.
Hope you like them and would love to read your impressions :P .
