I’ve posted a couple of pics of other Military Orders models before, but now’s the time to see a couple of the guys who it’s really about.
The Knight of the ‘Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre’ is a high point model. He has solid stats, a rapid fire gun with good ranges, and an exploding sword (not sure how that works). His main trick though is his holoprojector. This piece of kit allows him to either duplicate himself twice, so he walks around with 2 ‘echoes’ that enemy models have to choose between targeting, or instead assume the form of any friendly model during deployment.
De Fersen is a bit of an oddity in the Military Orders. Whereas most knights have a fairly simple combat style (big gun, big sword, heavy armour), De Fersen is actually a hacker. And, even more bizarrely for PanOceania in general, he’s actually a pretty good one. This makes him a bit of a toolkit on the battlefield – he has all the stats and weaponry of any other knight, but if needs be he can protect an Airborne deployment, or attempt to immobilise enemy TAGs. This flexibility comes at a price, of course, and he’s one of the most expensive models PanO can field (outside of the TAG depot).
For the Military Orders models, I’m trying to stick as close as possible to the ‘official’ schemes, mainly because they’re based on real historical uniforms from the medieval/crusading era. All of the armour was painted in Army Painter Wolf Grey, with Dark Tone wash and an old Citadel Horizon Blue highlight. I decided against a contrasting colour for the shins as there isn’t a colour that really fits into all the different Knightly Orders. Instead, the unifying identifier for the army will be the right shoulder pad painted in solid white.
The Knight of the Sepulchre was then given black robes in the same style as the other coats and robes I’ve done for PanOceania – Vallejo Black Grey as a basecoat, with a Dark Tone wash, Uniform Grey highlight and then a 2nd wash. The inner part of the coat was done in Vallejo Imperial Purple.
De Fersen’s robes were done with a basecoat of aVallejo’s Scarlet Red, again with Dark Tone, then highlighted with AP Dragon Red. The cross was then first picked out with Black Grey, then a thinner cross of AP White was painted across it. It was a bit of a pain to try to trace the pattern across the folds of the robe, but I think it worked out.
Challenge Tally: 314/365