fantasy knights


  • I was thinking a lot about fantasy knights recently, and what I might want out of a modular kit for them. This is definitely something that exists, but most of the kits are either very early 2000s Warcraft styled (Kings of War Basileans) or very Crusader/Templar styled (Fireforge, Victrix, WGA!). Also, while this could be more of an upgrade sprue for a more historical kit, I don't think that would be able to do the concept justice! 

    Anyways, using a quiet lunch break and some shoddy MSpaint skills, I sketched up a theoretical sprue. Basically, I wanted a good mix of "could be actual historical", "could be ceremonial historical", and "pure fantasy". I also took some inspiration from the wonderful Excalibur and Sword of the Valiant movies, both of which are absolute classics and you should go watch. Right now. I'm not asking.

    I imagine a kit like this could be used for a lot of things, including dnd, turnip28, warhammer, and greathelm, whenever that comes out to us non-kickstarter peasants. Part of the idea behind it is that you can kind of mix in historical and other fantasy bits, and that everything should be as modular as possible. While historical knights were usually wealthy and highly ornamented, their fantasy counterparts run the gamut from "broke adventurer" to "literal demigod" so stuff like decorations, shoulderpads, etc, would probably be seperate. Let me know if there's anything else you might want to add, because I really love drawing knights (in case you couldn't tell). 



  • @timbus the thirteenth I would just focus on pure fantasy aspects if it is possible to imagine just fantasy armor and not real world hunderd years war armor, etc. Leave historical for historical sets since at the end of the day the fantasy human set should be 100% compatable with the historical sets. 


  • Fair enough, the only thing would point out is that most houndskull bascinets tend to come with integrated neck chainmail if we were to be historically accurate. It's an iconic helmet in the fantasy world, so it would be nice to have a variant that can be put onto plate armor, given a plume, etc. but some variation to make it more than pure historical could help it feel more worth its space on the sprue.


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