Mike's Knight of Bal Timorea, part 2

Hey! Where are all our fellow Knights of Bal Timorea? Wait, we are trying to inspire you all to paint up a knight for this wonderful idea that John had a while back. Click here for the details.

Anyway, here's the horse. I went for orange as the main color. My family doesn't have a weapon and I am an immigrant from the Netherlands, so I figured it should be the color of the Dutch Royal Family, which is orange.

Here's a picture of the official Dutch Weapon

and the way most of the world knows (after the last World Cup Soccer this summer, hehehe)

So I figure I will try to make the lion white on the black background. I am trying to paint it, but maybe I will use the Santa Cruz Warhammer way with photoshop and decals to make this work

I have a lot of fun painting this model, definitely out of my comfortzone (which is good once in a while) and I am trying the go for the ragged and worn look. Blending up top and glazing on the dirty parts of the cloth, trying to bring down highlights in a realistic way. The rest of the horse hasn't been weathered yet, the hooves definitely need more dirt etc.