So this month's painting competition gave me some motivation to paint a couple of knights. One is a Knight Encarmine, one of GW's secular orders with a color scheme and some basic background material. I love the red armoured knights, so I decided I needed a unit in my army.
The other is from an order of my own design, the Order of the Ship & Lobster...
The Ship & Lobster was a coaching inn near the Nordland coast, attacked one night by a large raiding party of norse. Wilhelm Traeger, brother of the landlord of the Ship & Lobster and captain of the local militia force, arrived with his men too late to catch the norsemen or save the inn, but did find his dying brother in the courtyard, a norse arrow through his neck. With his dying breath, Gerald Traeger told his brother the location of the inn's gold & reserves of fine ale and asked him to avenge the loss of the finest drinking establishment in a hundred miles.
Wilhelm took the partially burned sign from the Ship & Lobster, and with the considerable wealth from the inn's safe, equipped his men with horses, weapons and armour. Hoisting the sign high, and with a cart of fine ale in tow, he and his men vowed to kill any and all norse raiders.
My other diy knightly order is another based in Nordland, also equipped with great weapons, the Order of the Sea Porcupine. Haven't done any of those guys yet though...