Not much progress, but I thought to show my batch painting method. I used blu-tac to attach the knights and faramir on a piece of wood and primed them on that device. Then I sprayed silver paint over them to avoid painting the steel armours by hand. My plan is to continue with spraying a black wash over them and drybrushing them with silver paint.

On the background you can see their horses (except Faramir's). The horses skin and hair are finished and the rest of the colours are "marked" on them using just basecoats. Next phase is shading and highlighting those saddles and other details.