Wednesday, 19 December 2018
On the eighth day of Christmas
....OK I hear you say "It's three days since his last post", but who's counting? Yuletide preparations have taken precedence. That said, last night I managed to finish two more units of knights, The first (above) is Giovanni de Medici, and the second, below, are some knights for the Bande Nere, the Black Bands of Giovanni, which confusingly appear to have post-dated his unfortunate encounter with a cannon ball.
Both units are plastic Perry minis from the small army I recently bought from Richard Hampson-Smith, highlighted and inked. All the flags are from Pete's flags- and rather lovely! You can find them on eBay. The stands of knights with banners will be the command stands.
You'll see I have only three units to go; one more lot of knights, some scruffy spearmen and some formed crossbows. I don't have any of these minis, exactly, but I have others that can proxy for them and I'll see if I can get some more on bases before Christmas!
Sunday, 16 December 2018
On the seventh day of Christmas...
...six more barber-shop knights a'lancing. The six new ones at the rear were painted by Parisian chum Lionel and I merely did a little inking and highlighting. I haven't stuck them down, because I might want to add some "socks" to a few of the horses.
Seven down, five to go. Tomorrow, instead of painting, I shall try to publish the army list. The remaining units look likely to take a couple of days each to finish, so I probably won't finish by Christmas; but you never know!
If you are coming to Chalgrove, please get your army list over to Tim Thompson by Christmas, if at all possible. If you aren't booked in, but would like to come on February 23rd, please drop me a line!
Saturday, 15 December 2018
On the sixth day of Christmas....
...we have the final four mounted crossbows, a skirmishing.Again, Perry minis from Richard Hampson-Smith that I have highlighted; still loving the yellow and black.
The great thing about this FK&P6 base size (above left), is that I can use two elements for a unit on a 15cm grid, or three on a 20cm grid, so I can use the minis for both competition and for larger display games. There's a double-sized element (FK&5, right), too, with twice the footprint that will help me to keep the overall number of bases to a minimum, which will save time when deploying the army.
I love to recycle basing material; it saves time, money and (in a tiny way) the environment, so I'm reusing material salvaged from Richard's bases.
Here's the army to date. This is the most organised army build that I've every managed! :-)
I was going through my loft today and I keep finding more units of painted WOTR and Burgundian minis; I must have two or three hundred of them!
Friday, 14 December 2018
On the fifth day of Christmas...
...four more mounted crossbowmen, a skirmishing. These are minis from the army I bought from Richard Hampson-Smith, highlighted. Who would have thought that lemon and black would work? It really does. The banner is the first of many in this army from Pete Smith- it is one of the Bande Nere flags which depicts two devils playing dice; quite stunning! If only they were playing cards. ;-) Pete's lovely Medieval and Renaissance flag designs can be found here.
You'll see I am nearly at the half-way stage of building my army for Chalgrove, although the larger and more complex units, the knights and formed foot, are mostly still to come.
Thursday, 13 December 2018
On the fourth day of Christmas...
...we have six more skirmishing crossbowmen, that I plan to use to screen my expensive knights. There are retouches of minis from an army I recently bought from Richard Hampson-Smith.
The army is starting to come together; I'm currently plugging away at some more mounted crossbowmen. I hope I can keep the unit-a-day rate up...
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
On the third day of Christmas...
...we have four crossbowmen, prancing.
Four mounted crossbowmen, bought from a chap in Sweden and highlighted- the first of three such elements. I love the red and green that he picked.
Three down; nine to go! I am loving the Perry plastics... when they are done, I'll have an easily portable army that I can take to competitions next year.
Four mounted crossbowmen, bought from a chap in Sweden and highlighted- the first of three such elements. I love the red and green that he picked.
Three down; nine to go! I am loving the Perry plastics... when they are done, I'll have an easily portable army that I can take to competitions next year.
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
On the second day of Christmas...
...we have six later knights a lancing. These are Perry plastics painted by chum Lionel in Paris, and highlighted by me. They are great minis and paint jobs; a later photo, once based, will do them more justice. Lionel is painting some more for me; there will be 30 mounted knights in the army.
In broad terms the army is going to consist of five units of later nights, five skirmishing crossbowmen (three mounted, two on foot), and a unit each of formed crossbowmen and spearmen.
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