October 2019 Painting Tally

Samhain Constructs - 4
HYW English Bowmen - 24
2 x units ECW shotte - 24
1 x unit ECW pikemen - 16
Imps - 3
medieval villagers - 3
HYW casualties - 6

Month total - 80

Year total - 777

Roses - Men at Arms

A wall of steel!

Doddle to knock these out rapidly, shade them and get some weathering done. Really happy with them.

Think I've got more than enough for now as I've somewhere in the region of 86 total.

I'm gonna need to schedule a game in, I think........

Roses - Personalities

All armies need leaders, so I've put a few together using the Foot Knights box.

First up good ol' Edward IV, accompanied by his standard bearer. Who has no name, so lets call him Blaybourne.

Fairly simple to put together, brassed up the armour to make him stand out a bit, as if a whacking great standard isn't going to do enough standing out.

On to Warwick - one of my personal favourites from the era, the magnificent duplicitous bastard.

Went for a more "barking orders" look to this one. Really, I should have done him hacking his horse to death and bellowing I AIN'T GOING NOWHERE YOU SLAGS, which I believe is what he actually said to the troops.

And finally, Somerset, because someone has to face these two. And I've made him almost the same pose as Warwick. This is because I'm an idiot who didn't really pay attention to the model I'd just made beforehand, but there you go.

However, came out rather nicely and a good commanding look about him.

Also, I managed to focus the above pic on the standard bearer, rather than the commander. Its not intentional that the Lancastrians got the rough end of this work, I promise.

Bit of a Towton theme going on here as well.

Lastly, the standards. Now, I enjoy painting these, I always do. Its a micro project in itself, but I always cock them up when adding to the model and getting the wave effect, so they go a bit out of alignment, but never mind, won't matter when the forces are lined up en masse

Start with the outlines.........

Bit of colouring in...... 

.........and we're done.

15th Century French

I like painting a good red livery, so naturally the French were gonna appear in this colour at some point.

These are all from the Perry plastic Mercenaries box - yet another one that's a winner. They'll be put to all sorts of uses really, and I may well expand out to another pike block for them. Need a leader too, thinking about it.

Flag is nice and simple too, which is a bonus.

This village is being hotly contested.........

Hundred Years War - English Men at Arms

Men at Arms. English ones. Hundred Years Wars.

I did some HYW units earlier in the year, but after a bit of consideration, I'm going to switch those to WotR (which was the original plan with them) and keep that as the main ranked/big blocks era for these sorts of games.

However, I still like the (later part of the) HYW and reckon I'll keep this one as the skirmish gaming, so I can get use out of the couple of boxes I've got kicking about. Maybe Lion Rampant rules, I reckon, if I can find a suitable location to play.

Still, heres the first of the new English army - 12 Men at Arms. All done using the preferred style of painting now and a hell of an enjoyable paint!

Think I might just tidy up the St George on some of those rondels though, as the red is looking a bit chubby.