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Friday, 1 February 2019

(READY Friday) From PaulSS - Hundred Years War French infantry (60 points)

Here we go again with another dozen French foot from the Perry Miniatures plastic sets. These represent a small retinue of militia spearmen led by a sergeant. All the arms and most of the bodies and heads are from the Agincourt French Infantry 1415-29 set while a few of the bodies and heads are from the English Army 1415-1429 set.

While painting some of the English archers from last weeks post I had done one of them in a green and brown livery that I really liked, so, decided that I wanted to do a whole unit of troops in that colour.

A few people have asked about the colours and technique I use. Everything unless noted is from the Vallejo Model Colour range.

The livery green is Reflective Green while the livery brown is Flat Earth, the secondary colours for the other clothing are Basalt Grey, Field Drab, Russian Uniform and Stone Grey. The spears are Chocolate Brown and a lot of the leather is Saddle Brown..

Everything is blocked in as a base-coat and washed with Army Painter Strong Tone (water based one) and after dried the base-coats are re-applied and one or two highlights added by mixing in a lighter colour to the original colour.

Once these are dried the detail is picked out by brown-lining with Windsor & Newton Peat Brown inks.

Hopefully nobody is getting too bored of all these Hundred Years War figures I am doing for the challenge, apologies if you are but I've only got 48 foot and 18 horse left in the backlog and then I can make a start on something else.

These should also add 60 points for me to the Hither do I Challenge Thee (SD4) duel.

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Only 48 foot and 18 horse left? My God, man, your lead pile is running dangerously low. You'd better send off to the Perrys and stock back up, tout suite!

Another 12 spearmen put 60 points up on the board for you. You and Adam really are duking it out this week. You'd best take advantage of his bye period to get some heavy horse for your force!