From Simon G: A Bevy of HYW Nobles - Two 28mm Impetus Leadership Stands (35 points)

Returning to my long running late 1420s Hundred Years War project I present two Impetus leadership stands. Specifically these are William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (mounted) and Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. Both were present at the Siege of Orleans at which Salisbury lost his life (which kind of makes him useless for later battles, I should have checked this before I chose him, doh!)

Anyway all the figures are Perry HWY metals. One of the standing nobles is a file down of one of the Agincourt leadership figures -- filing off all the raised heraldry on these figures is one of the worst things to have to do and it's almost impossible to remove all of it (hence the large obvious shield on his chest).

The banners are both home made, laser printed paper on foil, while the standard is straight out of the Perry plastics box -- probably the last time I use these as the stiff card they are printed on is impossible to bend --- I had a LBMS transfer I intended to use but ruined it as I forgot you needed to paint the white background -- always read the instructions Simon!

One thing I am enjoying is using a Macro lens and focus stacking software on some of these pictures -- you can really get a nice shot this way (of course a tripod is essential!).

Traditional Macro pictures give you that nice bokeh.

Whereas trying to get everything in focus by shooting from further away is next to impossible ...

The heraldry on Montagu's tabard is all hand painted -- the eagle eyed will spot the obvious error in both sleeves (they should be left and right handed front to back, i.e. mirror imaged rather than the same layout on both sides) but I'll let that slide for now ...

Anyway with everything nicely boxed up and another 35 points in the bank (three 28mm foot at 5 points each and two mounted at 10) it's back to the Chambers of Challenge for the next submission