From Kerry T (Valleyboy) - Project P - P is for Pious (70 points + squirrel)

Before I begin I must say how impressed I am by what I have seen posted here on the forum, there is such a superb and varied range of figures and the place is simply oozing painting talent. Its hard to keep up with it all but its certainly a real impetus and an incentive for me to keep stirring my lumpy Vallejo!

That said it leaves me to confess that it's always a problem when you promise to do something isn't it - this is because one is meant to keep their promises.

For this my second entry under my Project P (12 units with a link to the letter P). I've knocked off P for Peasant in my first post so my second offering is Pious

So here we go

I don't suppose you're going to let me get away with showing my wife's cooking are you? 

I thought I would choose something from Footsore Miniatures Barons War range this time. I love this range having signed up for the most recent Kick-starter.I'm regretting having not backed the first one and as a consequence I have almost caught up and bought much of what was previously produced and available. These lovely figures are sculpted by Paul Hicks.

Pilgrims on the road- the white cloaked figures are from the Templars pack

Here we have the Bishop of York 

The Bishop is accompanied by the Priest of St Oswald

The picture above shows both the mounted and foot version of the Priest of St Oswald, I have no idea why I have two foot figures though.

Ideally I would have liked to have added additional clergy to this band but unfortunately I had already slapped a little paint on both the Stephen Langton and Peter de Roche (Bishop of Winchester) figures before the challenge started and had not bought the Aymeric de St Maur figure and  Milities Christi Monks as I thought I had. Never mind, I'll just have to buy more, though its a shame that there is only one pack of Templars. To date I have just been buying figures as I fancied from the range but I think I'll now look to build a specific Pious retinue in the longer term. I'm sure these could be supplemented by a few outlaws and peasant levy from the range top make a decent force

It will be nice not to have to paint so much white next time, I've already started on some cavalry for my third entry which has been a nice change.

By my calculations I presume this is worth (10 x 5 plus 2 x 10) for 70 points. I'm not sure how the squirrel works but I assume its another 

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Lovely work Kerry (and moreso to your wife with that delicious looking strawberry pie). The Bishop is excellent and that dismounted St. Oswald is rather formidable with his big club and shield. Also, great work on the white tabards of the Templars - it can often be such a grind to get right. Of course, this is all helped along by the marvellous sculpts by Paul Hicks - the guy is a genius (and amazingly prolific!).

Well done Kerry. Now, go enjoy a slice of that pie for us. :)

- Curt