From RobertT: 28mm Wars of the Roses 20 figures (104 points)

Perry plastics have a lot to answer for!  I think I had my first bash at making and painting their Wars of the Roses figures when they first came out.  Inspiration and dread combined in equal measure.  I have been gradually reducing my pile of plastic with various degrees of success.  AndrewG's Northampton Project provided the inspiration for another attempt.  I am having a go at painting the livery for the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Oxford.  The attempts are not shown here!  One day I will get to Andrew's level.

In the mean time here are some of their well willers / henchmen.  I live a couple of miles away from the village of Paston in Norfolk and have some individually based figures for the various fights Sir John Paston and his wife got themselves into.  His retinue of 10 figures shown with the yellow / white banner is probably the maximum he could afford.  His livery of Yellow and White is interesting as it breaks the most basic rule of heraldry that there should only be one "metal", gold / yellow or silver / white but not both.

The Duke of Norfolk wanted some of the properties that Sir John had "inherited" from Sir John Falstaff so he sent his knights to get them.  In this case I have chosen Sir Thomas Waldegrave with his red / white livery.  I have tried to give the knights brighter steel armour than the rank and file but I am not sure that my photography will pick this out.

The flags are from Freezywater 25mm scale but perfect for 28mm.

They are based on 3mm MDF from Warbases as I find that easier to pick up with 60mm frontage and 50mm deep.  The basing material is a huge bag of crushed coral I got when I was 16 (over 40 years ago now) to do some Wake Island games with my Airfix Marines vs Japanese.  This coral is stuck down with a mixture of brown paint, matt medium and water.  Matt medium works as well as PVA but doesn't shrink or warp. Then grass is stuck on.

The standard bearers are using pike arms from the Perry mercenary set and I had to trim down the pole.  I have just spotted that the spear point on Sir John Paston's flag is not straight.  I am not going to re-do it though.

I am still working on my photography and there is still too much shadow.  Hopefully next year it will be better. 

The grand idea is to be able to play with Never Mind the Billhooks or something like that.  The number of figures on a base doesn't actually matter in my mind as casualties can be counted next to the unit.

By my reckoning that is 20 blokes at 5 points each = 100 points. 

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Sylvain: You beautifully combine history and painting in your post. Your recipe for making bases will also come handy to many challengers, I'm sure. I'm going to add an extra 4 points for the flags. Génial!