From DaveS - Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of War (55pts)

I've now finished my final unit for the French Hundred Years War army for Basic Impetus.  This consisted of the mounted Men at Arms.  These are again made from the Perry Plastics, but using the less armoured horses and riders, in order to try and differentiate between them and the Nobles.

With these, I also experimented with making banners.  I debated several methods, before finally going with kitchen foil.

I glued 2 layers of the foil togehter, before undercoating it, and then painting the banner.  This was then cut out, before wrapping around the pole and gluing together.  They were then "crinkled" to give them some life and shaded.  Each banner is thus made of 4 layers of the "extra strong" foil.  They seem like they will be durable enough for the job.

Above is the final army.  Currently only the cavalry have banners, but there are figures amongst the spearmen who would be suitable for banners, should I decide that I want to add them in the future.  The whole lot is going to have magnetic sheet attached to the base, so that it can be fixed to magnetic sheets on the bottom of a Really Useful Box.

The new models today give me another 5x28mm Cavalry, for another 50 points.

Congratulations on finishing this army! It looks spectacularly intimidating and represents great effort in knocking it over in just a few weeks.

I've heard of using lead sheet or wine bottle labels for banners back in the day, but your quad-thickness banner looks really good. Have +5 bonus banner points!

Barks