Morning, afternoon & evening all
One of my AHPC goals this year was to paint some horseflesh and thankfully I've managed to do his in the past week. In the next few weeks I hope to knock off a few more units for my Italian wars project
First up though, more Welsh, this time some archers. Finishing these meant that I had painted all of my Welsh figures from Footsore. That sounds great, but as we all know no army is really ever finished and thus some more unpainted figures arrived in the post this week. I see myself using these in skirmish type Lion Rampant/ Baron's war games against Normans and Saxons I think. I figured these should be painted in muted colours
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| Footsore Miniatures later Medieval Welsh |
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| Not running away, just going to the woods to cut more sticks for arrows |
The bulk of the army was painted during the challenge, but here is the complete force (not faction!) including the cavalry, all but four of which were painted up before the challenge
Next up more Perry Plastics, again from the Light cavalry 1450 - 1500 box but this time made up as mounted longbowmen
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| This box allows so much versatility |
I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with these but I think I'll definitely use them for 100YW Welsh bowmen, so I set out to paint them in the green of Cheshire but at a push I wonder if I can get away with using them as Mounted Italian Longbowmen for the early Italian Wars
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| As you can see I didn't quite press hard enough when gluing the horse halves together! |
Finally my third unit - some heavies for the Italian wars
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Casting Room Miniatures
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Now these are proper heavy cavalry, they really do have some serious heft, I don't think I've ever come across figures that weigh as much as this!
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The poses are limited but turn out ok
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On the website they are listed as Gendarmes but I figure they aren't flashy or dandy enough to be French Gendarmes so have kept the painting simple with horse armour mainly in metal and no Barber pole lances. This will also make it easier to distinguish them from the French on the table
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| A Perry miniature s flag depicting an Imperialist unit |
These were surprisingly quick to paint given the simplicity of the paint job so perhaps I'll manage a few more before the end of the challenge.
Regrettably no time to get bonus figures painted up this week, maybe next week
In summary
12 x 28mm Welsh foot archers @ 5 points = 60 points
12 x 28mm Mounted Longbowmen @ 10 points = 120 points
12 x 28mm Heavy cavalry @ 10 points = 120 points
Total 300 points
(Millsy check my maths please if I make another mistake I'll never live it down!)
2 Squirrels
Thanks or looking, see you next week I hope
From Millsy: Another absolutely wonderful submission Kerry, which is only improved by the quality of your table and photography. I really like your choice of colours for the horse furniture and barding which I'm often tempted to scoot over myself. Your math looks good to me so that's another 300 points for your total mate. Smashing brushwork!
