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Joan and a Trick Cup

Well after languishing in the doldrums for a while I decided to attempt some painting this evening. Not a huge amount, but at least something. I am finding I don’t have the energy or head space when I get back home so I have been on the console faffing about on Ark, and I mean faffing. I had so many plans to do or make things but really cannot be bothered.

So here are the metal trio.

Jean D’Arc will be in her white armour with blue trappings on the horse. I will have to find out the heraldic colours onbthe other two. I will rephrase that… I want to find out the heraldic colours. To be honest I could have painted them green  (seems to be the random colour of choice with the plastics).

As for my trick cup… one of my kids put it in the microwave….

Might just keep it for guests I don’t like 😉.

I will see if I manage any painting tomorrow.

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A Bit More Painting

This evening I decided to do another half dozen cavalry. Ended up finishing them all off. For some reason known only to myself I chose another shade of green. I have 48 paints right in front of me, plus about another 30 nearby and I choose bloody green!

Ah well, here they are…

So we have half a dozen heavies and half a dozen mounted archers.

I will try to get a bit more done on the plastics tomorrow. Might even make a start on the trio of metallics.

On the home front I undertook a twenty minute job of putting up a wall cupboard that shockingly took twenty minutes to do! That has to actually be a first. I actually knew where everything to do the job was too.

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It is Alive….

Alive I tell you!

So yes, I am back… trying to get a handle on the hobby side of things. I am ten days into the new job and boy has it been a bit of a roller coaster of a ride so far. I have really not felt in the mood to even look at a model let alone pick one up.

But tonight I managed to slap some paint on a few more horses….

As I have mentioned before, green is generally not seen as a heraldic colour before the 16th Century. It did exist, but wasn’t common. Some of the above hadn’t got the memo!

Hopefully I can do another half dozen tomorrow evening.

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Painting the White

I decided I needed to get my backside onto gear even though I couldn’t be bothered. I am choosing random knights and painting the horse tack with the colour I had on the pallette.

I decided to pack in when I totally messed up the red bridle in the middle. For some reason the red just went everywhere. Eighteen more to go and lots of colours to choose from. These will be quite colourful (and shiny)

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Final Manes and Tails

Well my new job started yesterday and I needed to get some painting done this evening too. So I decided on the remaining horses. Not many but enough to get all the long flowing bits done on the plastic horses.

Next up will be repainting some of the bridles etc white. Well, on ones that are going to be brighter colours.

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French Knights

This evening my son and I started off our film binge with ‘The Longest Day’. Whilst doing so I made a start on the French knights.

I did a clean up on the metal ones and as I suspected the centre one (La Hire) lost his sword. Well it was 90 degrees to the pommel, so no surprises there. Luckily I had an awful lot of spare arms knocking aound. He now has a plastic replacement.

I also got some paint slapped on some of the horses.

Not a lot, but it is a start.

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My Claymore Haul

Well as promised here is what I purchased whilst off gallivanting.

So left to right:

A couple of Victrix Roman Legionary sets (one advancing, the other attacking). These will be used against my celtic types. Yes I know, they should probably be late republican, but hey, this was my first reenactment period so I am biased.

Middle top four 1p movement trays that cost me 20p a shot. Some Game Forge spray paint to try out and some mdf casualty markers.

Top right- some Perry metals. The only mounted Hundred Years War command pack that was left (well that I could see anyway). This one has Jean D’Arc, La Hire and the B*stard of Orleans (Jean de Dunois). These really need a good clean up.

An ox cart suitable for the Romans and below that a 6-8mm ruined city block set. I have decided to get out my 6mm road wars stuff and try to get it all finished.

Part of me wishes I had picked up a set of Roman Auxiliaries, but these came in separate cavalry, spear armed and bow armed sets. It would have helped to have had smaller pack sizes. I could have got a Pack of light field artillery too. If I had have got the above then the Romans would have outnumbered the barbarians.

As I mentioned in Saturday’s post. I really could have spent a whole lot more money.

Tomorrow my Wife and two eldest head off on their trip. My son and I are going to binge watch as many war films as we can… starting with one of these: ‘The Guns of Navarrone’, ‘The Longest Day’, ‘The Battle of Britain’ or ‘Zulu’. Starting with the classics.

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Final six Knights

Well the final six were built about twenty minutes ago. The six remaining heavies were armed with hand weapons. Well five were, the sixth is a banner bearer.

Now to be honest I am in a bit of a quandary, do I bother with the sword scabbard and visors or not…

Something to ponder before undercoating them all.

All twenty four of them…

I have been doing bits and pieces on my druid bust too.

The leaves have taken on a more autumnal hue than the previous iteration.

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More French Knights

Should that be ‘plus de chevaliers français’? Anyway I made another six heavies this evening.

I am going to armour all of these horses with mail or plate armour. This will set them apart from the other lance wielding troops.

It will also allow them to mix in with others as they are all heavies. I will also look to add some visors in both raised and lowered positions.

Tomorrow I will hopefully complete the last half dozen. I won’t get much more than get them undercoated as I am heading South either my son to visit Claymore Wargames Show in Edinburgh.

We get the Ferry down on Thursday evening, spend Friday night in a hotel and then drive over to the show on Saturday morning, Hotel Saturday night then back up the road for the ferry on Sunday.

He wants to visit a GW shop as well as a Bird of Prey Centre whilst we are off gallivanting.

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Chevauchée or Bust

So my light mounted archers are ready to head off into enemy territory. The Chevauchée was a raid to spread destruction, pillage and generally cause a problem for the enemy population. The raiding force would be designed to demoralise as well as steal as much as they could.

Civilian infrastructure and the general population were the target of the Chevauchée.  I am going to see what small farm animals I can find to hang from the saddles as well as sacks etc.

I also finished off one of my sci fi wasteland dudes as well as worked a bit more on the druid bust.