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.
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.
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.
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.
This time I am talking about posh dudes on horses. Yes my two boxes of mounted Agincourt knights arrived today. So after spraying the big mech knight I did a quick build of half a dozen heavies, as opposed to lights. My plan is for three heavy units and one light.
The one in the rear middle definitely has something odd going on with his visor. This came as a separate piece and maybe I have glued it on in the wrong spot, either that or I accidently moved it before the glue set it in place.
One thing I haven’t noticed with the Perry plastics is a lot of flash (apologies for the naff pic). All of the human sprues had some flash where tye plastic has squeezed between the two faces of the moulds.
Top left and bottom right are really obvious here. On the other spue the torso top right had a huge fan from the top of his helmet to the lower back.
I shall hopefully carry on with these tomorrow.
Well okay there are technically three forces and some interlopers!
So on the left we have the Hundred Years War English and on the left the Hundred Years War French. Both boxes have Wars of the Roses cavalry, heavy in the left and light in the right. The English box also has Aragorn leading a detachment of rangers…
Sadly I didn’t have time to flock everything this evening.
We will be playing Lion Rampant tomorrow.
While I was looking for this lot I came across my original dwarf from Heroquest… I had even painted him, sadly forgot the base though!
Next to him is an original goblin I think. I am sure the Advanced Heroquest had a shield.
Well that is the eighteen infantry and six cavalry painted. It was a bit of a rush job, but I got there this evening. As I said yesterday, they won’t win any prizes, but they are done apart from the bases. I will get those done tomorrow.
So here they are with the paint still wet…
I am just hoping that the ones in the shed that I think are done are actually finished. I will find out tomorrow.
I would have done it this evening, but I am knackered and really cannot be bothered.
I will add them all together and see what they look like. I know the crossbow men are in a specific livery, I think I have some liveried spears too.
Well I eventually got started on the pile of plastic for Saturday. Six mounts and six infantry finished.
My son worked hard on the mounted gendarme on the right too.
So that leaves me with twelve foot and six cavalrymen to do.
Will mine win any prizes- nope but they are getting done and that is all I want.
I have actually got some Agincourt mounted knights in a shopping cart somewhere, I just have to remember which site I was on!
Well Friday is here again and there are more troops that haven’t seen the light of day for who knows how long…
These are some of my troops for my Lion Rampant army. I know the shield was pretty much gone by Agincourt but I reckon these chaps found some and put them to good use. These Perry boxes are really good value as there was enough in the box for a whole army (only some are shown here). I also ordered some French, these however never got finished…
My idea was to mix and match and get a bit of flexibility… sadly Perry’s plastics didn’t have the necessary plastic cavalry so I had to use 15th century mounted troops. The good news is that I recently heard that they are coming out sometime in the not too distant future.
Finally for tonight. My Bidowers for both Dragon and Lion Rampant.
I found these GW minis fitted quite nicely (a bit larger) with the historical troops.
Next week I will see what else I can find in the boxes in the cupboard….
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