Swords, Lances And War Eternal - a 14th century PLog

[Atheling]

I like 

Those Matthew Bickley Claymore Sculps rock!! 

[FreakyFenton]

Top job! 

[Breazer]

thank you very much for the motivating comments.
The sculpts are wonderful indeed. It is a challenge to match the cavalry to the creative infantry miniatures.

[HappyChappy439]

Lovely work! Big fan of the Claymore/Antediluvian sculpts, even if it's a bit fiddly to get the polearms into their hands sometimes!

Keep up the great work! 

[Flinty]

Agghhh! I've been kidding myself I wouldn't buy any of these, but your thread is weakening my tissue paper resolve..

Cracking paint work, and whilst the colours may raise an eyebrow at the College of Arms, the execution is spot on, love that last red/yellow combo.

[bluewillow]

Lovely brush work

Cheers
Matt

[Breazer]

Thanks everyone!

Agghhh! I've been kidding myself I wouldn't buy any of these, but your thread is weakening my tissue paper resolve..

Cracking paint work, and whilst the colours may raise an eyebrow at the College of Arms, the execution is spot on, love that last red/yellow combo.

Thank you, thats a wonderful compliment! I am curious what kind of things I got wrong though. It is the sort of thing i dreaded like i described in the first post.

[Hu Rhu]

Really nice painting on those minis.    Don't fret the heraldry.  Go with whatever you like. 

[Breazer]

Thank you Hu Rhu and will do. I don't really know where to start looking if i were to do an accurate heraldic portrayal of a certain battle.

In the meantime I added 6 more guys to the unit I started this project with. I shuffled them around a bit. The idea now is to first finish the other units I have in my head. make all of them 12 miniatures in size and once those are done I'd like to expand all of them to 24 miniatures. perhaps add some pennants still to add some more panache to the unit as a whole. Lots of work left to go. Next up are some archers and some more cavalry.









Hope you like them.

[Ogrob]

They look great! Love the weathering on the shields.

[HappyChappy439]

They look great! Love the weathering on the shields.

Agreed, great work!

[El Grego]

Beautiful units Breazer - inspires me to get cracking with my own!!   

[Breazer]

Thank you very much!

[bluewillow]

Great looking unit!

Cheers
Matt

[Breazer]

The last couple days I spend building this unit. It came together rather organically as the knight leading the charge there was initially intended for a different unit (the one in the background). I started shuffling things around and started gathering other miniatures to aid the unitless knight.

I also started experimenting with new weapons (this has a lot to do with me not owning enough metal halberts) I took some plastic weapons from other kits and to make them match the halberts that come with the Claymore miniatures I took some metal rods and put the weapon heads on there instead. This seemed to work and I was happy that i could say I made it my own by tweaking small things to my liking.

After fitting it all together in one unit I am now very happy with it. The unit looks like a raging bunch of bloodthirsty warriors and at the same time (and I credit this entirely to the wonderful sculpts) it invites to take a closer look to see what is going on there.

Like I said I'm really happy with them and the more I work on this project the more I think about gaming with them after all. I think Lion Rampant is the way to go for them as I already own those rules and they are nice and straight forward. 12 then also seems like the perfect number per unit. The larger ones I will make sure you can split into two seperate units without too much trouble.

Also notice the red and yellow boys are getting some reinforcements.