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Author Topic: Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted  (Read 589329 times)

Offline painterman

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Nice work Richard (as usual)!
With the peytral from the new box set, I've done variations by removing the two globular pieces on either side and just left the central one and also removing all of them and using it as a plain leather version.
They're easy to remove - slow chop with clippers and then a steady sanding down with sanding stick - avoid using too much pressure so that don't snap, as they're pretty thin.
I'm at basing stage so will pop some pics on here soon.
Cheers, Simon.


Offline Captain Blood

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Thanks Simon. Good tip. I shall try that, and must remember I can paint the Peytral as leather rather than plate...  :)

Offline Silent Invader

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The project rides again!

I particularly like the standing horse cut and shut. Excellent.
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nice additions
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Offline painterman

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Ooh - those plumes are VERY fragile once attached to helmets.
I’ve broken one twice when basing up...don’t think  it’ll survive the first game! ☹️
Shame as they look great.
Simon

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Ooh - those plumes are VERY fragile once attached to helmets.
I’ve broken one twice when basing up...don’t think  it’ll survive the first game! ☹️
Shame as they look great.
Simon

Would a drop of superglue (while still intact, rather than waiting for it to break) give the joint some additional strength?

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It is always good to see your stuff, Richard. But this special project is made with heartblood - like we germans say. Hope to see more, I always have these smile when I see your " song of plastic and poly cement"...
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Offline Captain Blood

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I like the sound of that Dirk  :)
What is the saying in German? Something about Herzblut I guess?

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Commented for updates on the marvelous figures and conversions!  :D
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I like the sound of that Dirk  :)
What is the saying in German? Something about Herzblut I guess?
Right Richard, Herzblut is right.

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I foresee a whole lot of eye candy from this thread.

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Re: Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.115! The project lives again!!!
« Reply #1736 on: December 05, 2019, 11:04:20 AM »
If you've been looking at the current Lead Painters League, 13, you'll have seen that I'm back onto Wars of the Roses, rounding out my Yorkist forces...

First up, I've added some artillery...
I painted and shot all these with the LPL in mind, but ended up only using two of the three pictures, because I decided to stick some newly painted Zulus in instead :D

The organ gun or ribauldequin, together with one of the small field guns are from Old Glory - surprisingly good pieces, although I removed the dragon fire spouting from the mouths of the bronze figureheads on the organ gun, and also swapped out the solid wheels for spoked wheels.
Still nicer is the other field piece which is the ex-Grenadier (now Mirliton?) 'human' artillery piece, plus crew members. Given that these Copplestone sculpts must now be the best part of 30 years old, they have stood the test of time unbelievably well. I was lucky to pick them up a few months ago after an enquiry here on the forum. They do not seem to be readily available any more (at least not in the UK) - even from those vendors carrying parts of the old Grenadier fantasy range.

All the rest of the artillery crew figures and standard bearers, gun captains etc are Perry metals, including one or two slight conversions.

The flags are printed cloth-paper from the excellent Pete's Flags (with a little bit of retouching with the paintbrush here and there).





















Here's the whole WOTR mobile artillery park so far, with Burgundian, Yorkist and Savoyard crews...



Plus the bombard of course...




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BOOOOM!!!

Bit gamey though having so many guns  lol
cheers

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Offline Dr. Zombie

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As always they look great.

If I should make one minor nag. The crewmen could use a bit of a dirtying up. I know from personal experience that operating such guns is very dirty work. You end up with soot everywhere.

 

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