Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted

[NurgleHH]

Nonsense. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."!

I think wrong time, Peder. But, WotR with machine-guns. Hmm, let me think about it...

[Hammers]

I think wrong time, Peder. But, WotR with machine-guns. Hmm, let me think about it...

Yes  the wrong time, but by no more than a few decades. Those were the words, the St Crispin's Day speech, which the Immortal Bard laid in the mouth of Henry V at Agincourt. 

[NurgleHH]

Yes  the wrong time, but by no more than a few decades. Those were the words, the St Crispin's Day speech, which the Immortal Bard laid in the mouth of Henry V at Agincourt. 

I think Hardcore-Followers of the Plantagenets would nearly storm the Capitol, I think. York and Lancester or not the main line of platagenet, only the simple sideway of it... 

[Atheling]

I think Hardcore-Followers of the Plantagenets would nearly storm the Capitol, I think. York and Lancester or not the main line of platagenet, only the simple sideway of it... 

Maybe they were just a Minor Threat? 

[NurgleHH]

Maybe they were just a Minor Threat? 

Or the black sheep’s of a big family 

[Atheling]

Or the black sheep’s of a big family 

  I was afraid that no one was going to get that 

[John Amend All]

Apologies for thread resurrection, but joined the forum to note my appreciation for this topic - it has inspired my own feeble efforts towards WOTR. Hopefully the good Captain will entertain us again with some more 15th century stuff when he emerges from his current works (WW2?)

[Captain Blood]

Haha. Thank you. Yes, it’s the project that keeps on giving. I think I do have some more bits and pieces to share that I haven’t put on here, but I have indeed been distracted by ECW and WW2 rather a lot over the last year or two 

[Ray Rivers]

You know between you and Giles, you could put together one hell'va demonstration game at pretty much any convention you choose.

It would be an incredibly large logistical problem, but I think it could be very rewarding.

[Eric the Shed]

Mind you, after Giles’s thousand or so WOTR figures arrayed on the tabletop, mine are going to look a little threadbare 

I have added to the collection since 

[Captain Blood]

Well, after a significant ECW imposed break from this neverending project (which I see to my horror I started 10 fecking years ago!) I'm back in the room!

The imminent release of Mr Callan's marvellous 'Never Mind The Billhooks - Deluxe' edition, (in which I'm honoured to have contributed a few pages on painting and modelling figures and ephemera for the period), has prompted me to revisit some of my understrength WOTR factions, with a view of adding enough figures here and there to bring everything up to strength for Billhooks. Which is a splendid set of rules by the way.

(In 'Billhooks', foot companies are comprised of 12 figures - or six for skirmishers - and mounted squadrons are 8 strong. Because I assembled the collection shown in this thread over 10 years, and in all sorts of itty-bitty bijou factions - 7, 8, 9, or 10 figures strong - I've had to do a fair bit of repainting or new painting in order to bring units up to strength. I started doing this a year or so ago, but then got sidetracked by endless painting of those rather good Bloody Miniatures. Can't think why )

Anyway, I'm back on it, and aim to show a few completed / replenished units for NMTBH here over the next few days, as I finish them off. (Just in time for the release of Billux Dillux next week with any luck )

First off the production line are a couple of new Tudor men-at-arms plus a new mounted Henry Tudor in person.

Every time I pick up the Perry medieval plastics after a break of a several months (or longer) and start putting a few together, I rediscover and remember what an unalloyed pleasure and joy they are to work with. Not only to assemble in creative ways, but to paint. And how far superior they are in every way to every other historical plastic manufacturer out there.

Anyway, this now gives me a mounted Henry (obviously at Bosworth just after he's plucked the hollow crown from the clammy dead brow of Richard III) as well as a Henry on Foot. So I can choose to have him fighting in the line with his closest adherents, or galloping around the field on his gallant steed...







By also slightly repainting a couple of other (metal) men-at-arms, this now gives me a 12-figure unit of Tudor men-at-arms, thusly...

[Atheling]

Excellent brushwork Richard 

That green is more than a little vibrant! 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Darrell. I am standing by for the usual arrow storm of 'they didn't have dyes that bright' comments

But they jolly well stand out on the tabletop I can tell you 

[commissarmoody]

Just let me get my shades. 
Wow they look great. 

[Wilgut Spleens]

Give you joy of your Renaissance! Billhooks brings out the best in all of us it seems!