Stoke Field 1487

[Askellad]

Nice work on perrys! Clap clap

[Gangleri]

Gangleri,

I've followed your project for ages its excellent and still gets better. Your kitbash Irish were an inspiration for me to try my hand at some gallowglass with GMhttp://28mmtowton.blogspot.com/2018/06/scottish-mercanaries-wip.html.

Nearly done and I'll post on the forum when they are. Im halfway through making Lord Dacre's fateful and possibly apocryphal pause for a drink a Towton, but I fear your Germans surpass my efforts. Keep up the good work.

Stuart

Stuart, thanks for your kind words.  Your conversions are very clever as well.  The French HYW set is quite versatile, and as various projects have shown the Ansar kit is a wonderful source of parts.  The finished Scots I saw on your blog are great, and I hope you will post some of your work on LAF for everyone to enjoy.

[Spooktalker]

Excellent work on these. Your forces must look splendid arrayed for battle at this point. 

[Gangleri]

Hello, all.  Another long break, but I am still working at this project.

This the command stand for Lambert Simnel.


He is surveying the events of the battle, with a Burgundian bodyguard provided by the Dowarger Duchess Margaret pointing out the developments.  In the back, Richard Symonds, the spider at the center of the whole web of 1487, stands with his eyes downcast in false humility.


For a long time I struggled to decide how to represent Simnel, but months ago Arlequin suggested I use a 15-20mm knight to show the boy in armor.  It took a while longer to find a decent and suitable knight.  This one is from Irregular Miniatures' fantasy range - Men of Splendour, I think it's called.  I cut off the head and sculpted my own, which was very difficult.  I've only done faces a few times, and none at that size, and the features are not very sharp.


The standard is that of the young Earl of Warwick, son of George of Clarence, as whom Simnel was passed off.  Warwick was actually still alive at the time and was paraded around London at Henry VII's orders; he would remain in captivity until the next big pretender, Perkin Warbeck, got both himself and Warwick sentenced to death after a bungled escape attempt from the Tower in 1499.

Hope you like.  I should have some Englishmen up soon as well.

[Captain Blood]

It's a very neat idea, but I wonder if perhaps Lambert looks a bit too small? He was about 11 years old IIRC.