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Author Topic: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms (now with crossbows!)  (Read 7906 times)

Offline Patrice

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #30 on: October 17, 2016, 07:14:31 PM »
Astonishing! :o :-*

Offline wrgmr1

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2016, 08:20:13 PM »
Superb work Simon!!

Offline TadPortly

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #32 on: November 03, 2016, 08:13:13 PM »
According to Tobias Capwell black armour was far more common than we now think.  It was the mirror polished armour that was far rarer - polishing took more man hours than fabricating the armour and thus was very expensive - hence  the 1472 painting of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino by Piero della Francesca which depicts the Duke in what we would consider relatively plain and lacking décor these days.  I would add that this is also very difficult to maintain blemish/rust free (personal experience of owning and wearing my own armour - many many hours of re-polishing)

Black from furnace, painted or fabric covered was far more common as research into extant items at the Wallace Collection suggests.  It was the Victorians that developed the "knight in shining armour" image which stays with us today.  That said, I will continue to paint my 28mm medieval armies with polished as it looks right and I would add that Simon's painting in this field is well researched, a joy to see and inspirational.

Grant

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #33 on: November 18, 2016, 12:12:56 PM »
Now with added impetus...supporting rank of coustillers added.
Thanks for all the kind words.
Simon

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #34 on: November 18, 2016, 12:25:49 PM »
Phwoarrrr  :-* :-* :-*
(Even more phwoarrr than to start with!)

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #35 on: November 18, 2016, 12:53:10 PM »
Wow - magnificent :-*

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #36 on: November 18, 2016, 05:27:58 PM »
Beautiful painting and love the flags.

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #37 on: November 18, 2016, 08:11:45 PM »
Absolutely brilliant  :-*

Offline Globlin

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #38 on: November 18, 2016, 09:13:58 PM »
Impressive! The combined unit looks great.
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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #39 on: November 21, 2016, 03:28:44 PM »
just stunning :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #40 on: November 21, 2016, 03:39:13 PM »
Lovely job Simon  :-* :-* :-*

cheers

James
cheers

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Offline Steel fist

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #41 on: November 21, 2016, 06:16:27 PM »
It's a fantastic unit Simon great to see that amount of work go into them

Offline painterman

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms
« Reply #42 on: November 28, 2016, 05:42:28 PM »
Some Burgundian Ordonnance crossbows and hangunners to serve the Bastard (mostly Perry plastics).
Simon.

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My, these pictures copied from Imgur are huge!!

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms (now with crossbows!)
« Reply #43 on: November 28, 2016, 06:53:40 PM »
Lovely  :)

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Re: Anthony of Burgundy - Men at Arms (now with crossbows!)
« Reply #44 on: November 28, 2016, 08:21:15 PM »
Ooh! They are nice. Lovely painting and posing. It's amazing how much variety is available from the Perry WoTR kits.

 

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