Hi All,
Like every other medieval fan around these parts I've decided to dabble with the Perry plastic sets. I bought 1 set of mercenaries, 1 set of bills and bows and 2 sprues of Agincourt archers. I'm working on some generic, a-little-bit-war-of-the-roses-a-little-bit-game-of-thrones type retinues.
Tip of the hat here to LAF's very own Captain Blood and Stuart from this excellent blog -
http://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/ (who I believe posts rounds these parts too). Although I;m not working on the same thing as either of them, their kitbashing really tipped me over the edge - enablers!
Being a pedant at heart, the first group I made were some pike and pavise armed mercenaries using the better armoured torsos and the brimmed helmets - I'll be expanding them as a force of foppish but well equipped and trained mercenaries.
But I've since bashed through the 12 agincourt archers I had and am very pleased! The clothing is slightly more generic medieval than the WotR stuff which is closer to some of the stuff I've imagined. I've also managed to entirely avoid arming them with bows (except for the 1 hornblower) which is a bit of an achievement.
These are all very much very WIP - I'm not to shoddy with the greenstuff, so scuse the gaps and missing bits; I'll sculpt the clothing and hood-neck things (what are they called?!) and add some upper sleeves (hence the slightly sloping shoulders at the moment). 'Scuse my pictures too, I'm not so hot at those.
This first group is 5 swordsmen, the captain/sheriff/baron that leads the group and the hornblower. There's a couple of heads from other sets that will need the necks tidying and the like. The bodies are fairly static so I've tried to get as much movement out of them as possible with head and arm positioning.
Then we have 3 spearmen. The flash has made it look like I've left mould lines, but I've scraped them off.... honest!
Then 3 crossbowmen - really pleased with them, the static bodies are better here.
This is the leader again - I think I might sculpt a big belly on him, I like the idea of him being out of shape from over indulgence. The pointing hand is from the zouave command frame (more on that in a future post). Yhe arms are from the mercenaries command sprue.
This is just one of the swordsmen, but I like the detail of him resting his hand on the hilt of his sword.
Hopefully I'll get some greenstuff and paint on these by next week. c&c welcome.