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Title: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: James Morris on December 25, 2020, 07:09:26 PM
I used to play a lot of Wars of the Roses using Armati, but sold off all my figures 12 years ago and swore I was going to give it up!

But then...Perry plastics... Never Mind The Billhooks... my gaming buddies painting up Perry minis... Captain Blood’s 142 page thread of WOTR goodness... the forthcoming Worldwarroses event...

So I cracked and painted up a dozen figures to get me restarted.  These are a quick paint job using mostly GW Contrast paints with some highlights.
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR
Post by: Charlie_ on December 25, 2020, 08:40:37 PM
They look great!
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Post by: Grumpy Gnome on December 25, 2020, 08:41:23 PM
Great work!
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Post by: levied troop on December 26, 2020, 08:18:05 AM
For a ‘quick job’ they look excellent. The contrast paints are proving interesting.
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Post by: Ragnar on December 26, 2020, 08:49:46 AM
Welcome back to the fold.  Excellent start, James.
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Post by: Rick F on December 26, 2020, 09:50:15 AM
They look great, I'm considering getting some of these paints to get through a few of those armies just sat in a box.
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Post by: Atheling on December 26, 2020, 12:10:42 PM
They look great, I'm considering getting some of these paints to get through a few of those armies just sat in a box.

My worry is that it would take too long for me to paint them up and that it would break my (probably insane but working) "Rule of three"!  :o
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR
Post by: Rick F on December 26, 2020, 01:56:16 PM
My worry is that it would take too long for me to paint them up and that it would break my (probably insane but working) "Rule of three"!  :o
I have similar concerns, but if i were to paint them all "properly" I'd need to discover the fountain of youth first lol
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Post by: Atheling on December 26, 2020, 05:10:44 PM
I have similar concerns, but if i were to paint them all "properly" I'd need to discover the fountain of youth first lol

Yet it seems to be an inevitability!  lol
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Post by: James Morris on December 26, 2020, 06:44:40 PM
Rule of 3?  Is that no more than three projects at once?

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Post by: aphillathehun on December 26, 2020, 07:22:46 PM

very nice!  a few hundred more figures and you'll have one side done  ;)
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Post by: Captain Blood on December 26, 2020, 07:27:41 PM
For a ‘quick job’ they look excellent. The contrast paints are proving interesting.

Agreed.
Well done James. Suckered in...  ;) lol
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Post by: Atheling on December 26, 2020, 07:57:02 PM
Rule of 3?  Is that no more than three projects at once?

Yeah, it has worked really well for me since getting back into the swing of things, my output has never been higher..... possibly until now  lol
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Post by: HappyChappy439 on December 26, 2020, 09:38:50 PM
Great start to the project! Thanks for sharing!  :D
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Post by: WuZhuiQiu on December 26, 2020, 11:42:57 PM
Great work! Apart from the occasional mould line, the sculpts and colours are such that they could almost pass for real troops.
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Post by: James Morris on January 16, 2021, 07:56:10 PM
Got my second unit and a couple of commanders finished off last night. I decided to do a pair of command stands, one each for Lancastrian (Sir Nicholas Latimer) and Yorkist (Sir Roger Vaughan).  With both having a red livery, they should be swappable with the troops.

Background is a download from Jon Hodgson’s Patreon page; flags are Freezywater.
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Post by: Atheling on January 16, 2021, 08:49:42 PM
Lovely work James  :-*
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Post by: Captain Blood on January 16, 2021, 08:51:51 PM
Corking. Very bold  8)
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Post by: RR on January 16, 2021, 11:00:45 PM
Great work. I love the idea of swapping commander's in that way. What rules are you going to use?
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Post by: tomrommel1 on January 18, 2021, 07:50:15 AM
nice restart and the use of Contrast Colors seems to work quite well.
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Post by: James Morris on January 18, 2021, 10:37:05 PM
Great work. I love the idea of swapping commander's in that way. What rules are you going to use?

Thank you!  Rules...not sure yet...probably Never Mind The Billhooks, Lion Rampant or my own homebrew rules. 
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Post by: Atheling on January 19, 2021, 09:10:03 AM
Thank you!  Rules...not sure yet...probably Never Mind The Billhooks, Lion Rampant or my own homebrew rules.

Jon Hodgson, the age of Arthur illustrator right? It's taken me a while to put two and two together  o_o
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Post by: Atheling on January 19, 2021, 09:11:12 AM
EDIT: Double post. The gremlins are out and about again. :)
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Post by: James Morris on January 19, 2021, 07:44:13 PM
Jon Hodgson, the age of Arthur illustrator right? It's taken me a while to put two and two together  o_o

Yes, that’s him, now runs his own company called Handiwork Games.
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Post by: Atheling on January 19, 2021, 08:45:57 PM
Yes, that’s him, now runs his own company called Handiwork Games.

I need to check that out then. For some reason I didn't make the connection when I've noticed you mention his background paintings before.
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - Foot knights page 3
Post by: James Morris on January 31, 2021, 04:03:03 PM
On with the show... channelling the spirit of Towton, and the snow that hit the UK last week, here's my first foot knights unit.  Faced with wall-to-wall plate armour, I dug out a can of Humbrol silver spray for an undercoat, then gave them all a wash of thinned down GW Contrast Black Templar (I like the blue undertones of this one) before highlighting with acrylic silver.  I was having slight pangs of nostalgia for the old Perry WOTR Citadel figures while painting these, but the plastics are a pretty fine substitute.
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: Captain Blood on January 31, 2021, 09:11:32 PM
Nicely done James. Damn but they are shiny!  8)
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Post by: Charlie_ on January 31, 2021, 09:27:39 PM
Very nice work - your armour technique has worked really well!

Good assembly of poses too. Often I see this foot knight kit assembled a bit too 'randomly', but each one of these looks good!
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: James Morris on January 31, 2021, 09:37:57 PM
Nicely done James. Damn but they are shiny!  8)

Cheers, Richard.  That silver spray saved their squires a lot of polishing!  (These didn't get the usual spray of Testors Dullcote).
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: James Morris on January 31, 2021, 09:39:30 PM
Very nice work - your armour technique has worked really well!

Good assembly of poses too. Often I see this foot knight kit assembled a bit too 'randomly', but each one of these looks good!

Thank you!  I found it took longer to put together than the other kits - needed a bit of care and attention with the poses and checking the fit of arms.  It's probably because of the greater number of two-handed weapons in two pieces.
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Post by: Atheling on February 01, 2021, 03:25:49 PM
Excellent stuff James  :-*- the armours look great  8)

When it comes to Late Med armours it's always been a little bit of a dilemma; to varnish or not to varnish? I usually opt for matting down but it does take the shine off the armours.

Yours look superb :)
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Post by: Bloggard on February 02, 2021, 05:25:17 PM
fantastic painting and photos.
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Post by: Galloping Major on February 03, 2021, 11:52:56 AM
Great project James - I really like that armour painting technique  8)
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: James Morris on February 03, 2021, 09:17:35 PM
Thank you very much for the kind comments.  I was inspired with the silver spray by some folks on the Billhooks Facebook group and it came out far better than I was predicting.
PS Darrell, sorry to shock you, but I never varnish armour.  I find that metallic paints are much less likely to chip than matt surfaces and varnish around them. Is that weird? It works for me.
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: Atheling on February 04, 2021, 02:06:00 PM
Darrell, sorry to shock you, but I never varnish armour.  I find that metallic paints are much less likely to chip than matt surfaces and varnish around them. Is that weird? It works for me.

Not weird at all matey :) It's something that I should try. As soon as I can get the MIG Ultra Matt brush on varnish for the clothing etc I'll give some armours a go in the same manner as you have done so successfully. With the MIG, I think it's just s matter of getting the consistency right- hopefully anyway :)
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: emosbur on February 04, 2021, 09:27:41 PM
Nice work. What size are your bases?
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Post by: bluewillow on February 05, 2021, 05:20:51 PM
Excellent brushwork James

Cheers
Matt
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: James Morris on February 05, 2021, 10:59:05 PM
Nice work. What size are your bases?

Cheers. Each figure is on a 20x25mm base, with twos on 40x25 and threes on 60x25.  I like the extra depth and it means I can do configurations for most games.
Title: Re: The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2
Post by: emosbur on February 06, 2021, 09:05:54 PM
Thanks James.