Charlie's 15th century - Exciting photoshoot! (Aug 21)

[HappyChappy439]

Great work! And thanks for showing off the compatibility between the Perry and SF ranges!

Silly question but how'd you do the plumes for your two liveried Men-At-Arms? Lately I've just been cannibalising feathers from the Perry Swiss heads

[Hu Rhu]

Fantastic conversion work and some great painting as usual. Nice mix up of the two ranges, especially using the horses, which gives much greater range of poses. 

[Atheling]

Top drawer Charlie 

Are the plumes from the Steel Fist plume pack and/or the Swiss Front Ranker pack/s?

[DintheDin]

Most of your works remind oil paintings, so well done!  Many congrats!

[painterman]

Hi
Really love the variations that you've got with the mounted figures - they look spot on and always good to have create some unique figures in units.
Very impressive armies coming along.
Cheers, Simon

[bluewillow]

Loving the cavalry! Some great standards there

Cheers
Matt

[Charlie_]

Silly question but how'd you do the plumes for your two liveried Men-At-Arms? Lately I've just been cannibalising feathers from the Perry Swiss heads

Are the plumes from the Steel Fist plume pack and/or the Swiss Front Ranker pack/s?

The plumes on the two French men at arms are from LAF's very own painterman, who I believe had them cast up for his Burgundians several years back. I don't know if he's got any left, though you're welcome to ask him!

Note that the big feathers on the German horseman are not separate, the head being from the SF Swiss front rankers.

[Atheling]

The plumes on the two French men at arms are from LAF's very own painterman, who I believe had them cast up for his Burgundians several years back. I don't know if he's got any left, though you're welcome to ask him!

Note that the big feathers on the German horseman are not separate, the head being from the SF Swiss front rankers.

Thanks Charlie. I'll ask Simon today

[GamesPoet]

Enjoyed reviewing this entire thread.  The early posts are outstanding, and then with the figures transforming for the Burgundian War of Succession is excellent.  I look forward to seeing more.

[Wiegraf]

These are great. I'm looking to do some late 15th century Armies that are just "mercenary" in nature after my ww2 project, and this is great inspiration. Thanks for sharing!

[Hunlion]

Hi Charlie,

So I would like to ask have you fixed on a base size for your units.  10 or 12 figures to an Infantry unit? Mounted 8 or 10 or even 12 to a unit. Light cavalry?

Thanks in advance.

Hunlion

[Breazer]

Awesome stuff Charlie. Really looking forward to the massive additions you will add this time!

[Charlie_]

Hi Charlie,

So I would like to ask have you fixed on a base size for your units.  10 or 12 figures to an Infantry unit? Mounted 8 or 10 or even 12 to a unit. Light cavalry?

Thanks in advance.

Hunlion

Do you mean units or bases? The units are much bigger than you mentioned, my cavalry units are 16, 18 or 20 strong. All based individually but using my own custom-designed unit trays.
Light cavalry are based 2 on a 50x100mm base, usually 10 (5 bases) in a unit. I'll have a finished unit of light cavalry to show you in a few weeks hopefully.
I don't have any set unit sizes, my rules allow any size units, from small to very large - roughly in multiples of 5. 1 'unit strength' points for every 5 infantry, or 2 for every 5 cavalry. So 40 infantry or 20 cavalry is unit strength 8. The 16 and 18 strong cavalry I mentioned are rounded up from 15 or 17.5 (i.e. unit strength 6 and unit strength 7).
This current cavalry phase should be wrapped up this summer - I'd like to say in a few weeks, but more likely a month or so. Then I will showcase all the finished/rearranged French and Burgundian cavalry units. Then it will be giving horses a break for a while, and time to start some French infantry!

[Hunlion]

Thanks, Charlie for the information.  I will be following your further adventures with your projects with great interest. Keep us all posted, please.

HunLion

[Ray Rivers]

It's been ages since I commented on this thread, but not from lack of interest.

It's just wonderful to see such a beautiful collection of miniatures. I love your cavalry. Painting all that infantry is... scary!  And the flags just pop really nice. 

I think you are going to need a bigger table though...