My 1420s project - update 15/05/18: Burgundian MAA

[Mark]

Hi all,

I have finally taken some photos of my current HYW project. Thanks again to everyone who has weighed in with advice when I have asked for it over the last few months!

My blog now has some photos of what I have fully completed. More to come once I have based and added banners to another half a dozen stands.

Blog can be viewed at https://fantasticplastic28s.wordpress.com/2018/04/28/english-men-at-arms-and-archers/

There are also a couple of other sorry posts on project planning for anyone interested!

Neither my brushwork nor photography skills are near the highest standard, but hopefully they won't break any mirrors...

[Siegfried]

Looks great, Mark! Can't wait to see what else you've got in store for us! 

[Mark]

New post up with the first bases of French crossbowmen, freshly based this weekend. More photos on the blog, with a bit of blurb.

As ever, apologies for the standard of photography...

[painterman]

Great start; interesting period with last of the English victories and start of the French ones. Once the Perry’s plastic HYW amounted knights are out you can do Patay!
Simon

[Mark]

Great start; interesting period with last of the English victories and start of the French ones. Once the Perry’s plastic HYW amounted knights are out you can do Patay!
Simon

And Bauge, La Brossoniere and Verneuil!

Thanks, it is a fascinating period. My intent is to get forces up and running for Cravant (where it seems everyone considerately fought on foot!) before expanding the infantry for Verneuil. Hopefully I can do this before the mounted men at arms arrive!

One thing I have found interesting is that despite the seeming vogue for fighting "English style" on foot in this period, Cravant is the only example I have found where there are no mounted contingents at all...

[painterman]

Yes. Cravant is different as it occurs when English seek to break a siege and undertake the risky river crossing, which appears to have suprised the franco Scots army.

[Mark]

Another update today - the first base of French men at arms. Featuring some big names in Xaintrailles, Aumale and La Hire! Three more bases assembled, waiting for the rain to stop so they can go outside for an undercoat...

More pictures available on the blog https://fantasticplastic28s.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/first-french-men-at-arms/

[Hu Rhu]

Very nice painting indeed. I can't paint heraldry for toffee so it is always good to see some examples of how it is done so that I can attempt it.

[Mark]

Very nice painting indeed. I can't paint heraldry for toffee so it is always good to see some examples of how it is done so that I can attempt it.

Thanks - I am not a master by any means. My top tip - after painting the colours of the field, put down the paintbrush and invest in some gel pens of the appropriate colours! I find it much easier to draw a design rather than paint it.

[Hu Rhu]

Thanks for the tip. Do the gel pen colours actually stick to acrylic paint?

[Mark]

I haven't had a problem with It, but you have to be careful not to smudge after application. You need to ensure the paint is completely dry - a couple of archers almost ended up with pink crosses of st George!

[Mark]

Hi all,

Latest update are my first bases for the Army of Scotland - 2 bases of spearmen in Douglas and Stewart colours.

On my mobile so tricky to attach photos, but plenty on the blog:

 https://fantasticplastic28s.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/the-army-of-scotland-part-1/

[Mark]

Hi all,

Backlog of basing and photography now finished, with a base of Burgundian men at arms.

Currently I have three more bases of French men at arms on the workbench, before I need to get to work on the rest of the Scots for Cravant.

Extra not-great photos on the blog:

https://fantasticplastic28s.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/burgundian-men-at-arms/