The slippery slope of WOTR - foot knights pg 2

[James Morris]

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.

[Atheling]

Lovely work James 

[Captain Blood]

Corking. Very bold 

[RR]

Great work. I love the idea of swapping commander's in that way. What rules are you going to use?

[tomrommel1]

nice restart and the use of Contrast Colors seems to work quite well.

[James Morris]

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. 

[Atheling]

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 

[Atheling]

EDIT: Double post. The gremlins are out and about again.

[James Morris]

Jon Hodgson, the age of Arthur illustrator right? It's taken me a while to put two and two together 

Yes, that’s him, now runs his own company called Handiwork Games.

[Atheling]

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.

[James Morris]

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.

[Captain Blood]

Nicely done James. Damn but they are shiny! 

[Charlie_]

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!

[James Morris]

Nicely done James. Damn but they are shiny! 

Cheers, Richard.  That silver spray saved their squires a lot of polishing!  (These didn't get the usual spray of Testors Dullcote).

[James Morris]

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.