If you've been looking at the current Lead Painters League, 13, you'll have seen that I'm back onto Wars of the Roses, rounding out my Yorkist forces...
First up, I've added some artillery...
I painted and shot all these with the LPL in mind, but ended up only using two of the three pictures, because I decided to stick some newly painted Zulus in instead
The organ gun or ribauldequin, together with one of the small field guns are from Old Glory - surprisingly good pieces, although I removed the dragon fire spouting from the mouths of the bronze figureheads on the organ gun, and also swapped out the solid wheels for spoked wheels.
Still nicer is the other field piece which is the ex-Grenadier (now Mirliton?) 'human' artillery piece, plus crew members. Given that these Copplestone sculpts must now be the best part of 30 years old, they have stood the test of time unbelievably well. I was lucky to pick them up a few months ago after an enquiry here on the forum. They do not seem to be readily available any more (at least not in the UK) - even from those vendors carrying parts of the old Grenadier fantasy range.
All the rest of the artillery crew figures and standard bearers, gun captains etc are Perry metals, including one or two slight conversions.
The flags are printed cloth-paper from the excellent Pete's Flags (with a little bit of retouching with the paintbrush here and there).
Here's the whole WOTR mobile artillery park so far, with Burgundian, Yorkist and Savoyard crews...
Plus the bombard of course...