Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted

[Captain Blood]

Well they look like they would fit perfectly for late medieval Spanish, don't they? 
Those Aragonese helmets are lovely. Very shapely and sinister. Shame the Perrys didn't include one in the Mercenaries box, but I guess they had so many styles to choose from, and these are rather specific to Iberia...



Anyway...

I've managed to build another mounted crossbowman...
I have also figured out the rather obvious way round the shortage of livery-coated bodies in the MMAA set...
So for this figure, I have sliced off the 'riding legs' from one of the knightly bodies and grafted them onto a torso chopped off one of the standard infantry bodies (the one with the open coat worn over a breastplate).
A pair of crossbow arms and accessories, plus one of the spiral-fluted kettle-hatted heads from the Mercs box, and we have another villainous Milanese soldier of fortune, ready to dispense death from horseback...







The infantry bodies are noticeably deeper in the chest and torso generally then the rider bodies, and the skirts of the coat stick out a bit further back and front.
So I also had to do a little minor surgery on the horse, slicing off the rear saddle back, and replacing it with a new one - cut from the bottom of a pavise and reshaped slightly 
I think it works okay...

[janner]

The infantry bodies are noticeably deeper in the chest and torso generally then the rider bodies,

That's the norm for an infantryman over a donkey walloper - you may also find the rider's are weaker (or at least limper) around the wrist

Nice conversions - seems like you have quite a band of no-good coming along there...

[Silent Invader]

He's my favourite (so far...... Am expecting more goodness to come  ;-). )

[Arlequín]

That is excellent... is there no end to the options from a few boxes of figures? 

[Dr Mathias]

That is excellent... is there no end to the options from a few boxes of figures? 

I think the three Perry medieval box sets are the current pinnacle of plastic miniatures- which the Captain is clearly displaying. He's the best advertising Perrys could hope for!

[Captain Blood]

Thanks.

By the way, see this helmet...



...I reckon I can take one of these spiral-fluted kettle-hatted heads from the Mercs box (as on the figure above), pair it with the bevor from one of the enclosed sallets on the WOTR command sprue, add a bit of molten sprue to raise the crown to a point, and create a miniature wearing one of those... 

Well, there's my next challenge sorted out... 

[commissarmoody]

Well, there's my next challenge sorted out... 

Pics or it didnt happen 

[Dr Mathias]

Well, there's my next challenge sorted out... 

Might as well cast a few up in resin at that point

[commissarmoody]

Agreed! Resin heads for all!

[Steel fist]

Exellent work I'm really enjoying this thread! I have been working on a figure with one of those Spanish helmets btw you should see him soonish...been meaning to do one for ages

[dodge]

And the loveliness continues although I had to go back three pages to find out where I had left off  as so much had happened 

looking forward to more as always

dodge

[Kingscarbine]

Might as well cast a few up in resin at that point

I need to make copies of various items for conversions. Does anyone know were to find reusable moulds in Europe? Something like this:
http://amazingmoldputty.com/
http://compositherm.com/

@Captain Blood, lovely conversions BTW.

[Steve F]

I need to make copies of various items for conversions. Does anyone know were to find reusable moulds in Europe?

I'm using this:
http://www.metalclay.co.uk/oyumaru-instant-mold-moulding-compound/

[Captain Blood]

Pics or it didnt happen 

Hmmm... Unfortunately, it might not happen, or at least for a while, since having checked the sprue-mountain, that was the last one of those heads I had... 

I shall need to order another Mercs command sprue or two from the Perrys... 

[Kingscarbine]

  Where did you get the shields?

BTW, the only complete XV C. Portuguese armour is in the Toledo Cathedral. Here is a recent reproduction: http://www.ageofarmour.com/instock/italian-export-armour.html

A great iconographic source for late XV C. Portuguese armies are the Pastrana Tapestries (Google "Tapeçarias, Tapestry, Pastrana").