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

[Volleyfire!]

You've even captured the correct posture used for jumping when out 'untin' as riders tend to ride 'long' i.e. they lengthen the stirrup leathers so they sit deeper in the saddle and thrust their legs out forwards and lean back when jumping at speed so that they don't get pitched forwards out of the saddle on landing or if the horse hits the hedge or fence as it jumps it. Modern fashion and showjumping has led to this style going out of favour with some, though the old school,and the wiser riders, still stick with it.
Fantastic model as others have already said.
How many are left to do, as this has to be one of the longest threads on this site surely and with legs to carry on going as long as you wish it to!?!
Excellent stuff!

[Dalauppror]

Lovely paint job at the "Jumper", looking greate!!! 

Must say that you are a real master in painting horses Richard !

Best regards Michael

[Captain Blood]

Thanks 

How many are left to do, as this has to be one of the longest threads on this site surely and with legs to carry on going as long as you wish it to!?!

Hmmm. Let me see... From 2 boxes (24 mounted men at arms) I've so far made up 14 mounted models and painted 8 of them. I'm just in the process of making a couple more (pics tomorrow, hopefully), and I've also made up several foot figures using bits from the new MMAA boxes. I plan to make up all 24, although I'll probably leave the last few for a while until fresh inspiration takes me, and concentrate on painting the ones I've made.
Truthfully, fun as they are, I already have a dozen metal mounted figures from the Perrys, and 30 - 40 cavalry are more than enough for my large scale skirmish games (since cavalry actually played a relatively small role in the Wars of the Roses - the majority of fighting was carried out on foot  )

Anyway, here's the next painted example...
This is the second cut-and-shut horse conversion - the walking one (the other halves of the leaping horse... )
I think it's turned out alright, although I must confess, I don't really like painting white or cream coloured horses - my painting technique for horses suits browns much better...

Roderick, Lord Foyle, of the manor of Crowhurst...

[CyberAlien312]

Wow. I love that figure, you painted it really well!!

[Figouze]

Congratz !
I like the details ont the horse (eyes) and the metal !

[Dalauppror]

 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I like that horse color a lot, Richard, outstanding combination with blue. What color did you use for the horse?

[Captain Blood]

I like that horse color a lot, Richard, outstanding combination with blue. What color did you use for the horse?

Thanks Alex.
The horse colour is:
Basecoat - the new GW 'Ushabti Bone' (ex-Bleached Bone, but possibly a little bit deeper) with a dash of Vallejo 'Dark Earth' in it to darken it down a bit.
The middle coast is Ushabti Bone.
Then increasing amounts of white added into the Ushabti Bone for the highlights...

[Mason]

 

Foe a colour you dont particular like painting, that is a fantastic job.
I wish I get results half as good as that with colours that I DO like!
Beautiful combination of colours, as the Prof suggests.
 

[oxiana]

These are just simply gorgeous piece of work Richard. The Perrys should be paying you to take their stuff, not the other way around! 

[Blue in vt]

Yeah he looks smashing!  The only thing I'm not
Sure about is his position in the base... In the first pic he looks a little far forward to me... But that is a very minor complaint... Everything else is perfect!

Cheers,

Blue

[Yankeepedlar01]

Richard, I'm really enjoying your work on these, as on your other projects. Now, if anyone could reconcile me to plastic figures I think it might be you...
David

[Blue in vt]

Richard, I'm really enjoying your work on these, as on your other projects. Now, if anyone could reconcile me to plastic figures I think it might be you...
David

Haha too true...as a die hard metal fan it's saying something that I have looked at these box sets a couple of times on various web shops since Capt. Started this thread.

Just amazing!

Blue

[Captain Blood]

Richard, I'm really enjoying your work on these, as on your other projects. Now, if anyone could reconcile me to plastic figures I think it might be you...
David

Aaaaah - thanks David 
I know how much you dislike plastics as a point of principal and practicality! All I can say is that the figures are very beautiful. If they could make them to this quality in metal - I'd buy 'em in metal. But once they're stuck on metal bases laden with groundwork, the weight or heft is really not that different to a metal figure.

The only thing I'm not sure about is his position in the base... In the first pic he looks a little far forward to me...

Thanks Blue. You're right. He is a little far forward on the base - but not as much as he appears to be in the photos! 

[Rochie]

  I've been a bit tied up with my daughter being born on the 24th, so this is the first time I've been back to this thread in a while, and I've had plenty to drool over since my last visit! My first box finally arrived from Maelstrom games, but of course sods law came into full effect as they arrived two days before the little one did! Still, it's something to look forward to, eh?
Anyway, fantastic work as usual mate, and loads of inspiration for mine!