Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.157 Another company of men at arms

[Captain Blood]

Congratulations!
(On the arrival of your new duaghter - not your plastic mounted men-at-arms  )

Enjoy! (Both  )

[Captain Blood]

Well, yesterday I managed to conceive and assemble several new builds 

First up is Count Otto Von Spargel, Hanseatic mercenary Kommandant! Jimbibbly kindly sent me some left over GW Empire accessories. Most of the weapons are too outsized to look real, but one or two of the heads are really too good not to use... Otto wears all the latest German-style harness, with his Sallet slung from his belt...







Next, a charging knight, extending his reach with the lance to spike. I'm not massively keen on the little flag on his bonce, as I think these are rather distinctively Burgundian, and I'm not doing Burgundians, but what the hell... He is (shock horror) in all respects a standard build straight from the MMAA box, with the exception of his sword from the WOTR command frame.







And thirdly, another man at arms. Again largely built from the MMAA box, although using one of the poleaxe arms from the WOTR command frame. I appreciate of course, that the poleaxe was the knightly weapon of choice for combat on foot and not used from horseback. But then, given the propensity for the gentry to saddle up and race off after their fleeing foes in the aftermath of a battle, I see no reason why a few would not still be clutching their poleaxes as they mount up and exhort their comrades to join the pursuit... I doubt there was always a squire standing by with a lance ready

On the horse, I've also shaved off the cruciform trappings over the rump - just to provide a bit of variety in appearance really. A generous slathering of poly cement smooths and covers any last vestiges...







That's 17 of my 24 figures built now 
I'm going to slow down a bit on building, keep my powder dry on the remaining figures and concentrate on painting the completed builds over the next few weeks...

[CyberAlien312]

They look great again!  Keep doing those!

[Axebreaker]

The entire thread just real wonderful stuff Captain!!

Christopher

[NurgleHH]

Richard, you are my Middle-Age-Painter-Hero. And agein, it is Middle-Age. I won't ask you, if you do other things. This is thing you are doing is so great. Your horse with this pink part in the face, I never saw such a realistic detail.

[Arlequín]

Still very much agog here! 

That guy without his bevor is just asking for trouble imo though! 

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Fantastic work.  I have already built 2 boxes of each Perry WOTR set and now I want to buy more just to try to reproduce your ideas.
Mick

[Captain Blood]

Cheers Mick. I'm an admirer of your stuff on my occasional visits to TMP.
Please feel free to nick whatever ideas you like from this thread

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Thanks - you are too kind.

I wil post some of my own conversions in a week or so.  
I am making "temporary" command sets for the Swiss.  
I need some officers, 20 flag bearers and 3 war horn blowers.
They will get replaced / added too when the Perry's launch their official versions.
Mick

[Faber]

Woa! 
Impressive amount of splendid conversions and paintjobs. I really like the Count's head posture: really fits my idea of a haughty and vicious mercenary commander. Great model! There's plenty of these lovely conversion details in this project...a real source of inspiration. Thanks for sharing and keep going Captain!

ps: Count Von Spargel's head is my favourite one in that GW Greatsword sprue. Happy to see you use some of those bits, they are really cool, probably the highest quality in the gw empire range. 

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking work Richard and I'm glad to see some of those bits getting some use 

I would imagine that a poleaxe, however unwieldy, would be a terror to behold from horse back! That's certainly something you would never get up from 

cheers

James

[janner]

True James, and whilst getting a decent swing to use the axe head might be difficult, it'll still work as an impromptu spear/lance

[dodge]

Wow great stuff , your painting on the last two is just fantastic, and you painted the teeth on the last guy 

great builds, once you have painted the rest I hope inspiration comes back quick 

dodge

[Steve F]

I would imagine that a poleaxe, however unwieldy, would be a terror to behold from horse back! That's certainly something you would never get up from 

Perhaps swing it underhand, like a polo hammer?  They don't like it up 'em, you know ...

[Gibby]

Magnificent! I barely have the patience to clean up mould lines and assemble them in standard ways, let alone to go to town on chopping and converting into such wonderful poses. I take my big, phallic medieval hat off to you!