Author Topic: Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted (Read 593990 times)

Bugsda · « **Reply #525 on:** June 22, 2012, 01:49:27 AM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on June 20, 2012, 07:41:40 PM

It's really dead simple.

Excellent, that's just how I like it, cheers Richard

**GS** · « **Reply #526 on:** June 22, 2012, 11:51:10 AM »

I don't know if I mentioned it before: You just made me begin another project with your outstanding works on these men at arms.
All of them are amazing.

I ordered three Perry Boxes and a Warlord Games Battalia Box, so there will be plenty of work to do for me.

thanks for sharing

GS

Captain Blood · « **Reply #527 on:** June 23, 2012, 12:28:44 PM »

Thanks. Glad you like them

Quote from: Arlequín on June 20, 2012, 08:43:28 PM

I saw what you did there... very smooth.

- I did know about russetting before, honest

I actually own a set of russetted wrought iron garden furniture - all very artisan and hand made. It is precisely this dark brown iron colour. You have to rub it down periodically as it rusts, leave the loose powdered rust sitting on the surface, and slap on a load of oil / chemical concoction which seals the whole lot and leaves it looking shiny and only subliminally rusty! It's a great finish, but it needs redoing at least once a year.

Now I know no soldier worth his salt lets his equipment get dirty (which is why I always paint my armour nice and shiny). And I'm sure artillerymen - even medieval artillerymen - did their best to keep their iron rust free as they dragged their primitive cannon through bogs and snow...

The difference is of course, that we have Hammerite and 101 chemical and oil based aids, paints, unguents and solutions, which they simply didn't have access to. Therefore I think it likelier that things got a lot more rusty a lot more quickly in the C15th than the C21st...
Anyway, that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it

By the way, this is awesome

Quote from: Mister Rab on June 20, 2012, 01:25:08 PM

I'm the chap who's just fired her (dark blue and red hat, dark blue doublet, goatee). It was fantastic and loud

The gun you're firing there Mister Rab, gives me some hope that my pair of little Foundry conquistadores cannon may not be quite so far-fetched after all... It isn't dissimilar.

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #528 on:** June 23, 2012, 02:23:21 PM »

I always like the public sticking their fingers in their ears when shit like this happens

Our regiment did some night firing last year and the photos looked rather good (slightly off topic but interesting none the less).

Just a thought Richard, but how about a light drybrush of silver over the top of the rusting to show a bit of usage wear?

cheers

James

Captain Blood · « **Reply #529 on:** June 23, 2012, 03:03:14 PM »

I might well do that James...

I'm painting a mixed batch of gun crew and Mounted men at arms at the moment.
Will come back to the guns later. Need to decide whether to base them or not. I don't normally base guns - or haven't done for other periods... But I'm toying with doing mini-diorama bases for these... Possibly using Bibbly Patent Holes for the gun crews...

janner · « **Reply #530 on:** June 23, 2012, 03:33:15 PM »

Quote from: jimbibbly on June 23, 2012, 02:23:21 PM

Just a thought Richard, but how about a light drybrush of silver over the top of the rusting to show a bit of usage wear?

Good call, especially on the edges of the wheels

Arlequín · « **Reply #531 on:** June 23, 2012, 04:56:57 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on June 23, 2012, 12:28:44 PM

Now I know no soldier worth his salt lets his equipment get dirty (which is why I always paint my armour nice and shiny). And I'm sure artillerymen - even medieval artillerymen - did their best to keep their iron rust free as they dragged their primitive cannon through bogs and snow...

The difference is of course, that we have Hammerite and 101 chemical and oil based aids, paints, unguents and solutions, which they simply didn't have access to. Therefore I think it likelier that things got a lot more rusty a lot more quickly in the C15th than the C21st...

They had their pages, servants, valets/varlets, whatever, regularly roll their armour, mail and what have you, in barrels of coarse sand... something that was featured in Game of Thrones in one episode, which quite impressed me...

Mister Rab · « **Reply #532 on:** June 24, 2012, 03:00:05 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on June 23, 2012, 12:28:44 PM

The gun you're firing there Mister Rab, gives me some hope that my pair of little Foundry conquistadores cannon may not be quite so far-fetched after all... It isn't dissimilar.

Not far-fetched at all; the group who made that little beauty (I think they call her 'Isabelle'

) used details from a late C15th piece that saw action in the War of the Roses to get their dimensions and so forth.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #533 on:** June 29, 2012, 03:58:35 PM »

Finally I succeeded in carving away enough of a Fireforge caparisoned horse body, to make it work (just about) with a Perry MMAA rider and horse's head...
I had to rebuild the saddle too, using both ends of a pavise...

This elderly knight in his antiquated great bascinet, is proud to display the arms of the Tenchleys of Staffhurst on his equally old-school horsecloths... He is perhaps, Sir Robert Tenchley's disreputable uncle, Sir Gilbert - a veteran of the French wars, where as a younger man he fought in England's now lost territories of Gascony and Normandy... Back in the day when his war-gear was the height of fashion...