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

[Captain Blood]

I did actually get my copy in the mail, and I have to say (not just because I've got an article in there), it really is quite a good mag. I stopped buying WI a couple of years back, because I was finding there were only one or two articles in each magazine of any interest. In this edition of WS&S there are at least half a dozen really good pieces. Guy Bowers is doing a good job. Now I just need to persuade him never to rewrite and rearrange my perfectly formed copy... 

[janner]

PDF downloaded to iPad, tis the way ahead 

[Volleyfire!]

Picked up WSS yesterday and discovered an article in there with all your fine works of art Captain, wonderful stuff. I think WSS 's style of print and paper makes your photos look really nice and clear, I do wonder how well they would have come out in WI if they had published them instead? I have to agree with you about WI in some ways, there are months where unless you are a die hard FoW fan there is little of interest in it bar some token photos of shows and games apparently put in to give everyone else their monthly fix of wargames 'porn' .

[Silent Invader]

Got my copy too - great article.

As it happens I also picked up the last copy of WI as it had a lot of WotR content.

[OSHIROmodels]

Apologies for the continued de-railing (it won't happen again... Well, not today anyway) but I've found that the quality of the show coverage articles in WI has been on a downward spiral for a few years now with either silly distance shots or ridiculous close ups and not a lot in between 

Lovely figures Richard, do carry on 

cheers

James

[Atheling]

Apologies for the continued de-railing (it won't happen again... Well, not today anyway) but I've found that the quality of the show coverage articles in WI has been on a downward spiral for a few years now with either silly distance shots or ridiculous close ups and not a lot in between 

Lovely figures Richard, do carry on 

cheers

James

Sorry to join the OT party but I still buy it, It was worth the cover price alone for Barry Hilton's article.

How I guffawed..... still makes me chuckle now and i read it twice 

Darrell.

[Arlequín]

Sorry to join the OT party but I still buy it, It was worth the cover price alone for Barry Hilton's article.

How I guffawed..... still makes me chuckle now and i read it twice 

Darrell.

It was a good article... although his comment "A little misinformation is a dangerous thing in the hands of those who would use it for self-aggrandisement." was a bit too close to the bone for many 'historical' articles that appear in the wargaming press.

While I think asking people to reference their article is a bit much, a list of what they read to compose it should be obligatory. There's a vast difference between researching and writing an accurate article, and having a quick read of an Osprey or two and throwing out a few hundred words in return for £50.

When you read an article that you know is very inaccurate, you wonder how many you've read and absorbed on something you know little or nothing about, trusting that the author had got his facts right.



Anyhoo... loved the article in WSS by the Captain, just wished there was more of it.

[Hildred Castaigne]

It was a good article... although his comment "A little misinformation is a dangerous thing in the hands of those who would use it for self-aggrandisement." was a bit too close to the bone for many 'historical' articles that appear in the wargaming press.

While I think asking people to reference their article is a bit much, a list of what they read to compose it should be obligatory.

As any lecturer will tell you, not listing the sources is plagiarism. 

[Arlequín]

As any lecturer will tell you, not listing the sources is plagiarism. 

I'd settle for decent plagiarism, but re-writing someone else's mistakes as presenting them as your own mistakes is just lax. 

[Captain Blood]

Yes indeed. One of the banes of wargames magazines has always been godawful recycled history articles.
If I wanted to know about the story of the Danish Navy in the Schleswig-Holstein War, or some similarly obscure and narrow historical topic, I'd buy a flipping book on it.
What I don't want clogging up my wargames magazines, are 12 page articles where some idiot has gone off, read a couple of books, and then written a short, dumbed down history of 'topic X' pretending he's some kind of expert. Bloody awful.
The old WI used to suffer from this a lot. Less so, now it's mostly FOW... So that's something.


Anyway... Back on topic...

Well 15th Panzer’s wonderful posts this week have shamed me into action.
Seeing 60 WOTR horsemen en masse is spectacular. I decided the least I could do was finally complete the two boxes of Mounted Men at Arms I bought at Salute, to give me a paltry 24 (although I do also have 15 or so of the metal mounted WOTR figures painted).

You can see the previous 18 plastic figures in the thread somewhere above.

Number 19 has been done for some time, but he’s a ‘special’ for the front cover of a forthcoming edition of Wargames Soldiers & Strategy, so I have to keep him under wraps for a while… 

Meanwhile, here are numbers 20 – 24. Or the final five, as we Battlestar addicts like to say.

The first of these is a standard build from the box. Having complusively, chopped and fiddled with most of the others so far, I thought I ought to make up at least one model as the Perrys intended.
Here he is, a very parfait gothic knight in his German armour, lance erect (ooer) on his armoured charger.





Next up, an Italian mercenary knight. He wears a barbute from the Mercenaries box. Apart from that he’s a straight build. I’ve shaved the studs off his horse trappings though, and reinforced them with some liquid Green Stuff to make them stand a little prouder. Frankly I’m sick of painting those studs, so I’ve pretty much got rid of them for these last few models…





Next, a lord urging his troops to greater efforts. He wears an armet with finial from the WOTR command sprue. Everything else is from the Mounted MAA set. I’ve added feathers to the horse’s head wearing the chamfron. First time I’ve used these – they look quite nice I think. The horse wears the full Italian style barding.





Next, something a bit more creative. This knight uses the armet with visor raised from the WOTR command sprue, and the sword arm from the same source. The horse wears just the front peytrals from the Italian barding, and on its hind quarters, I’ve dispensed with the moulded-on trappings  altogether and used strip plasticard to make up some more flamboyant harness. Studs have been added with liquid Green Stuff, and a bit of filling proved necessary, as you can see.





Finally, number 24. Similar remodelling on the hind quarters and I’ve reinforced the studs on the front horse trappings, as the mouldings are in very shallow relief. The rider is a straight build from the MAA set, and a right haughty bastard. I can say no more.





I aim to get all these finished and painted over the autumn, along with various other stuff I need to get done. And that will be my Mounted Men At Arms done. Finally 

Then this thread can end 

[Malamute]

Terrific stuff, more loveliness to oggle at in the coming weeks.

[Bugsda]

Bloody hell Colonel! (I think you deserve a big promotion) These are superb, can't wait to see some pigment on them.

Can't you pull a sick week at work? There's a lot of colds going about, it's what I used to do when some important jobs needed doing 

[Silent Invader]

Top stuff 

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff Richard 

The use of the liquid greenstuff for the studs is something I never thought of. Do you have to build it up layer by layer or do it straight away (haven't actually bought any yet  ).

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

Couple of layers, James. It's quite thick. Like me