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

[Cubs]

Echo the love about the metal tone; it brings to life a well-oiled and polished suit of armour without looking too garish.

On that subject, someone once suggested I paint a WoTR model purely in chrome-effect NMM. I told them to perform an indecent act of themself.

[Captain Blood]

Hmmm. Don't blame you.
I really don't get the whole NMM thing - bit of a painterly affectation beloved of the CMON tendency as far as I'm concerned...
I like my armour properly shiny!  

[Cubs]

I really don't get the whole NMM thing

I like it in the right circumstances, but I rarely, if ever, go for the super-polished chrome effect. I like to go a little more subtlely, so that people don't really know if it's NMM or not, they just think it looks like normal metal (like on those Vikings).

[Captain Blood]

Yep - the vikings looked great 

[NurgleHH]

I think it would be nice, as a kind of "halftime-report", to see all your stuff in one picture. Or do you come with it to the BLAM^TM?

[Captain Blood]

Yes, it will all be at BLAM for one of the Sunday games, Dirk - so perhaps you'll play if there's time before you have to head back to the airport

[FramFramson]

I like my armour properly shiny! 

Hear hear! Though sometimes "properly" only means pure silver on the highlights.

[Damas]

Up to your usual excellent standard (bastard!)

What he said! 

[Mason]

Nice work, Captain!

Be careful though, all this blue armour business could lead you astray.
You may well be painting Chaos Warriors next, at this rate.
 

[painterman]

Love that blue'd armour Richard - was going to try a blue glaze over my usual armour colours, but now will have to get me some of that paint!
Simon.

[NurgleHH]

Yes, it will all be at BLAM for one of the Sunday games, Dirk - so perhaps you'll play if there's time before you have to head back to the airport

I think we can see all the stuff on sunday. For gaming the time is quiet short...

[Captain Blood]

Next Scots merc...

[Dr Mathias]

Next Scots merc...

I really like that guy. Dressed up, feather in his cap, but he looks the business.

[Andym]

Great work alround Capt, but those Scottish guys are the best!

[Captain Blood]

Not that you're biased Andrew 

I have several more Scots to come. I actually like this colour scheme best of all the ones I've done (shamelessly borrowed from the Ibelin livery in 'Kingdom of Heaven')


Meanwhile...

Here's the start of the promised new mercenary company - barbaric Balkan Mercenaries!

Don't ask me where they come from... Bosniaks, Wallachians, Moldovans, Kosovars... An entirely fanciful bunch from the outermost fringes of Christendom.
Strictly non-historical, since I don't think there's any evidence for East European mercenaries fighting in the Wars of the Roses.

And if they did, they probably looked nothing like this... 

I am indebted to Arkoudaki for kindly supplying a selection of heads from the Perry Sudanese Ansar and Zouave boxes. Both of which serve very well for a kind of non-specific East European exoticness... Thanks Rob.

The big shields are from the Foundry (Copplestone-sculpted) El Dorado Adventurers.
The small shields are Foundry Pathan bucklers with an extra central stud made from Green Stuff.
The fur capes are added with Green Stuff. First time I've used the proper epoxy stuff, and it took a long while to go off. But think it's now hard enough to give it a light dusting of undercoat...

These three are made using Nile Arab heads. The Polish style cap is built up over a skull cap using Green Stuff. Moustaches, tassels etc all GS.






And these three are made using Zouave heads. No real titivating necessary.





I'm looking forward to getting these under the paintbrush!
(I'm seeing greens, golds, and a spalsh of crimson...  )