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

[Captain Blood]

I'm disappointed, I was expecting to see some putty on those armatures by now.

Hmmm. I took a look, and those armatures aren't very good... Think what I really need are some properly proportioned wire armatures...

 

[Malamute]

Hmmm. I took a look, and those armatures aren't very good... Think what I really need are some properly proportioned wire armatures...

 

Best get yourself a paperclip then

[Dr DeAth]

Jolly Nice!

[Ray Earle]

Best get yourself a paperclip then

Fuse wire is the way to go. 

Nice painting as per usual Cap'n. 

[Mason]

Best get yourself a paperclip then

You may laugh, sir, but that is what I use.
It is a fine material, readily available from most desks in museums.
 

[Hu Rhu]

Absolutely gorgeous work Richard.  I love the "Sunne" chest badge.  Can't wait to see the next 4 painted up.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Gary and fellows.
Painting on the next four is underway, and I have 8 more figures in mind to build... 

Then I suppose I'll have to do some blasted longbowmen for this faction too.

When will it ever end... 

[Hu Rhu]

When will it ever end... 

Hopefully never. 

[vcina]

I'm going to throw my brushes and paints away now.  Those are fantastic figures.

[Axebreaker]

Outstanding work Captain!

Christopher

[Too Bo Coo]

All I can say is that I hope the Perry's are cutting you in on the action, whenever I see your work I want to buy a ton of their stuff and try and imitate your work!   Just stunning Mate!

[Captain Blood]

Thanks. They have given me a couple of free boxes before - these ones I bought though! 

[skip]

wow, amazing work, an inspiration for buying perry foot knights

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Skip 

As I have started a new faction (York!) I thought I'd need some billmen types to go with the foot knights.
I figure the Royal house would have better armed and equipped soldiers than the average. So I've hybridised components from the new Foot Knights box along with components from the various other boxes, to produce some tough-looking professional soldiers and thoroughly disreputable characters, to accompany their Lords and masters...

Think I've certainly succeeded with these first two. A right pair of villains... 



The figure on the left is a complete concoction of many parts stitched together. Literally, bit by bit, as far as the hand, arms and weapons are concerned.
The figure on the right uses the new standing foot knight body in livery coat. The arms are concocted from the Mercenaries and WOTR sets. The head is from the Sudanese Ansar box. I started to give him green stuff hair, but decided he looks like a tougher nut as a skinhead. Again, he reminds me of one of those forensic recreations of the faces of long-dead soldiers exhumed from the Towton grave pits...



These next two figures have helmets from the new set, although I've had to add a bit of green stuff to the helmet rim of the figure on the left. One of the things I notice in the Foot Knights box, is that one or two of the heads look a little undersized compared to most of the other heads in the range as a whole...



...whereas these next two figures have old, trusty heads from the original WOTR box. The left hand figure uses the bog-standard half-armoured infantry body but with one of the new pairs of arms from the Foot Knights set attached. The figure on the right, has a pair of bill arms attached to the crouching/lunging foot knight body in livery coat...



And finally...



The figure on the right is actually a straight build from the WOTR box.
The figure on the left is another hybrid - swinging long-poleaxe arms from the Foot Knights set, attached to one of the original infantry bodies. I've cut the leading foot and bent the rearmost leg back a little so it looks like he's stepping onto a green stuff rock in order to strike down with the killing blow...




Now I suppose I'd better build some more bloody longbowmen as well... 

[Silent Invader]

Tis a delight to behold