Author Topic: Captain Blood's Perry Mounted Men at Arms. P.156 Scots pike block painted (Read 593723 times)

moiterei_1984 · « **Reply #1590 on:** July 19, 2015, 07:44:01 PM »

Really outstanding painting Captain! Your choice of colour is great as always.

cram · « **Reply #1591 on:** July 19, 2015, 08:06:48 PM »

Beautiful!!!

Some of the nicest painting I've seen. Love the bases too. The scenery is also first rate, are the trees Woodland Scenics?

janner · « **Reply #1592 on:** July 20, 2015, 05:55:28 AM »

Lovely work, Richard

Helen · « **Reply #1593 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:21:11 AM »

Lovely brushwork Richard on your latest archers.

All the best,

Helen

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1594 on:** July 20, 2015, 10:28:52 AM »

Thanks all.

Quote from: KorNat on July 19, 2015, 01:44:41 PM

This is one of the most inspiring historical threads I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing that.

Very nice of you to say so - thank you

Quote from: NurgleHH on June 03, 2015, 07:59:20 PM

Richard, these last pictures are great. Not so shiny and look more like having your figures in your real hands. New camera???

Yes, I have been using a new camera, Dirk. But I think it might be more to do with the lighting and exposure.

Will be a while now before more gets added to this thread. Has to take a bit of a back seat for a while I'm afraid. But there will be more in due course!

Charlie_ · « **Reply #1595 on:** July 24, 2015, 01:29:48 PM »

I've just made an account here just so I can comment on this thread.

I've recently decided to move back into wargaming after giving it up a long time ago, and have decided to go for a 15th century collection which I can use for either historical and Game Of Thrones purposes. I've been aware of Perry Miniatures for a while, but have just discovered the full range of plastic medieval kits they now do, and after looking through every page of this thread, I am convinced that they will be all I need!

I'm planning to get one of each six kits - all five war of the roses ones, and the agincourt kit too, and mix them all together. Your conversions suggest that this is going to be fun...

I'm also delighted by the price. £20 each? So one of each kits will get me a small army for £120! Add a few more, and that's a solid army for £200! Coming from someone used to Games Workshop prices back in the day, and having seen the ridiculous heights they have reached in recent years, this seems incredible!

So to Captain Blood, thank you very much, and the Perrys should be very grateful to you as well, you are doing some excellent advertising for them!

Also, a question - Will the Agincourt kit mix in well with the War of the Roses ones? I'm not going for complete historical accuracy here, and mixing the Agincourt heads throughout the whole army should work for poorer knights with out of date armour I'm thinking. They are the same scale, I take it?

archiduque · « **Reply #1596 on:** July 24, 2015, 04:02:00 PM »

Fantastic work!!!

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1597 on:** July 24, 2015, 04:27:43 PM »

Quote from: archiduque on July 24, 2015, 04:02:00 PM

Fantastic work!!!

Thanks Rafa.

Quote from: Charlie_ on July 24, 2015, 01:29:48 PM

I've just made an account here just so I can comment on this thread.

I've recently decided to move back into wargaming after giving it up a long time ago, and have decided to go for a 15th century collection which I can use for either historical and Game Of Thrones purposes. I've been aware of Perry Miniatures for a while, but have just discovered the full range of plastic medieval kits they now do, and after looking through every page of this thread, I am convinced that they will be all I need!

I'm planning to get one of each six kits - all five war of the roses ones, and the agincourt kit too, and mix them all together. Your conversions suggest that this is going to be fun...

I'm also delighted by the price. £20 each? So one of each kits will get me a small army for £120! Add a few more, and that's a solid army for £200! Coming from someone used to Games Workshop prices back in the day, and having seen the ridiculous heights they have reached in recent years, this seems incredible!

So to Captain Blood, thank you very much, and the Perrys should be very grateful to you as well, you are doing some excellent advertising for them!

Also, a question - Will the Agincourt kit mix in well with the War of the Roses ones? I'm not going for complete historical accuracy here, and mixing the Agincourt heads throughout the whole army should work for poorer knights with out of date armour I'm thinking. They are the same scale, I take it?

Well, thank you very much for that. Very kind

And welcome to Lead Adventure.

Yes, parts from the Perry WoTR and Agincourt-Orleans figures can be intermixed well. You should be able to see a few amongst the later conversions in this thread. The Agincourt figures are a whisker taller and the head to neck joint is slightly different, but nothing that can't be fixed with a sharp knife and a tiny bit of filling with liquid poly cement and a few tiny shavings of plastic sprue. (Although note that the A-O foot knights heads are moulded on, so would need cutting off).

If you haven't already, you might also find something useful in my Game of Thrones thread... http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=62778.0

There are lots of other very nice Game of Thrones build threads knocking about in both the Fantasy and Medieval Adventure boards, by the way. Worth hunting down for inspiration...

My favourite is HVM's Mormont thread... http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=41342.0

Charlie_ · « **Reply #1598 on:** July 24, 2015, 04:46:07 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on July 24, 2015, 04:27:43 PM

Yes, parts from the Perry WoTR and Agincourt-Orleans figures can be intermixed well. You should be able to see a few amongst the later conversions in this thread. The Agincourt figures are a whisker taller and the head to neck joint is slightly different, but nothing that can't be fixed with a sharp knife and a tiny bit of filling with liquid poly cement and a few tiny shavings of plastic sprue. (Although note that the A-O foot knights heads are moulded on, so would need cutting off).

If you haven't already, you might also find something useful in my Game of Thrones thread... http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=62778.0

There are lots of other very nice Game of Thrones build threads knocking about in both the Fantasy and Medieval Adventure boards, by the way. Worth hunting down for inspiration...

My favourite is HVM's Mormont thread... http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=41342.0

Ahh yes, I hadn't realised the Agincourt heads are attached to the bodies. I doubt I'll need to do many headswaps though, as the helmets are the most notably different part of the armour, wouldn't you agree? The bodies and legs are rather similar (remember, I'm not going for total historical accuracy and detail!)

I have seen your GoT thread and enjoyed it, but not as much as this one to be honest! I will be focusing on raising massed troops rather than individual characters at first. I'm thinking I'd like my troops not to be obviously aligned to any house or faction, using mostly neutral colours with little heraldry, so that I'll be able to mark their alligiences out with colourful character models complete with heraldry and banners when needed. And I probably won't be going for the obvious Stark and Lannister factions, but perhaps smaller houses from the Riverlands and The Reach. Though one idea I've just had, for smaller skirmish games with more individual models, would be The Mountain's Men vs the Brotherhood Without Banners. Lots of great potential for characterful models there...

Looking though that Mormont thread right now, great stuff!

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1599 on:** July 24, 2015, 06:16:56 PM »

Quote from: Charlie_ on July 24, 2015, 04:46:07 PM

Though one idea I've just had, for smaller skirmish games with more individual models, would be The Mountain's Men vs the Brotherhood Without Banners. Lots of great potential for characterful models there...

Now that's a great idea

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1600 on:** August 13, 2015, 09:46:57 PM »

Well, three years on from my first Perry Mounted Men At Arms, and I’m back where I started - building some new Perry Mounted Men-At-Arms!

Partly this is because my painting mojo has gone AWOL over the past few weeks. And since I enjoy the creative process of unique plastic figure building, I’m very happily kit-bashing lots of new plastic figures, which I will paint once I rediscover my painting groove.

Since I’ve latterly added a whole new Yorkist faction to my WOTR collection (see pages 87 onwards, above), I now need to equip this contingent with a hefty cavalry arm.

Also, since I built my first mounted host from the MMAA parts (supplemented with a few bits and pieces from the original WOTR bows and bills set and the Mercenaries set) the build possibilities have expanded exponentially with the addition of three more late Perry medieval sets: Foot Knights, Light Cavalry, plus the Agincourt to Orleans English army set.
So I wanted to have a play with the new potential in these sets alongside the MMAA components, to create some slightly different WOTR-era cavalry…

The first set of new figures are all Yorkist Mounted Men at Arms. These will accompany the King (who, to remind you, looks like this).

First up, is a standard bearer, gazing manfully up at his streaming banner, which bears the King’s personal arms (I'll be using one of the excellent Pete's Flags standards for this).
This is pretty much a standard build from the MMAA set, but with one of the newer heads from the Foot Knights set, and little bit of jiggery pokery with the flagstaff arm (the gauntlet and spearshaft come from the Light Cav set, grafted on).

Next, a bareheaded Man-At-Arms, made up from one of the Light Cavalry bodies and bridle arms, with the bare head from the MMAA set added, and a flourishing sword arm from the Foot Knights set.

The next one uses the closed kettle helm from the Foot Knights set on top of one of the MMAA bodies. The poleaxe dangling from his hand is also from the Foot Knights set. Polexaes were almost certainly not used from horseback as they required two hands to wield effectively. And it’s a very heavy weapon to hold just by the end of the haft (try it with a pickaxe some time). So in various ways, this figure is not very realistic. Oh well. I think he looks suitably sinister, which I like.

Finally, for now, a lance-armed rider. He's the light cavalry body with long boots and a breastplate under an open coat. The bridle arm is from the light cavalry set, the lance arm and helmet from the MMAA set.

The horses are all pretty standard. Obviously the trick is to try to build the horse so that it fits in with the attitude / pose of the rider.

Next up will be a posse of rascally hobilars, currours, coustillers, ribauds, scurrers - call ‘em what you will. Basically brigands on horseback... Gimme a day or two...

Phil Robinson · « **Reply #1601 on:** August 13, 2015, 09:55:55 PM »

Looking good, now get some paint on them please

Silent Invader · « **Reply #1602 on:** August 13, 2015, 11:02:49 PM »

Lush!

Helen · « **Reply #1603 on:** August 13, 2015, 11:43:45 PM »

Nice work Richard.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1604 on:** August 13, 2015, 11:51:39 PM »

Thanks.
By the way, I'm looking for a couple of extra Perry plastic Salute 2015 figures. If anyone's got one they're not going to use, please pm me with terms - thanks

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