Modelling the Perry Plastics (UPDATE: lots of pics 28.06.2015 p.7)

[AlyMorrison]

 Lovely work Michael

And you have those nice new Perry light horse to look forward to

All the best. Aly

[tomrommel1]

very nice indeed

[Admiral Benbow]

Lovely work Michael
And you have those nice new Perry light horse to look forward to
All the best. Aly

Yes, you quite right, Aly. Now that I've seen them in the flesh I'm even more excited ... I have the strong impression we'll see some superbly painted examples shortly here in the forum, painted by a well known member. 

Good to meet you all again, looking forward to the next chance!

Cheers,

Michael

[Admiral Benbow]

Four months later. The Lead Painter's League season 9 is over, and shortly before the end of this "It's alive"-thread I will post some pics from the "siege of Neuss"-related LPL-entries.

First the finished artillery group no.1 with all the converted figures presented on page 1. As I had shown one of the crew painted already, two new miniatures were added. Here's the complet scene followed by some shots from different angles and without any terrain:














I experimented a bit with my new snapshot camera, so please excuse the minor photo quality in relation to the entry picture. More pics following tomorrow.

 

[AlyMorrison]

As they say...
Good things come to those that wait...

And this is indeed a good thing...

All the best. Aly

[Captain Blood]

Superb 

[Admiral Benbow]

The next one are artillery group no. 2 and some knights. The artillery set is from the fine Grenadier Fantasy Warriors range sculpted by Marc Copplestone:

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Fighting_Men_%28Fantasy_Warriors%29

When Marc sculpted the Fighting Men subrange, he did a real burgundian army secretly. You will find all of the burgundian standard types of fighters including crossbows and handgunners. I really like the dynamic poses of the crew, and as I have a second set I will use them again or as part of conversions.












The knights are Dietrich von Elben and his followers, a vassal of Heinrich von Hessen, the great leader of the Neuss defences. Dietrich died before Neuss. I designed the banner in Corel Draw, printed it b/w on copy paper, painted and shaded it and cut it out.







 

[OSHIROmodels]

Most excellent 

Those Copplestone figures seem to fit, do they scale well with the Perrys?

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

Those artillerymen are excellent. I wonder if they're still available. A lot of the Grenadier figures seem to have become available from other companies over the years...

And the plastics are beautifully done. A real treat. I see 'Shiva' over on Steve Dean's forum is also working on a whole collection for the siege of Neuss. Is he part of your group, Michael, or is that just a co-incidence?

[NurgleHH]

Richard, you can find them here: http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?cName=fantasy-2528mm-humans

Mirliton bought some parts of grenadier, but they don't sell them under the name grenadier.

@Michael: Großartig!!!!

[Helen]

Lovely work especially the basing on the artillery sets. The 1st Burgundian artillery piece set is beautiful.

All the best,

Helen

[Admiral Benbow]

And the plastics are beautifully done. A real treat. I see 'Shiva' over on Steve Dean's forum is also working on a whole collection for the siege of Neuss. Is he part of your group, Michael, or is that just a co-incidence?

It's just a co-incidence, Richard, but we have already had some contact via email with him in the meantime. He is "Xulutec" also and has a nice site here:

http://www.xulutec.blogspot.de/

Most excellent 
Those Copplestone figures seem to fit, do they scale well with the Perrys?
cheers James

The Copplestone ones are a bit more compact and a fraction smaller; but the Perry ones are all such slender types. The armoured knight holding the pole axe in the upper left of picture 1 of artillery group 1 above is a Copplestone one. For me it will work well enough. 

[Atheling]

Those artillerymen are excellent. I wonder if they're still available. A lot of the Grenadier figures seem to have become available from other companies over the years...

And the plastics are beautifully done. A real treat. I see 'Shiva' over on Steve Dean's forum is also working on a whole collection for the siege of Neuss. Is he part of your group, Michael, or is that just a co-incidence?

Those artillerymen are excellent. I wonder if they're still available. A lot of the Grenadier figures seem to have become available from other companies over the years...

Vexillia have them now Richard:

http://vexillia.com/mirliton/shop28_humans.html

Darrell.

[von Lucky]

What a lovely thread, some really excellent conversion and painting.

[Captain Blood]

Vexillia have them now Richard:

http://vexillia.com/mirliton/shop28_humans.html

Thanks Darrell.
Interesting to note that the prices in euros from Mirliton are very much cheaper than the prices in pounds from Vexilia... (especially considering the ever improving value of the pound against the euro - currently eu 1.41 to the pound... )