Lord Roos retinue

[15thpanzer]

Hello

The most recent addition to my Lancastrian family is the ever faithful Lord Roos. A 40 figure retinue with 20 bow, 10 bill and 10 fully harnessed. The more observant and/or knowledgeable of you will notice I cheated on the coat of arms, but I’ve never had much luck representing ermine. Honesty always the best policy.

Next on the work bench is Heron’s northern spears which will be another 40 strong contingent with a 20 spear / 20 bow mix (WIP figs on another thread).

Cheers

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking as always 

cheers

James

[Arlequín]

Wonderful job! They totally look the part! 

Being pedantic though, 'Spears' in contemporary parlance would be a unit of horsemen, not a group of infantry. In the case of the Heron family of the border region, the 'Northern Spears' are what we would call 'Border Horse' or 'Border Reivers' today.

[15thpanzer]

Hello Arlequin. Point taken, bad language on my part. They will be used to represent Northumberland's spear/pike/bill/pointy-stick armed infantry as I hope they might have appeared at Second St Albans. Putting them under Heron's arms as I already have Northumberland's main retinue and plan to paint a smaller Percy retinue (from Leconfield, near my home town of Beverley). Cheers.

[Ray Rivers]

Those are excellent! 

[pocoloco]

Great looking retinue! 

I just wish I had the guts to do something to my Perry WOTR plastics... maybe better to let them go than just keep them bugging me though

[painterman]

Nice looking unit - look impressive.
Interesting basing style - leaving the edges - but I think it works well.
Simon

[traveller]

Stunning! Perry miniatures?

[max]

Excellent retinue!
How do you get the livery colours? Do you guess them or do you have a book or something?

[Captain Blood]

Lovely as ever. Another whole box! Your collection must be quite vast by now.
Don't forget we're going to have a game with them all one day

[15thpanzer]

Excellent retinue!
How do you get the livery colours? Do you guess them or do you have a book or something?

Thanks Max. A simplistic way to establish livery colours is to match to the lords standard. So Roos standard is blue over yellow so livery blue on the right and yellow left. Warwick's standard all red so all red livery. Northumberland black and red etc. I confess I have guessed at some and tweaked others for artist licence. There are a few liveries I wish I could find info on such as Fitzhugh and Greystoke (any suggestions out there?) but most of the main combatants liveries are covered in the publications from Freezywater. Not to be taken as gospel they do give plenty of help in this field. Cheers.

[15thpanzer]

Lovely as ever. Another whole box! Your collection must be quite vast by now.
Don't forget we're going to have a game with them all one day

Thanks Capt. It is filling up available shelf space rapidly. Looking forward to putting them into the field against hardened campaigners!!

[grant]

Very inspiring!

[Arlequín]

There are a few liveries I wish I could find info on such as Fitzhugh and Greystoke (any suggestions out there?)

Sometimes, but not always, where someone was a Knight of the Garter, their stall plate shows their coat of arms on a shield, along with their badge as a crest and their livery as decoration. Sometimes the colours are the same, sometimes not.

On that basis, Fitzhugh's would therefore be a blue and white livery (as opposed to the blue and yellow of his arms), with a red beaked and legged raven (a play on Ravensworth) as his badge (very similar to Lord Scrope's in other words).

Lord Greystoke I can't really help with... other than suggesting an ape perhaps. 

[15thpanzer]

Thanks again Arlequin. Will be putting that info to good use. So, a chimpanzee passant it is. Cheers.