Perry Plastic Men-At Arms Box Cover Art

[Ray Rivers]

They sure look like they have "Captain Blood" written all over them to me... 

[Captain Blood]

Lordy lordy lordy...   
I cannot wait.

[Arthur]

 

[Happy Wanderer]

Gents,

With so much variation possible what would be the best source of info regards armour combinations that could be using these figures for the WOTR or is a simple case that as armour is so individualistic that any combinations go?

Cheers

Happy W

[Arlequín]

Top quality armour was bought as a made to measure suit, so would be all of one style. The cheaper 'munition' quality stuff was bought 'off the peg' as batches of breastplates and so on, or individuals also used bits and bobs from various sets to make up a suit (or part of one).

Personally I wouldn't worry too much about mixing styles, although as always you can guarantee there will always be someone around who can point out that you have 'Milanese' arms on a 'Flemish' body. The Perrys are really into all things 15th Century, so I imagine everything will be compatible within the set.

Cheapest need to know source for my money is probably Osprey's The English Medieval Knight 15th Century by Christopher Gravett. IIRC he is top man at the Royal Armouries in Leeds (or was) and while the actual history may not be his strong point, he knows armour. 

[Blackwolf]

These are great! Perfect for my new project...

[Captain Blood]

Fabulous - those poleaxes look good, and an alspeiss too! Joy  

Some of the helmets look suspiciously like existing ones from the other sets, although there are definitely some nice new ones there too, which is good.

Love the poses of the bodies.

So presumably it's just this one frame in the box (X times) plus the two figure command frame we've already seen...

That means nowhere near as much variety as in the earlier WOTR sets, which is a tiny bit disappointing, and yet these additional components on top of the existing sets will increase the overall build variety of the whole series exponentially - so I'm still very happy  

The only slight problem is that I already have way way too many fully armoured men-at-arms in my WOTR host, compared to the amount of billmen and bowmen. This is just going to make it worse! By golly they look good though  

[Arthur]

So presumably it's just this one frame in the box (X times) plus the two figure command frame we've already seen...

According to the Perry blurb, the box will contain 38 figures - so logically six of the six-figure frame above plus the two-figure command sprue previewed a few weeks ago, yes.  

[Arthur]

And here they are (well, almost...) :

[commissarmoody]

Looks pretty cool

[Atheling]

Oh boy! now I am panting!!! 

I love vignette of the knight getting his squire to put his harness on!!!

 

I've been thinking about the huge range of possibilities for this boxed set for many a month if not a year!

Darrell.

[grant]

Cool

[tomrommel1]

Just preordered!!!!

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Ordered

[Captain Blood]

Ordered

Too right!