HYW Perry English Archers- Battle of Verneuil- Close Ups Added 10/08/15

[Atheling]

I took the opportunity to take some snaps of some of the HYW English that I've been painting and rebasing on Thursday gone at the club with a bit of scenery in the background. Some of them had already been painted up- others (two bases) painted fairly recently. With my ongoing obsession about Late Medieval warfare this will almost certainly be an ongoing project for the rest of my life!

You can see many (and I mean a lot!) more pics on my La journee Blog here:

http://lajourney-bedford.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/battle-of-verneuil-english-re-basing.html

Anyway, here are some of the results:









There are another 17 good pics on my blog  

Darrell.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Fantastic as ever.   

I really like the French Men at Arms attacking - I will have to get AO6.

[Atheling]

Fantastic as ever.   

Thanks Mick 

I really like the French Men at Arms attacking - I will have to get AO6.

Yeah, it's a brilliant pack. I usually snap up an packs of this nature that the Perry's produce for their ranges as they never fail to look the part on my vignette style of basing.

I've got a great one for the Sudan too but more on that at a later date.

Darrell.

[Atheling]

Close ups added:

Here are some close ups that (I hope!) will elucidate how the individual bases act as mini vignettes telling their own story and by adding more bases of how the overall story is depicted:



















Cheers,
Darrell.

[Mason]

Really nice work on these, sir.
Full of character and 'life'.
 

[Harry Faversham]

Brilliant work Athers old top. Love the detail of the hammer resting agin the stake...

you is the man!

[Ray Earle]

Great work. I like how each base tells a story. Very well done. 

[Gangleri]

Very lovely, and full of character.

[Atheling]

Thanks guys 

Great work. I like how each base tells a story. Very well done. 

Yeah, that's what I always aimed for with my basing Ray. I've never liked the idea of mini's looking like automatons lined up in neat rows as this is simply not how things played out in most Medieval battles. I'm not a big fan of singularly based mini's either. I had my fill of that with WAB though I was known for breaking the odd basing rule on a few occasions.

The Perry ranges are taylor made for setting up mini diorama/vignette type bases.

Darrell.

[tomrommel1]

really nice indeed

[rumacara]

Lovelly painting Darrell.

[Argonor]

Very nice diorama-basing! 

I think those minis would fit, style-wise, with my old Perry-sculpted late-80's Bretonnian Archers (of which I have about 8, if I can find them all) - but would they size-wise, do you think?

[Atheling]

Very nice diorama-basing! 

I think those minis would fit, style-wise, with my old Perry-sculpted late-80's Bretonnian Archers (of which I have about 8, if I can find them all) - but would they size-wise, do you think?

Thanks 

What I've found is that if you pop the odd one in no one will be any the wiser unless they go looking for it.

They do fit well though the heads and weapons are noticeably larger.... a good lick of paint can usually fix that  .

Darrell

[Argonor]

OK, thanks!

[tyrionhalfman]

They look great all together a fantastic diorama feel.you can just picture a wave of French men at arms foundering under a storm of English arrows.I enjoyed watching these come together and the end result is brilliant