Charlie's Perry Miniatures medieval blog - UPDATE at last! 3rd Feb

[LordOdo]

Just read through the thread in one go, top notch work all around!

This might just push me to purchase Perry plastics again 

hihihi I've yours

[pocoloco]

hihihi I've yours

Haha, indeed If I get more and end up doing nothing with them, perhaps you need more?

[Bloggard]

really love the way you do bases and the movement trays (a new variant on that approach for me) - looks great.

[LordOdo]

Haha, indeed If I get more and end up doing nothing with them, perhaps you need more?

Drop me a message if so I just ordered some myself though, and I've not even finished yours yet..

[Charlie_]

really love the way you do bases and the movement trays (a new variant on that approach for me) - looks great.

Thanks, I'm surprised people like my basing so much to be honest, it really is a very simple method I use.

I'm undecided yet whether I'll texture and paint the movement trays in the same way yet, as they do look rather nice as they are. But that decision can wait until I have more done!

[Charlie_]

Latest batch....

Three soldiers in the livery of House Tully.



The archers are both metals from Crusader Miniatures. Very nice sculpts, I enjoyed painting them! The one in the middle has had his bow hand replaced by a plastic one from the Perry kits - the hands are the weakest point of the Crusader sculpts, and are easily replaced. The one on the right though couldn't be replaced without some resculpting of the leg, but oh well, he will do!



A man-at-arms accompanied by the banner of House Goodbrook. The man-at-arms is a Perry metal, I really like the set it's from. I've painted two of them so far. They are all in standing poses leaning on their poleaxes, which makes them very useful for command groups.
The standard bearer is another metal from Crusader, one of their 'pikemen'. Not as wonderful as their archers, but still perfectly acceptable and a very useful pose for holding flags! Note his funny little hands....
The flag itself I made and printed myself.

[tyrionhalfman]

Nice additions. Metals are good for characters aren't they. Thanks for sharing

[Atheling]

Nice work 

The Crusader Wars of the Roses metals mix very well with the Perry stuff.

Darrell.

[Charlie_]

This week's update....



Two Perry plastics alongside one of the Perry metals. You can see how the metal chap has horribly malformed hands and a funny face.... The quality of the hands and faces on the plastics is so much higher, and some of the faces are just full of character which gets unlocked once painted, I really like how these two turned out....
Nevertheless the metals have some interesting, useful poses and equipment not available on the plastic kits, so fit in nicely scattered throughout large units of plastics.
He looks a bit shorter than the other two, but that's because he is in a leaning forward pose...



The man-at-arms on the right is a conversion using legs from the Agincourt set. A bit of cutting was required to remove the torso and give him one from the WOTR, so he wouldn't be restricted to an outdated bascinet (the Agincourt M@A bodies have the heads already attached, and can't really be removed nicely without some proper green stuff skills due to the mail aventails). A few of these conversions expand the range of poses for armoured men-at-arms.

I will use this pair as a command group for my archers.

To those with a nerd-like knowledge of A Song Of Ice And Fire, like I have... he is Ser Desmond Grell! Anyone who can tell me who that is without looking it up wins a cookie!

[Captain Blood]

Nice work Charlie. Totally agree with you. The plastics are infinitely better than the metals. And your comment about painting unlocking the faces is spot on.

[Atheling]

firstly, I agree, there can be some differences in the sculpting of the metals and the plastics- I suppose that it's a lot easier to get a 'three up' anatomically more 'real' than the 28mm dollie/sculpt.

A good paint job on the mini's solves all re: differential between plastics and metals:

(If I may?)



Darrell.

[LordOdo]

To those with a nerd-like knowledge of A Song Of Ice And Fire, like I have... he is Ser Desmond Grell! Anyone who can tell me who that is without looking it up wins a cookie!

I was close, but I had to look up to check if i was right. I guess you've done a younger version of Ser Desmond? 

[LordOdo]

Btw; if you look up House Grell, you'll find a blazon, so you could give him a shield if you'd like

[Charlie_]

And your comment about painting unlocking the faces is spot on.

Some of them turn out to have handsome, slender faces, whilst others are real ugly brutes!!!

A good paint job on the mini's solves all re: differential between plastics and metals:

(If I may?)

Ah yes, that's your work isn't it! Very nice, I'll be adding that set to my list sometime in the future as well.

I was close, but I had to look up to check if i was right. I guess you've done a younger version of Ser Desmond? 

Btw; if you look up House Grell, you'll find a blazon, so you could give him a shield if you'd like

Yes, I have in mind that this is all going to be set during Robert's Rebellion, so all the older characters from the book will be a bit younger. Means the army will be led by a Hoster Tully who isn't bed-bound... But I'm keeping it flexible, so it can represent any generation of these Houses.  And yes, Ser Desmond has some very nice heraldry, he's going to get a personal flag to accompany him at some point!

[Charlie_]

This week's update, five billmen / halberdiers.



Not much to say here. Two metals among the plastics. Despite what I said in my earlier post, I do really like these metal sculpts, they have character.

Annoyingly my matt varnish just ran out, so their jackets look a bit glossy.