Arget8's Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere (Lannister) Update on page 4!

[arget8]

Well, thank you for the honor, Captain! 

[arget8]

Hey guys, its been a while. I should have my first unit of crossbows ready to show off by the end of the day. More Freys and their sworn houses. I'm pretty pleased with them. Just got my painting mojo back after almost five months in a bit of a painting/modelling slump. Not to fear though, I'm motivated again and, in my opinion, improved! So watch this space!

[Ogrob]

Looking forward to it. We always need more GoT stuff!

[admiraldick]

A nice start.

A bit OT, but what make are your bases? The cav bases are particularly interesting to me.

[arget8]

The bases are from warbases, great prices and great people. They have all sorts of awesome stuff on there!

[arget8]

Can anyone hear cellos? Is it raining?

Here are the crossbowmen, the dastardly brave men who shot Robb Stark and slaughtered his most trusted retainers from their cowardly intelligently planned positions in the audience booths above the wedding feast.



Crossbow men from the sworn houses: Erenford, Haigh, and Charlton



The Freys



And the group shot


Next will be either the mounted knights or another unit of spearmen, we'll see what strikes my fancy. They are both built, so it's a matter of basing and painting them, but it is pretty cold right now, so I may have to wait until it warms up.


Until then, welcome to the Twins and enjoy the wedding!

[tomrommel1]

nice additions

[arget8]

I promise that they look better in person, the iphone camera isn't the best for small stuff.

[sukhe_bator]

These are coming together nicely...

[arget8]

Thanks for the kind word gents! I've got the last 12 spearmen ready to prime up and I just need to get the sand on the cav bases to have them ready. I've determined that it will be easier to paint the shields while on the sprues. That'll let me paint up the figures beneath the shield better this time around as well. The spearmen should be the same mix, half Frey and half sworn houses. This will allow me to field one 12 man unit of Frey spearmen and one 12 man unit of sworn house spearmen. The knights will be 3 Frey and 3 sworn houses.

Next after that will be the men serving the Warden of the North, the Boltons. I have the fierce foot, the pavise spearmen, and some of the archers built already, so they should be coming a little faster than the Freys did, but that depends on how motivated I am to do the shields, haha.

Watch this space for the next week or so!

[sukhe_bator]

I like the parti coloured aketons and coat colours for representing liveries of your minor houses. I also like your concept of 3 Main house riders and 3 sworn house riders in a LR/DR unit (which I will shamelessly steal when it comes to adding mounted contingents to my forces) . Looking forward to seeing how these and your Boltons shape up in future posts...

[arget8]

Thanks! I wanted to make things a little more interesting for myself. Also, my assumption is that most levy soldiers would be forced to find or make colored clothes.

[Momotaro]

Love your freehand shields - you're a braver painter than I am!

[arget8]

Haha, thanks. I've been waffling over whether to get transfers, but I think that I've decided to keep the freehand. My skills have started to improve and in real life the shields would be painted by the men carrying them usually, so I think they would be pretty simplistic anyway. You just gotta commit, I think.

[Captain Blood]

Good stuff. The more you paint the better you get 
Damn those hateful Freys though