2nd Baron's War

[levied troop]

I rather like the medieval period, my first proper armies were French and English 100YW - now relocated to France -  and I wanted to redo the armies.  But starting with the 2nd Barons War and gradually expanding up to 1370.  So the first dozen units should give me a usable force for the Baron’s War but ideally should be able to double up as different units as required in the future.

For the first of these the Lincoln coat of arms seemed appropriate, as it could double as a ‘false’ French militia force in the English employ for the 100YW or even as a Genoese force in French service.

Basing is steel washers in sabot bases so that they can be nicely rules-neutral, the initial bases give me 2x6 man units for Lion Rampant but there are alternate bases that will give me 3x4 man bases for DBx:


Unit 1 - The Lincoln Militia spears





Unit 2 - The Lincoln Militia archers










All figures are Curtey’s Miniatures

[OSHIROmodels]

Very nice 

cheers

James

[Anderson Collection]

Good looking units well done

[rampantlion]

Great work! 

[Gibby]

Ah, fine Lincoln soldiers if I ever I saw some!

Lots of cool history surrounding Lincoln in this period as well, it's nice to see someone touch upon it in miniature!

[fred]

Very nice set of troops.

What is quite strange, is that I grew up near Linclon, and that the first figures I painted were in red and white halved livery. But I didn't know it was the livery for Lincoln until just now!

[Jeff965]

Lovely brushwork, more please.

[rumacara]

Very good painting.
Keep it coming.

[Codsticker]

Great work, love the sabot bases. I painted my first Curtey's this past summer and found them a joy to paint.

[Romark]

Nice work on those minis,they look great 

[Miantanomo]

Those are fine looking miniatures, especially with those paintjobs!

[levied troop]

Thanks for the kind comments chaps.

Next up:

Unit 3 - Sherwood Foresters
A bunch of the local shire wood chaps, hunters, poachers, gamekeepers.  Possibly better than your average militia.  Green and white seems to have been a common colour for archers, the addition of a unicorn to the standard is entirely fanciful (like the rest of my flags, the symbol is a transfer taken from an ageing GW sheet which seems to have survived quite well from 1991). If anyone knows what the standards of ordinary i.e. non-noble, medieval foot units looked like, don’t keep it to yourself 





Unit 4 - French mercenary crossbowmen
The King will employ these foreign specialists. Obviously extendable into the 100YW as French militia:







An attempt at improving my lousy photography:



Again, figures are Curteys.

[Dez]

Nottingem

[levied troop]

Thanks Dez.

I'll give that a go for the next foot unit I start.

[Unlucky General]

I just love the Curtey's Miniatures myself - I'm particularly fond of their spear armed foot soldiers. How do you think their archers compare?