Barons' War additions (14)

 Another week and another batch of troops join the Barons' War collection!

Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester. The Earl is a Footsore miniature, while the serjeant carrying his banner is from Crusader Miniatures. 

I was running low on Northstar metal spears and decided to try out the new plastic ones from Northstar, the banner bearer has the first of these! I'll be using a lot more plastic spears in the future.

This next piece is quite cool. I had a Serjeant with a torch from Footsore and wanted to have him lighting a signal beacon.

At the recent Britcon event in Leicester, James picked me up a brazier from Irongate Scenery a really cool piece with built in LED, perfect for the job!

I built up the plinth from a stack of 25mm bases and finished with stonework from the Willis Scenery range. Some dowel was cut up to represent chopped logs and stacked alongside the plinth 

Then because  I like to over complicate things I built a unlit fire, again from chopped dowel which can be replaced with the IGS LED flames when lit! 

The serjeant is painted to represent one of Gilbert de Clares' men.

I think this will be a very cool objective marker in our games.

Another five angry monks have also been added to the few painted last time. Again, all Footsore miniatures.

Another trio of archers and a couple of peasants. 

Lastly a few more shields for use as casualty markers were painted up.

Do I have more than enough Barons' War stuff? Yes. Will I keep adding more? Also yes!

Barons' War additions(13)

Working through painting more of the Footsore Barons' War figures that I acquired in a trade from chum Tony.

The last update was made of of the great and the good, this time it's 20 figures from a much lower strata of society.

This first pair represent Friar Tuck and Little John from the range.

As  Nottingham lad I'm not supposed to say so but it was the Legend of Robin Hood for a reason - he and his merry men didn't exist and were a composite of several stories, many from a later age.

Nice figures anyway!

Four peasant levy armed with quarter staff, spear and clubs. 

As you can see I'm back to the joy of painting the occasional gambeson!

A dozen more archers were added to the collection.

I know that it's useful to note the palette used for the base coats for future reference, all Vallejo Model Colour: Russian Uniform WWI, Luftwaffe Uniform, German Field Grey, Flat Earth, Chocolate Brown, Black Grey, Basalt Grey, Stone Grey.

Lastly a pair of fighty monks.

I'm well over half way through what was added to the pile of potential, so hopefully more of the same soon!

Imperialist Heroes

 

What started as a small project to square off against the undead has rolled on like a juggernaut and eclipsed the children of the night, but the end was in sight.

These four heroes are all that remained to be painted*

This Imperialist Commander model is rather exquisite, although being a single print is a bugger to paint the detail! And there is plenty of detail, the carrier pigeons, the juvenile griffon, and everything.

The standard bearer broke twice during painting, hence all the glue on the legs, when his sword blade pinged off the third time, I left it off.

A second Imperialist Hero on foot, I already one done, but this gives a few more options.

I had a broken Gendarme left over so stuck back on the plume and tail and added another Champion.

Finally a second Witch Hunter to purge the blasphemous foe.

*Truth be told I could likely squeeze another spear unit from the figures left over from making the Tercios.

À Montfort! À Montfort!

The recent Midgard supplement À Montfort! À Montfort! contains lots of my rank and file troops, but James had been concentrating on getting most of the characters done. 

With the release of the Wargames Atlantic Mounted Knight Command I thought I should buy that set, plus a set of the Mounted Knights  and set around making a few commanders of my own.

The metal figures are from Footsore acquired from chum Tony in a trade, cheers mate! 

For Simon de Montforts' two-tailed Lion I used decals from VVV that were added as part of the base-coat, washed liked the rest of the figure with AP Strong Tone and then highlighted along with everything else. 

His banner is carried by an unknown knight bend sable on field argent.

John FitzJohn, rebel English nobleman who declared for the Barons in the 2nd Barons War.

Accompanied by a bannerman with a suspiciously Lusignan heraldry.

An unknown Bishop accompanied by a ferocious looking Chaplain.

Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore. Royalist Baron, credited with the killing of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham.

His bannerman is a Footsore model.

Henry de Hastings, rebel Knight, made Baron by Simon de Montfort. The bannerman is again a Footsore model.

Hugh le Despenser, close companion and ally of Simon de Montfort, killed alongside him at the Battle of Evesham. Bannerman from Footsore again.

John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. Originally a supporter of Simon de Montfort, switched to the Royalist cause before hostilities began. 

I was running low on suitable bannermen so John is accompanied by the faithful hound from the command pack.

Nicholas Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave. Rebel baron. Looks like I buggered up the heraldry on the model and painted him as his son John who fought in the Scottish Wars of Independence. So, I painted his bannerman with the three wheatsheafs.

King Henry III. This is actually the King John model from Footsore, but like father like son.

"A Peaceful Not Warlike Man" I wanted him to be less martial than the other commanders.

Accompanied by a Lusignan flunkey while a knight pays homage. 

Left over after painting all the commanders were a quintet of Knights who will join the rest of the force.

I also took the opportunity to add a few more stamina loss markers.

I've really enjoyed painting 28mm again!