Work in Progress.

 

Slowly getting back to normal after our holidays , not much gaming going on as the garden has turned into a jungle in our absence and there are other small but annoying tasks about the home to do . Have started on the above wagon for my Lion Rampant WOTR's project. It is from the Perrys , very nice but being metal very fiddly to put together , luckily the canvas canopy is made from resin so it cuts the weight down a bit . I drilled through the MDF base and into the bottom of the wagon and inserted and glued a long pin to help fix it to the base securely (hopefully) . Got the wagon and horses painted but need to finish off the bases and paint the foot figure. It's main role in the games will be as a objective marker for either side to defend / capture, I'm NOT going to do all the complecated traces etc from the wagon to the horses as this will be used in the rough and tumble on the tabletop. I've just noticed I've put the horse bases in the wrong order for the picture the ridden horse goes nearest the wagon . Hopefully I will get this model finished and onto the tabletop for a game this week.

The final batch - odds and sods.

 

Some of the Perrys Men at Arms with the odd Mercenary body thrown in .

Archers for Richard Duke of York's retinue - sadly this close uop photo rather shows up some of the mold lines I failed to see whilst painting them up .

Richard Duke of York (father of Richard III) , the splendid flag is provided in the Perry box . Time to get these figures onto the tabletop ...........

Personalities for The Cousin's War .

 

Warwick - 'The Kinge Maker' , these are a mixture the Mercenary sprue and the Men at Arms sprue.

John Clifford 9th Lord of Skipton .(Butcher Clifford)

The murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford at Wakefield - think Clifford may have been a victim of Tudor 'Black Propoganda' - it is thought that the Earl Rutland was killed in the battle.

The Cousin's War - even more figures done.

 

I got a box of the Perrys Mercenaries to add to the various forces for my Lion Rampant armies.

Here is a unit of Crossbowen - when they are in units of sixes they count as skirmishers. These units will be painted agnosticly so they can be used by either side .

Another unit of skirmishers , this time Handgonners , again painted so that they can be used by either side.

The Cousin's War - more figures painted.

So chugging away in the background of lost wi-fi , real life issues etc, I have been painting away at my Perry plastic WOTR's figures , here we have a unit of bowmen of the Percy retinue. 

And a unit of Billmen again for the Earl of Northumberlands retinue . They are in groups of 12 for the Lion Rampant rules which I will be using for this project.

 

The last and first.

 

Managed to get some painting done over the Christmas period . These are the last figures of 23 the two hollowcast figures which I have repaired for my Lancer figures -.: Britains hollow-casts finally based up ! (tonystoysoldiers.blogspot.com) 

These are the first figures of 24 - four Men at Arms for my Lion Rampant Wars of the Roses project -.: Oh No !, not ANOTHER project ! (tonystoysoldiers.blogspot.com) They are of course Perry plastic 28mm and being mainly armoured paint up quickly . I must crack on with this project and get enough done for a game - more to follow in 2024.

First fruit .

 

Things have been progressing slowly as 'real life' and other things have interupted my painting , but I have got my first unit of Lancastrian Men at Arms done , some in the livery of Henery Percy , Earl of Northumberland . These painted up quickly as they are mainly armoured which only took some washes and highlighting to get most of the figures done .

I have also glued up and undercoated a unit of Longbowmen which will be next up to paint , hopefuly in the coming week.

Stuff arrives !

So things are getting real ! , my order from the Perrys arrived this morning , that's very quick service indeed ! 

And I got a free figure as well , Henry Tudor at Bosworth I think, as he's brandishing a crown . Now all I have to do is start gluing things together - a task I find enjoyable as it takes me back to my youth gluing model aircraft kits 

The separate Men at Arms sprue arrived yesterday and I've got them glued up and undercoated ready for painting , so things are progressing !

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Oh No !, not ANOTHER project !

 It's all well and good me doing these various 'Wofun 2D projects' - BUT it doesn't involve me having anything to paint ! and painting figures is such a large proportion of my hobby. To this end I started casting about for some figures to paint , now I have unpainted figures in the 'corner of shame' under the wargaming table - but  none I wanted to paint ! - this is starting to sound like I'm making excuses and building up a case for buying more Toy Soldiers !. *

Whatever project it was to be had to have limits and a set of rules that I like to play with them .I've always liked the idea of the Wars of the Roses - or The Cousin's War as it was called at the time - but the battles are a bit boring, one side runs at the other - one side runs away and is slaughtered - there might be more to it than that - but you know what I mean. Then I saw an article about using 'Lion Rampant' for the WOTRS , the advantage of 'Lion Rampant' is the games are short, fun AND you don't need many figures ! plus it has about 12 interesting scenarios..

An obvious choice for figures would be the Perry Miniatures plastics, in the rule book it suggests a force of 1 unit of Men at Arms (6 figures) , 2 units of Bowmen (24 figures) and 1 unit of Billmen (12 figures) - very doable ! - So I ordered 2 boxes of the above - interestingly they where cheapest straight from the Perrys. 

To add some variety to the forces I also ordered their box of Mercenaries , which will allow to to add / mix and match some Crossbowmen , Handgunners and Pikemen . 

I sat back rather pleased with myself - then I realised -I was short on armoured Men at Arms - the Bills and Bows box only has 4 each - BLAST ! I needed 12 ! - however I looked on eBay and managed to pick up one of their armoured Men at Arms sprue so saving the day . So I'm looking forward to starting this project, I aim to keep the core units small and add on Mercenaries to get some variety . - watch this space !

* it is !