Thursday, June 23, 2022

Bill's Medieval Men at Arms


Before we get to the figures, last month I made a pair of new table coverings; just need to add the dots to make the grid one 6" boxes (150 cm) and the other 8" boxes (200 cm).


A unit of Men at Arms drawn from Bill's figures.


 These don' seem to have "Hinchliffe Noses"!


Good work with Shield transfers (not mine!).




Very limited touch up and basing were all these needed. 

A few polearms had to be replaced; fortunately there were several in the "Bits Box". 


As best I can tell this next unit is mostly composed of Custom Cast figures - Duke's first miniature figure company. 


The night of the round Table (note Pi on his shield!) is one of several given to me by Joe 15 or 20 years ago, and added to fill out the ranks. 


Teacher: "Pi R squared..."
Littler Johnny: No, no teacher, Cake are square, Pie are round!" 


The Knight with the Maltese cross is another add on from Joe. From the style and detail, I am pretty sure this figure (and probably the other, too) was painted by an old freind from our UConn days, Steve Gallagher.


This group required substantial touch up and weapon repairs. 

12 comments:

  1. Lovely figures and those shield transfers work well. The free-hand shields are also nicely done. Your touch-ups have blended in nicely Peter.

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    1. Thanks; I think they work quite well. The first unit didn't require much work but the second needed almost everything but the armor repainted.

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  2. The first unit are Black Tree Design.....
    Neil

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    1. Ah, thanks! I know John has quite a lot of BTD Medievals.

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  3. The muster continues! Good to see a lot of old timers working into your line up for Historicon. Nice touching up.

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    1. Calling up the veterans... hopefully not the invalids!

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  4. Another nice batch of figures there Peter and I do like your two camo mats drying on the garden fence!

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    1. Thanks, Keith; the fences are where I play "wargames graffiti", spaying random patterns of successive colors until it looks right.

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  5. Great looking pair of veteran units and good looking gaming mats!
    Best Iain

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  6. Neil has already done the first batch but the men-at-arms are predominantly from the old Hotspur range. I have a lot of these. After the demise of Hotspur, I think they were produced by several other manufacturers. You see them sometimes on eBay branded as Revenge. The knight with the pi shield is a minifig - maybe a Russian from the Alexsander Nevsky range? Maltese Cross guy maybe Ral Partha?

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    1. Thanks, Anthony. Yes, Mr. Pi is definitely a Minifig; I have a few like him in my collection of figures for D&D.

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