I've been tinkering with some more Perry Miniatures plastic figures this morning, this time some late medieval men at arms from the Wars of the Roses bows and bills box set. I've had these in the plastic pile for ages, having originally intended to assemble them for a couple of Lion Rampant retinues way back in 2015. If they aren't too fiddly and I enjoy gluing all the bits together, I'm thinking of starting a Lion Rampant project to follow on from my The Men Who Would Be Kings field forces, or perhaps even run them in parallel but only tackling one War or the Roses unit at a time. I've also been having thoughts about the numerous boxes of Wargames Factory plastic Malburian infantry, cavalry and artillery that I acquired for Maurice, but that's another story. Anyway, here's the result of my tinkering so far, in the shape of plastic Bertrand and his injection moulded mate.
The pose of the guy on the left seems naturally powerful. Funny how some minis 'get it' and others look like ... well ... plastic bertrands.
ReplyDeleteYou have to really jiggle around with the arms to get them to look right...otherwise they can look a bit silly.
ReplyDeleteWe've been working on a similar project with each player putting together a retinue based around 1 or 2 nobles. We've decided to base them individually but work around multiples of six, so we can have units either 12 strong (for Lion Rampant) or 18 strong (for for Hail Caesar)
ReplyDeleteThey do look good (although I thought Plastic Bertrand was a French punk rocker...) I keep getting horribly tempted by the Fistful of Lead rules medieval skirmish variant for this scale.
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