Wow, so it's been 3 months since the last post - crazy. I once again fell off the painting wagon, mainly as a result of switching my focus to archery. I recently joined the English Warbow Society (EWBS), one of the only societies in the world to focus upon medieval style archery using heavy draw weight bows. I've spent the last few months putting together sets of arrows (shameless plug - if anyone's interested in having some put together PM me!) and wrestling with the new 95 lbs draw English Yew bow I bought from another society member. I've recently managed to source some Ash staves, so I think my next step will be having a go at bow making itself.
Back to the painting itself. My interest was re-sparked after seeing these beauties..
.. and thinking 'God, they'd look good in my Vorhut!'. As a result I grabbed some of the metal Perry pikemen who have been lounging around on my desk for ages and got them painted in record time. Quite happy with the results:
These will be my third rankers - like I say I want to work the casualties into the front ranks, and I've got grand plans for that Man at Arms being escorted away from the battle.. Here's the second and third rank together, I'm quite liking the wall of pikes which is building up.
I've got one more rank of metal models to go then I need to grab another mercenaries box. Hopefully by that point the casualties might have been released...
