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Some time ago I made up what I thought was all of a box of Perry Mounted Men at Arms 1450-1500.
It appeared when I came to transfer the sprues to the bits box (spare heads etc – always useful) that either my basing scheme was weird or my maths appalling, and there were two spare horses and bodies left over.
I wondered what to do with them – Generals, dogsbodies, markers or something – or wait and add them the next unnecessary unit when it inevitably came along.
Then I read OB’s posts about his conversions for 1513. That and following his leads to the Army Royal at stuartsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk I felt intimidated and inspired to have a go myself.
Greenstuff to hand – off we went:
Here are the two lucky lads, one obviously a little brighter than the other (he at least has a head). They have the beginnings of the caparison and I planned on them both having full embroidered skirts and coats by the time they were finished. I only had odd arms left so one heavily armoured arm each and one, well – not.
We’ll follow this blokes progress for now.
Now with his skirt and most of the coat done
Unbased but with a lick of paint.
Work continues on the second chap and then some thought needed about basing – still not really sure where these guys fit in with things in my armies.
All in all I’m moderately pleased with this one; the putty pushing needs a lot of work on the smoothing generally and the crispness in (small) bits of added armour. Although the paint job is far from perfect it masks a multitude of sins and at tabletop ranges it won’t look too bad. More to follow if I push on with Gendarme type 2 (no feathery hat on him though, which is a disappointment
).So thanks to OB, and Stuart and his workbench, for the inspiration – anything good is down to their lessons – the cock ups are all my own!
Well thank you!
And now I have stopped strutting around the room I have to confess the idea came from
via OB’s Gendarme conversions and blog
I did the putty and brushwork however – so like the man who sawed Damien Hirst’s cow in half, I had a hand in it.
Having been given a peremptory nudge in the conscience by Ken’s recent postings of his gendarme cavalry from this period, I remembered I promised I’d post a picture of the second guy when he was finished – so only 9 months late here we are:
They are both still in this state as I wonder whether they will be commanders or part of a unit.
Those of you who remember/are bothered to read above, will remember this guy had no feathery helmet originally – it didn’t look right to me without a plume so I stuck a pin in his head (heated – the pin not the head) and built a putty plume. Could be sharper but it does the job for me for now.
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