Hundred Years War - DBA

[paulr]

Touched up:

• flock on second hill
• base coat on horses of first batch of Free Company
• base edges on the last batch of Scots

[paulr]

Flocked last 2 small hills

Dry brushed horses of first batch of Free Company

[paulr]

Touched up flock on the 2 small hills

Base coated and dry brushed the mail of the first batch of the Free Company

Pierre the Shy kindly dropped off the banners for my Scots

Banners added to the Scots
Banner edges and varnishing to do once dry

[paulr]

Banner edges done on the Scots

Varnishing tomorrow if the day warms up enough before the wind picks up

[paulr]

Another bit of flock touch up was needed on one of the small hills
Will hopefully get them sealed this afternoon if the weather allows

Base coated and dry brushed the helmets, metal weapons and armour of the first batch of the Free Company 

First half of the Scots varnished

[paulr]

The weather has turned to un-forecast misty drizzle  ~X(

Hopefully I manged to shelter the figures from the drizzle quickly enough and the varnish had dried enough that no harm was done

Unless it improves there won't be any more varnishing or sealing today

[paulr]

Weather improved slightly so got the hills are sealed
That should give them plenty of time to dry for Saturday

It looks as though the rest of the Scots will have to wait until Saturday or even Sunday for their varnish

First heraldry colour, Or, done on the Free Company

[toxicpixie]

Terrifying when the weather changes just as you finish spraying - severe argh moment!

[Ithoriel]

Was gloss varnishing the underside of the spaceship this afternoon had only just finished when it started to spit with rain. Quick hustle to get the thing inside and all the top lights open to ventilate the place and disperse the fumes.

Good luck with varnishing over the week-end Paul

[paulr]

Varnishing survived the misty drizzle
As usual had to brush varnish the labels and banners, done

Cloudy with a bit of wind today with sunny breaks so grabbed the opportunity to spray varnish the remaining Scots
Brush varnished the labels later in the day

Hills have dried up really well
Thanks Nobby for the video, the key bit of advice was a drop of fairy liquid (washing up liquid) as a flow aid, work much better than my last attempt a number of years ago

Finished the heraldry for the Free Company

Started the main clothes colours for the other men-at-arms

[paulr]

Finished the main clothes colours for the other men-at-arms

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Any photos? 

[paulr]

Cloudy with showers forecast so not much chance of photos today
Forecast is fine for tomorrow

Started the second clothes colours for the other men-at-arms

[paulr]

Finished the second clothes colours for the other men-at-arms

Started the third clothes colours for the other men-at-arms

Started the plumes, lance pennants & decorated tack

[paulr]

Today dawned fine and I had many domestic duties to do

My wife decided we should go out for lunch

We had to pop home and get changed before heading out to do some more jobs

I managed to grab 20 minutes while we were home, conveniently when the sun was at an appropriate angle to provide lighting for some photographs

[paulr]

Firstly many thanks to Pierre the Shy who assisted with the research of the particularly appropriate personalities and the banners for this army

IV/16 Scots Common

1x Norman-Scots nobles (Knight/Pike), 1x General (Knight/Pike)
Domhnall (Donald) MacDonald of Islay, Lord of the Isles and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. They commanded the opposing sides at the Battle of Harlaw, 1411





5x yeomen (Pike)





1x feudal archers (Mounted Bow or Bow) , 1x French (Knight) Sieur Gilbert Motier de Lafayette, Marshal of France
Sieur Gilbert's motto is perfect for a wargamer, "Cur non?" (Why not?) and he was a fore-father of Marquis de Lafayette who commands some of my AWI Americans.





1x hobilars (Cavalry) , 1x Islesmen (Blade) , 1x yeomen (Pike)

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2x Galwegians (Warband), 2x yeomen (Pike)





1x Highland archer (Bow), 1x "small folk" (Horde) , 1x Highland rabble (Horde)





I've noticed I missed the edges of the blue quadrants of a couple of the flags

Also one of the black banners needs another coat of brush varnish on one side as do a few labels

[paulr]

Painted & Based

1,076	Foot
132	Mounted
18	Models
1,226	Total

And that takes me over a couple of milestones:

• 8,007 10mm painted and based
• 20,122 total painted and based

The other counts are:

• 11,110 6mm
• 655 ships
• 350 15mm

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Impressive paining and research.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Photos at last!
Amazing and I love the details.

[fred.]

Another good looking army!

And some impressive total figure counts painted.