After inspiration supplied by Sebastofigs Medievals, I thought I would put up some photos of my recently launched HYW project. I have about 800 and have finished about 100 so far. Long way to go to finish but started. I went the shiny plate armor route. It is weird about 100YW armor. It seems most museum photos and Osprey drawings of 100YW armor show plate armor as shiny. Yet almost all the period paintings show the majority of troops in black armor. I have always wondered about the contradiction but so far I have gone with shiny. I may put up more photos as the project moves along.
Mounted knights unbased...
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Medieval%2010mm/Picture009.jpg)
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Medieval%2010mm/Picture008.jpg)
Crossbows unbased
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Medieval%2010mm/Picture011.jpg)
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Medieval%2010mm/Picture010.jpg)
Foot Knights Unbased
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Medieval%2010mm/Picture012.jpg)
And a couple photos of some dark age Anglo-Saxon Huscurls/Select Fryd...
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Dark%20Ages%2010mm/Picture014.jpg)
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/Jagger_016/Dark%20Ages%2010mm/Picture013.jpg)
Looking good Jagger 8)
How's the project coming along, Jagger?
I like what you posted. My own plate armor figures have the darker color, but your brighter armor looks excellent.
The mounted plate knights and the mounted men-at-arms are wonderful figures, I think.
I opted for the 15th-century so as to get some of the hand gunners and more of the artillery into the game. The artillery looks cool on the battlefield, but I think in our games it has not scored a hit yet-- which may be true to life.
Anyway, I'd like to see how the project is coming since March.
looking good Jagger :D
Vey nice paint job, especially the knights.
The difference in the appearance of plate armour could be down to the maintenance. A coating of black lead (graphite) for day to day use would protect the steel from rusting and allow plates to move over each other easily. This could be polished off for special occasions when that extra bit of shine in needed to impress.
I always use a finish closer to gunmetal for my plate armour (barring lacquered Japanese armours, naturally). But since we're on the subject or realism, let me air another pet peeve: why does EVERY figure-maker, in EVERY scale, always show crossbowmen firing at a level trajectory? Thi would make sense if they were firing Martini-Henrys, but a few minutes checking renaissance and medieval military pictures will show the logically obvious fact that if you want to fire a crossbow more than twenty paces you elevate the thing to 30 degrees or more to allow for gravity. Come on, sculptors - Newton wrote it up rather later, but they still knew about gravity, and crossbowmen who didn't compensate would have left few offspring behind to pass on their defective genes.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 October 2010, 07:22:03 PM
I always use a finish closer to gunmetal for my plate armour (barring lacquered Japanese armours, naturally). But since we're on the subject or realism, let me air another pet peeve: why does EVERY figure-maker, in EVERY scale, always show crossbowmen firing at a level trajectory? Thi would make sense if they were firing Martini-Henrys, but a few minutes checking renaissance and medieval military pictures will show the logically obvious fact that if you want to fire a crossbow more than twenty paces you elevate the thing to 30 degrees or more to allow for gravity. Come on, sculptors - Newton wrote it up rather later, but they still knew about gravity, and crossbowmen who didn't compensate would have left few offspring behind to pass on their defective genes.
Sounds obvious when you put it like that! It's nothing a careful bit of bending wouldn't fix though.
Although don't forget that when shooting medieval crossbows at short range you actually need to be aiming below the target point...so maybe bend some downwards too!