10mm ECW Royalist Rgts for Edgehill. (For King and Parliament rules

 Well I have to say that that was £50 well invested. I have sold some 15mm mostly bare metal old British Napoleonics so I decided to invest in improving my photography and I'm well chuffed! Lighting in photography does make all the difference so as soon as the light box arrived I just had to give it a go. Having painted up another two regiments of 10mm ECW for 'King and Parliament' rules, in this case the two royalist Lord General's units I took pictures of both these and the King's Lifeguard of foot regiment again as a comparison to the last post. Note that the King's Lifeguard of foot are a 'Standard Battalia', 1/3 pike - 2/3 shotte, while the Lord General's are 'Pike-Heavy as donated by the extra pike added.

If you recall the idea is to use physically small units in 10mm in order to utilise my table at home. I could never do this with 28mm figures. I haven't a clue what colour uniform (if indeed they had a uniform) or flag these chaps had but then I suspect that no one else knows either as info is sparing to say the least. However mixed blues with other colours thrown in seemed a good idea at the time. If someone pops up on here and tells me different then I will be polite but curse their knowledge under my breath! All figures are Pendraken.

A start at least.

Dave.

28mm English mounted knights, cir 1388

These fellows were it has to be said a bit of a struggle. work is busy at the moment so my time is short but I do find painting these types of individual figures much more difficult than say a battalion of Napoleonic troops which can be done as a production style, one colour after another. Add to this the bane of any medieval figure painter, heraldry then slowly does it as they say! Never mind they're done and fairly pleased I am too.

I did decide to only do the command stand plus one unit of English mounted as these chaps tended to fight on foot, not always of course, but mostly. The other twelve still to do will start off my French contingent for Crecy. All the figures here are from knights/esquires present at Otterburn 1388, but will do for other encounters as I'm not that fussy.

Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur). All heraldry is hand painted, as you can see I'm not great with any animals, geometric shapes fine but nothing 'living' as it were!

Left to right: Sir Rauf de Euar, Sir William Hilton, Sir Robert Umfraville, Nicholas Reymes esquire, Sir Ralf Percy, Sir Mathew Redman.

I'm seriously thinking of bulking out both sides of these forces, but not just yet. Maybe 10mm ECW next.

Dave.