Saturday 14 July 2012

Bourchier & Scurrers complete



Well, this incessant rain has kept us all painting away, so at least there's plenty of colour to be had somewhere !

Here we have the last scurrer complete and his group for reference, 8 in total, the maximum the army list allows though I might add one more banner at some point.





A few additions were made to this figure to transform him, namely sculpted boots and a moustache along with a shield from the mercenaries boxed set.

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Next up is the completed base of Henry Berners, Lord Bourchier - 2nd Earl of Essex.

For referenece you can see the progress, conversion work and historical background to Lord Bourchier in the last few blog posts. This week has seen me working upon his standard bearer and standard, the latter took the longest but a pleasing result - I really can't get enough of these swallow tailed standards, they're a joy to put together.

I first paint the standard to completion leaving the fringes in their base colour as shown here;
I then attach the flag, carefully trim off any rough edges and highlight the fringes on the model;


I also tried to create a bit of dialogue between the figures to maximise upon the movement already in the plastic horses. Note also the moustache on the standard bearer.


Onward to the next nobleman (and standard) !

Stuart

8 comments:

  1. Lovely work Stuart - great flag and that extra facial hair is doing the business in making that clearly Tudors and not medievals.
    I love seeing your work, so many small brushstrokes that build up the details on the figures like a traditional painting.
    Simon.

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    1. My other hobby has an influence there I think; www.stuartmulligan.com

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  2. I really like what you've done with these, well done!

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  3. Beautiful figures and a damn nice flag too, nice one!!

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  4. Lovely minis !!! realy stunning work!

    Love the axe he is wheelding:)

    est regards Michael

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  5. Beautiful as always....I am thinking about doing some figures for Henry VII 1492 campaign in Brittany as a what if sort of thing....I am going to plagiarise your feats for some of it!!!!

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    1. The Tudor ripple has started! that's an interesting one. The infantry would certainly look very similar, in fact more contemporary with the available figures and the cavalry are certainly catered for with the MAA boxed set = job done! it might take a little while to gather some information about the nobles who went on that campaign but it's part of the fun, I might even be able to help with some of the standards if you do find out which nobles went.

      Let me know how you get on.

      Stuart

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  6. Very nice unit, and a wonderful flag!

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