I've had a fairly hectic few weeks lately with little room for painting but I have managed to find some time here and there to slowly put together a second command group for my Tudor army.
This trio represents George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, commander of the foreward during the 1513 campaign in France.
Just as the stand I put together to represent Henry VIII this has been a very challenging job with a fair amount of intricate painting which is sometimes obscured (unless you see them in the flesh) once they're all based so I thought i'd take a few photographs to give you a decent preview prior to the finished article.
I painted the figures in the order they are here. Starting with the herald, which I considered to be the easiest.....24 lions passant later I was ready for a break!
This is a Perry WOTR figure which I toyed with doing a headswap but decided not to bother in the end as this line is a little more slender than the figures they did for Wargames Foundry.
The standard bearer was fairly straight forward, I gave him a headswap with another cavalry figure and painted his skirt in the Talbot livery of red and black combined with the red cross of St. George (this is shown on a few sources depicting English knights of this period). The Flag was fairly straightforward albeit quite time consuming, i'm pleased with it though.
Finally, the Earl himself; I swapped his baton for a war hammer and painted him in a colourful blue and yellow garb (part of his heraldry) and opted to go for the black and red livery colours for the horse armour. I looked at a lot of sources for the cloth covering depicted upon horse armour of the period and found most to be very intricate. The floral roses I finally settled upon are taken from a wallpaper sample, in fact, that's my big tip for painting renaissance caparison armour, just look up 'black and white floral wallpaper / stencil designs' in google images or scour home decorating websites - i've printed off quite a few for future reference.
The Earl was a knight of the garter so I decided to show this on the armour also.
I shall take my time basing these three and hopefully will have a final finished piece by the end of the week.
Enjoy!
Stuart
This trio represents George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, commander of the foreward during the 1513 campaign in France.
Just as the stand I put together to represent Henry VIII this has been a very challenging job with a fair amount of intricate painting which is sometimes obscured (unless you see them in the flesh) once they're all based so I thought i'd take a few photographs to give you a decent preview prior to the finished article.
I painted the figures in the order they are here. Starting with the herald, which I considered to be the easiest.....24 lions passant later I was ready for a break!
This is a Perry WOTR figure which I toyed with doing a headswap but decided not to bother in the end as this line is a little more slender than the figures they did for Wargames Foundry.
The standard bearer was fairly straight forward, I gave him a headswap with another cavalry figure and painted his skirt in the Talbot livery of red and black combined with the red cross of St. George (this is shown on a few sources depicting English knights of this period). The Flag was fairly straightforward albeit quite time consuming, i'm pleased with it though.
Finally, the Earl himself; I swapped his baton for a war hammer and painted him in a colourful blue and yellow garb (part of his heraldry) and opted to go for the black and red livery colours for the horse armour. I looked at a lot of sources for the cloth covering depicted upon horse armour of the period and found most to be very intricate. The floral roses I finally settled upon are taken from a wallpaper sample, in fact, that's my big tip for painting renaissance caparison armour, just look up 'black and white floral wallpaper / stencil designs' in google images or scour home decorating websites - i've printed off quite a few for future reference.
The Earl was a knight of the garter so I decided to show this on the armour also.
I shall take my time basing these three and hopefully will have a final finished piece by the end of the week.
Enjoy!
Stuart
Intelligens!
ReplyDeleteWonderful painting & detail!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant.....you are an inspiration Stuart!
ReplyDeletecheers
Field Marshal
exellent! your a very good painter i love the attention to detail, you painting style is quite similar to mine too
ReplyDeletei was thinking about your difficulty in finding dismounted renaissance men at arms and i may be able to make one soon a cant promise at the moment but i would love to do one or two as i love the plate armour from this period
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