The Beginning

  So Here starts a Project. The point of this blog is quite plainly to follow my progress as I build and paint a Yorkist army for the Wars of the Roses. I shall start with mainly focusing on the Battle of Towton, this was a Major Yorkist Victory and is a fairly well documented battle with regards to the participants. I have already begun by making and painting a few mounted archers with the Livery of Richard Neville Earl of Warwick.

Earl of Warwick's Mounted Archers

  I plan to do a couple more mounted archers to join these and either use them as a unit of 8 or two units of 4.  The miniatures are all Perry miniatures from the Light Cavalry set, some are slightly converted with parts from the wars of the roses infantry and also one of the horses has been reposed using wire and humbrol model filler so that it is reading up, the archer on the far right of the unit.    One of the reasons I've chosen to a project in this era is because I love the vast array of colours for different liveries, it helps me not to lose focus because when I get bored with painting one colour, I can just work on a different Lord's retinue. This has already happened, and I have actually already started on two more units, one a unit for Sir Walter Blount, and another of Burgundian Mercenaries, I don't there is any historical evidence of Burgundians at Towton, but as this is not a fixed army for that battle, I thought I'd do some because I liked the look of Perry European Mercenaries. Again with conversions to keep things interesting, although they will be shown in a different Post.    I will leave you with some more photos of individuals from the unit above! See you next time.