Sir Walter Blount and his mounted companions

So here we are with my next unit, the project is coming along quite nicely, I've finished two units, the first was the mounted archers, which I've now decided to keep as a unit of 6 and the new unit which is what I shall be sharing today. These are 9 heavier cavalry, in the retinue of Sir Walter Blount, there are two knights in full plate armour, the main man Sir Walter, who I have depicted with slightly fancier armour, and also his ageing father, Sir Thomas Blount whom I have chosen to have plainer armour, perhaps representing older armour used in an earlier war and brought out again. I've given the retainers a mix of weaponry and armour as well as different coloured coats and clothes, just to keep things fresh, hopefully at some point in the near future I will be ordering a set of Banners to go on a couple of the lances/spears! I will next be working on a unit of Burgundian mercenaries which I have already started, a pike block to start with but eventually more, probably some burgundian cavalry at some point, both light and heavy. I have also turned my hand to a bit of conversion work, which I will probably feature in my next post. I have realised as writing this post that I missed some moulded on grass tufts, I will sort this later on so that i do not delay this post any further! 

The Full 9 assembled

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.