War of the Roses ~ Re-Basing and New Troops

As mentioned in my previous post I took a lot of time out to rebase a whole bunch of figures. Part of this included re-basing all of my Lancastrians for Never Mind the Billhooks. This came about because I originally based my army for Hail Caesar but everyone at my club uses Billhooks for WotR's, so I decided to conform. Whilst I was at it I also took the time to make a whole bunch of sabot bases.

In doing this re-basing the units in my army grew in number because each unit went from 15/16 figures to 12 figures. I originally had 14 units - bill & bow, dismounted knights, pike, plus handgonners and mounted knights. This has now grown to 20 units with the inclusion of the new unit of Hobilars below.

My Henry VI and the Margret of Anjou bases are not really command bases for purposes of Billhooks they are more like vignettes to add a bit of colour and interest to the proceedings and to show the possible position of the monarch.

Because my bill and bow units had more archers than billmen I ran into a bit of a problem with filling out the units. I had the option of painting more figures or just amalgamating units. In the main I decided to amalgamate, although I did need to paint up about half a dozen figures to fill up some gaps.

Then there's these fellows below: They're left overs. I can't let them go to waste and I still have plenty of figures still on the sprue so I think they might be the starting point of a potential Yorkist army. 

Last but not least is my newest addition to my Lancastrians (most likely the last unit to be added). So here we have some Hobilars - Light Horse. Sometimes known as Prickers. This type of cavalry are very useful for getting in the enemy's flanks and rear areas by with their ability to move with flexibility. Once again the figures are Perry Miniatures from their WotR's plastic range.

I could have painted them with pretty subdued colours but I decided to paint them in a variety of panoply based on the retinues I already have. They came out pretty nice and add more colour to a pretty colourful army.

And that's it for now!

Bye.

S'Been a Long Time Since I Rock and Rolled

"S'been a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time. 

It sure has..."

Yes It has been a long time since I last posted anything. There are a couple of reasons for this but the main reason is that I lost my wargaming mojo somewhere along the line. I started out on two re-basing projects that saw me rebasing about 400+ elves and goblins from multi-bases onto single 25mm round bases and about 200 Wars of the Roses figures from multi-bases to 20mm squares. Then, when I was finished, I just lost interest. 

There are a couple of reasons for this. I started falling out of love with WWII wargaming. This was where I started this hobby way back in 1975 with Bruce Quarrie's Airfix Guide No:15. This came as a bit of a blow and really knocked the wind out of my sails. It's also my opinion that the wargaming club that I've been a member of for the past 20 odd years has been managed like some sort corporate entity for the past 12 months. I don't like this. It makes me want to stay away. There seems to be no heart anymore and it doesn't feel like the club I liked being a part of. It's just a place to set up a table now. I find that sad and I can't be bothered.

So that's reason #1. The other reason is detailed below.

However, In the past couple of weeks I started doing some conversions with some plastic kits and came up with two new units. Here they are:

Light infantry elves with javelins. They are from the Light Elf Infantry box from Oathmark. The javelin hands and shields are from the Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irish box. They came out pretty nicely. I only did one unit of 12. I do have another unit of armed the same but with a different colour scheme so these guys will go well with them.

Next is a unit of undead archers. These are Oathmark Revenants with bows from the Wargames Atlantic Goblins box. The right arms are from the same set but I also used some hands from the Oathmark Orc set (the hands holding arrows). I think their quivers also came from the Oathmark Orcs box. I think these came out really well and, if I have enough parts, I might make another unit of these chaps. 

And here's the #2 reason my me not posting as often as normal:

I've been putting a fair bit of my time and energy into playing music. I've been in a band for quite a while but I also got together with my old school friends that I first started playing music with over 40 years ago. We have a new band called 40 Years Later... So I'm in two bands currently. I've also been recording a bunch of worship songs for a cd release sometime in the new year. So music has been taking up a lot of space in my life.

Here's my band Old Tin Shed playing a gig in the coastal town of Wonthaggi in Victoria. And yes... I need a haircut.
Also, click hers and have a look: Old Tin Shed

So there you have it. I'm currently painting some hobelars for my Lancastrian army so I'm sort of getting my mojo back, or at least I'm trying to maintain a minimum level of productivity to help keep my wargaming spirits up.