Arab 'elite' archers completed, and some work on cavalry.

The Eastern army project is progressing very well. I almost managed to complete the elite archer unit during the paint and chat on Tabletop Commanders, finished them off on Saturday morning with flock and then sealed the flock, took the opportunity to flock and seal the bases of 12 cavalry horses too.

Painting completed on the chat.

Decided to give them red and black quivers too.

Built, washed and assembled twelve cavalry mounts.

Primed, painted black and washed with transparent ink.

Elite archers now complete and ready to join the army.

Flock applied and sealed.

Flocked and sealed the cavalry mounts too whilst I had the mixture on the go.

They will form two units of 'elite' heavy cavalry, so they get black horses.

Latex Road sections.

I received a package yesterday from a retailer on ebay, Fat Frank. He makes and sells various terrain but I was particularly interested in his latex, ready to use road sections in 6mm/10mm. He also does them for larger scales too. I bought a selection of sections, straights, curved and junctions.
I will certainly be going back to purchase the same again in 28 mm.

A 'T' section, even has wheel ruts in the dirt.

A close up of the road texture. Lots of dry brushing going on there as well as a really fine bead of grass along the edges.

A 'Y' junction.

Some of the sections laid out on the battle mat with a couple of wagons.

They look just the job and a perfect size.

My bases are 30 mm wide so fit a treat.

The next batch of Arabs underway, hopefully they will be completed on tonight's paint and chat with Tabletop Commanders. I am making these elite archers in the red and black colour scheme.

Project moving on and some new additions.

I have finally finished painting four units of light cavalry for my Wars of the Roses project. They seem to have been on my painting board for weeks. Which in fact they have, a combination of lovely weather, loss of painting mojo and general laziness. However, thanks to the Tabletop Commanders paint and chat sessions, the old enthusiasm has returned and I have at last finished them.

First up are a pair of light cavalry units for the lesser lords or mercenaries. They are painted in in a mixture of liveries.

Finally Ralph Lytton has a unit in his claret & blue colours.

As does Godfrey Howard in his colours of green & white.

With those completed, I moved onto the two pieces of artillery and crews. I managed to finish them off in a couple of sittings. They still need to be washed and based, but look fine.

Finally, readers of the blog will know, I ordered some boxes of Gripping Beast plastic Arab troops. They are for further down the painting queue, but I took out just a single sprue of five figures to paint up as test figures. One with a sword and two each of spear men and archers. I won't be basing these yet, as they will form part of units for Lion Rampant, Saga, L 'Art etc. on will end up on Renendra bases. I am pleased with how they turned out, again they still await their wash. I normally paint the arms and heads on the sprue, but on this occasion, I actually built the models first and then painted them, it worked well so I shall use that method again.

Next up will be two carts, one horse drawn and the other pulled by oxen. There are lots of metal pieces and so I will need to check the gallery on the Perry website to see how they fit together.