"Warwick... proud setter up and puller down of kings."

Despite the lingering after effects of last week's lurgy I have finished the first of two planned Retinues bearing Warwick's colours.  The figures are a mixture of Eureka Miniatures and Perry Miniatures - both from their Wars of the Roses and European ranges. The standard and banner are from Pete's Flags and the bases from Warbases as ever. My regular reader has no doubt noticed by now that none of my figures in livery bear any heraldic badges. It's been a conscious decision on my part as neither hand nor eye are up to such extensive fine detail and decals are sadly a very limited range. I'm hoping that at 75 folk will be kindly disposed to cut me some slack there and turn the proverbial blind eye!

The Eureka Miniatures archers you will have seen many times before in other of the Retinues I've featured as the project has moved forward, with the Perry Miniatures billmen coming as I mentioned from their European armies range. I thought that given Warwick's association with Calais and its garrison it was quite reasonable to assume his forces might evidence a more continental look around the edges. Anyway. As a preview here are my Yorkists posing before Blandings Castle, home of Earl Emsworth's ancestors you may recall ~

With this retinue completed there is a clear sight of the finishing line for the foot part of the project ~ one retinue, one MAA and two bases of mercenary crossbowmen are prepped, spray undercoated and in the painting queue atop my desk. I would hope {DV} to have managed all of those by the end of the month. Then it should be on to the far smaller mounted element and finally the main Command stands for both armies.