BOOOOOM!!!!!

When I bought the first Perry Miniatures for this project from Dave Thomas at WMMS this year I misread my list (teachers' handwriting second only to Drs'!) As Phil bagged the boxes and blisters for me I never noticed my error at the time. Back from WMMS and gloating over my haul I was somewhat taken aback when the gun and crew I thought I had selected turned out to be the large Bombard set!!! I'd no plan for it obviously so it went into the Lead Pimple to be conveniently forgotten. Fast forward to August and I'd finally run out of any other foot figures to paint, Phil has the horse at present for the Knights/MAA, so I was forced into cleaning and spray undercoating the parts and figures.

I have to say right off that contrary to my previous experiences with Perry Minitures' kits needing assembly it went together really well. I decided to fix the Bombard and mantlet to a Perry base for ease of painting only to discover I had no 3mm base large enough. The solution was to have the business part of the gun and mantlet on the longest base I had and the wooden blocking pieces on a smaller separate base. For my money it seems to have worked out fine.

The set was missing a figure I discovered, but no issue as it was not one of the three necessary action poses. I've added the Eureka Miniatures 'Master Gunner' to give the set a more distinctive appearance. Enough blathering on anyway, see what you make of it ~

Next in line are the few mounted Knights and MAA, for which Phil is painting the horses and yours truly the figures. There are also the two Army Command bases, which I'm still undecided about in terms of figures and composition for the Yorkist faction, though that of Henry VI is decided and already underway.