"Edward is at hand, and he is ready to fight!"

While I was waiting for my delivery from Eureka Miniatures and Perry Miniatures [more on this later, I promise] rather than sit twiddling my thumbs I set about painting several figures for an Army Command Stand for the Yorkist faction. As they are finished now I rather hoped you'd enjoy seeing what I made of them. There are four mounted figures of which Edward is the central character. He is flanked by two mounted MAA, one carrying his personal Standard and the other an heraldic Banner. The group is completed by a mounted Herald dressed in Edward's livery to the rear ~

The figures are all from Perry Miniatures,  the Standard and Banner from Pete's Flags and the base from, you guessed it, Warbases! Buoyed by a generally positive response to my earlier effort at heraldry I have attempted to suggest two 'Sun in Splendour" badges on the Herald's tabard. Not likely to win any prizes, but there you go!

Anyway, as promised a few words on my recent mail order experiences. I placed two orders via their web shops on the same day, paying by PayPal, one to Eureka Miniatures and one to Perry Miniatures, both for almost identical amounts. Firstly the P&P charges, almost £2.00 more for Perry Miniatures! Then a slight delay in responses but both confirmed completed the same day. Then the seemingly interminable waiting for Royal Mail to deliver! My Eureka Miniatures order was delivered on Monday afternoon this week, a turnaround time of nine days! As I write this no news or sign of the Perry Miniatures order yet. Perhaps someone is bringing it on foot from Nottingham? After chatting with our local postman on Wednesday he confirmed that the delay suggests the issue is with the sender, so I emailed them. I got a very prompt response from Alan to say the order was delayed while awaiting one item. It might have been good customer service if someone had bothered to tell me... Alan assured me the package would be despatched that same day...we shall see.