"Fight, gentlemen of England!"

Otherwise the first bases of mounted Knights/MAA to be added to the project! These first two of a planned and purchased eight bases of three figures represent respectively the Households of Henry VI and Edward IV.  They can be used either with other mounted bases to form part of a Ward or added to the Army Command stand, to give it an ever so slightly more substantial fighting appearance on the tabletop battlefield here in GHQ in the case of the Henry VI Command base. The figures are all from Perry Miniatures, the Banners are from Pete's Flags, and the bases from Warbases ~

For the mounted Knights/MAA bases Phil kindly volunteered to paint the horses for me, leaving yours truly to paint the human figures. I have chosen to replace the Standard/Banner shafts and lances provided with the figures by metal spears and pikes, cut down to size, from Pendraken. I came to this decision based on experience with our Italian Wars projects where we found that the lances were a weak point on figures being moved around the tabletop battlefield, being prone to bending and possibly risking them snapping off above the hand grip.

Enlarged Lancastrian Army Command by the addition of the extra base of MAA in front of the main base.

Similarly with the Yorkist Army Command Stand, enlarged by adding the extra base of MAA in the rear of the main base in this instance. The bonus in both cases is more Banners used up!

Hopefully I will have more to add to these bases in the next few days as Phil tells me he is progressing well with the next tranche of horses! In the meantime I've cleaned up and spray undercoated my small Eureka Miniatures order to fill in on the painting desk while I wait. So far I've completed three of four figures for a Retinue command base representing John de la Pole. Next up will be a base of Archers for him to command! In the meantime and despite assurances, still no sighting of my Perry Miniatures order...