David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Command Stands #s 1 & 2

When I started out on this small project earlier in the year I envisaged all the command stands on rectangular bases, as I hope  you will have seen with those of Edward IV and Henry VI earlier on. When it came to Command stands for the other two Wards in the armies I tried keeping the same base width but reducing the depth. Unfortunately  the figure compositions just didn't look right to my eye, so here we are back on 60mm round bases for the first two stands!

First to be completed for the Yorkist faction is Warwick, the Kingmaker. The figures are all from the Perry Miniatures range of metal figures.
Warwick himself is mounted, supported by his banner bearer  carrying his Personal Heraldic banner - from Pete'sFlags, and two foot knights or MAA.
First for the Lancastrian faction we have five figures on foot representing Buckingham and his entourage.
The man himself is supported by his personal Heraldic Banner bearer - banner made as a free download by Ray Rousell I believe, a Foot Knight and two MAA. Again they are all from the Perry Miniatures range of metal figures. 
I have figures for two more Command stands, Norfolk for the Yorkist faction and  Oxford for the Lancastrians. I'd hope to have both stands finished by the weekend all being well, though their flag sheets are currently in transit. After these are completed I have prepared the  Claymore Castings archers, those Matt sculpted for them, to represent archers from the Commons.


6 comments:

  1. Your command stands look great! I did not comment on your earlier post about having your army out on maneuvers but am intrigued by your one base per troop type scheme.

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    1. Thank you Jonathan. Since I paint both sides for almost all the collections here in GHQ I'm not really tied to any basing convention. If unit A targets unit B it doesn't matter if bases are 80mm or 160mm wide, the result is still the same. One base per troops type is the logical way to go for me. Games get bigger, quicker and painting boredom is lessened - especially archers!!!! The games play out the same we've found with Black Powder & Hail Ceasar and you get the added visual bonus of mini dioramas or vignettes on your bases.

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  2. Lovely work sir, very nice command stands and the round base works well in my opinion.

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    1. Very kind of you to pop by and endorse my efforts, much appreciated Donnie.

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