Richard Woodville, Lord Rivers

Just when you thought that you were safe...along comes yet another base of mounted knights/MAA! As my hand has been improving by resting from painting over the festive period I've since been trying very short sessions of 10-15 minutes once or twice a day. I was helped by the fact that I had started these three figures before Christmas struck, so its mainly been wielding the Brush of Doom on highlighting base colours. The figures are from Perry Miniatures, the Heraldic Banner from Freezywater Publications, and the base from Warbases! See what you make of these ~

I'm just left now with three mounted figures from Aly's kind recent gift: Richard III, his Standard Bearer Sir Percival Thirwall, and a Herald. These six pieces will take longer I fear as I'm starting them from scratch. As an added complication there is the matter of adequately suggesting the Royal Coat of Arms worn by the Herald! These may be a while then...

In the meantime I've been glancing through the Lead Pimplette as I must label it now, only to discover, well, not a great deal in truth. I guess I must have been rather fixated on the Wars of the Roses project! There is a unit of 12 Foundry Roosian Cossacks for the Crimean War project, assorted Eureka Miniatures for the FRW collection, some Aventine skirmishing Light Infantry for the Punic Wars, together with some Heavy Cavalry and a General. Nothing though is cleaned up and spray undercoated and I doubt the hand can handle the former at present, nor the winter weather the latter! Worse still, I don't really feel up to tackling any of those, but nor as I said do I have even a vague aspiration for anything else right now...