Prepare to be underwhelmed - Formigny project

 Hi All,

I've been dragging me feet on many things, but I do have progress of a sort.

The gaps are all  green stuffed and I just have to put extra swords and visors on the knights.

I've also primed the first twelve archers.

I know, grey primer on grey plastic. Woo hoo! Of course I noticed one right arm I forgot to putty.

I also realized after priming these that none of these guys got swords. Perry shows a sword in the instructions, but I don't think there are enough swords for everybody. I feel like these guys would not be universally armed with swords so I'll scatter a few throughout the units as I build more. I have another 16 archer torsos cleaned.

Fantastic Legions will probably not be impressed with my progress, but it is what it is. (P.S. I'm going to try putting hyperlinks in bold since this template only shows them when they are moused over.

Anyway. Have a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate and happy hobbying.

Return of Mojo - Formigny project

 Hi All,

Well, suffice it to say I had a rough Summer and my mojo for life in general was just not there for many months.

I had been planning to do a late Hundred Years War project with Fantastic Legions and playtest some rules, but after buying a bunch a figures all this real life stuff happened and I just pretty much went into "I can accomplish one thing per day" mode. Unfortunately that one thing wasn't hobby for quite awhile.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic Legions sent me a link to putting on a game at Desert Wars in March 2022. He suggested Formigny in which two French Armies linked up to defeat an English expeditionary force and hastened the fall of English Normandy.

It has a little bit of everything. English longbows ravaging the French. French canons wreaking havoc and a final French cavalry charge. As well as the linking of two forces to combat the defending English.

So if you want to read about it there is a decent article here.

There are also a couple of interesting youtube videos about the battle. This one by Kings and Generals (23minutes) and this other one by Schwerpunkt (2.5 hours). 

So it looks like I'll be making up about 8 units, 4-5 of them bowmen.

The English leaders were:

Thomas Kyriell

By Rs-nourse - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29263362

Matthew Gough

There is no opensource heraldry for him but a common theme is three boars or boars heads on blue or white field. 

Robert (De) Vere

By Newm30 - The Notebook of Tristram Risdon 1608-1628, James Dallas, Henry G. Porter, London 1897. p. 106., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76419312

Henry Norbury 

By Lobsterthermidor (talk) 14:14, 28 February 2020 (UTC) - Own work, using bull element modified from commons File:Urdorf-blazon.svg by User:Gerhard Bräunlich, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87533580

I'm thinking of adding the coats of arms of Bayeux, Caen and Vire as well, since the garrisons were pulled from those towns to battle Jean de Bourbon the Comte de Clermont at the time.

Anyway, lots of work to do. I've been dragging my feet while Fantastic legions has been putting out some lovely units.

Hope your hobby is going well.

Paint em if you got em.