'Mercenary' from PaulSS: Routiers

Routiers were mercenary soldiers during the Hundred Years War and this Wikipedia article covers these troops with a good overview.

This group of mercenaries is made up from the new Perry Miniatures Agincourt Mounted Knights 1415-29 set released just a few weeks ago. As I was ordering directly from them I took note that although the box only contains 12 horses there are enough parts for 18 riders so I picked up a couple of extra frames of horses.

As with all the Perry Miniatures plastic sets they are really well done with plenty of options. The rider frame has plenty of men at arms in jupons and tabards etc. but there are also a couple of bodies to allow you to make lighter armed troops in hauberks as I did with the fellow with the blue over yellow shield.

I had planned originally to only get three of these done for the bonus round, but the harsh polar vortex kept me home most evenings this week so I was able to crack on and get the whole unit of siz done.

The variety of components in the set mean that you can have a lot of options on the horse armour, from just a simple chanfron, then adding criniere, peytral right up to mail flanchards (none of these in this batch, but there shall be some in the next).

The only thing not included is any caparisons and I must admit not having to paint heraldry on them is a bonus.

Here are a couple of close-ups, the camera was not doing so well this morning.