'Resistance' by Barks: Merry Men

You will recall my very first AHPC post, for the AHPC VI 'Nostalgia' theme round. For some very meta theme nostalgia, I'm revisiting the subject ten years later.

These Merry Men are from Slave 2 Gaming. I did them quickly with Speedpaints, and they came out OK in the end. Absolution Green, Forest Sprite, Pallid Bone, Hardened Leather and Satchel Brown were staples, with a few other greens and browns for variety.

I asked the Antipodean chat what colour Maid Marion's dress should be, and blue was the answer. I painted Will Scarlet scarlet, but it's the sculpt for Alan-a-Dale with a lute on his back.

I also found the missing Bretonnian squire, and did a quick paint job on him. I really should have spent time doing highlights, he's a lovely Perry sculpt. Maybe later. You can buy these figures again now, $A15 each...

20x figures resisting the tyranny of King John, 100 points

+ 50 for the theme

'Resistance' from DallasE: 28mm Plains Warriors

 

OK, taking a break from the grimdark to return to the project I SHOULD be working on, and that's the models needed for the Little Bighorn game I have planned for later this year. I have MORE than enough models from the Foundry, I just have to get paint on them.

The models here are a mix of packs - some from the Young Bloods, and some from the Dog Soldiers packs. Above L to R we have Bear Licks With Tongue, Three Fingers, and Wolf Looks Back.

Here are Running Rabbit, Goes Walking, and Little Crow. As you can see from the photos these models are all characters and don't really lend themselves to "assembly line" painting like the Seventh Cavalry models do. But I did the skintones the same on all of them - GW Doombull Brown highlighted with Ratskin Flesh. I hate the name of that paint but I think it gives a good Indigenous fleshtone.

Lastly we've got Pawnee Killer, Touch the Sky, and Plenty Coups. I did put warpaint on a few of the models but I may go back and do a few more as I like the look. As for the theme - Resistance - I think these models are spot on. If you know anything about the Plains Wars you know they were wars of resistance by Indigenous people against white military action and settlement. The apex of the resistance was of course the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where a coalition of Indigenous warriors wiped out - to a man - five companies of the US Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer (often referred to - incorrectly - as "General Custer" owing to his holding the rank of brevet brigadier-general in the Civil War).

Well there's the first bunch of Plains Warriors done. Only about 40 or 50 more to go...? Shouldn't be a problem this summer as long as I can stay away from Khornate distractions. We'll see.

Points:

9x 28mm infantry = 45 points

Resistance bonus = 50 points

Total = 95 points

Cheers,

Dallas
 

'Resistance' from GregB: The Maid of Orleans

 

The Maid of Orleans sets forth, ready to rid France of English invaders! 28mm metal figure from Perry Miniatures.

For my "Resistance" theme I thought I would return to my halting 28mm Hundred Years' War project, for that setting holds one of Christendom's most enduring symbols of "Resistance". Here was have Jean la Pucelle, a.k.a The Maid of Orleans, known most widely in our modern era as Joan of Arc. This is a 28mm figure from Perry Miniatures' "Agincourt to Orleans" range. 

Reverse view of the sculpt.

When considering wargaming projects, the Hundred Years War offers so many awesome factors. Castles? Check. Kings? Check. Knights? Check. France? Check. Lots of opportunities for skirmish-type games? Check. There is so much to delve into. But this sort of historical subject is also quite intimidating, in that I really don't understand much about medieval heraldry, and the more I try to research it, the more confused I get. It's one thing to paint fantasy stuff, where you can just make stuff up, but in the historical setting I at least want to sort of TRY to get things right...

So my progress on this project has been really, really slow. On the plus side, you don't need hundreds of figures for a skirmish game. I'm about half-way toward a decent French force for "Never Mind The Billhooks".

Great sculpt by the Perrys (of course). 

I mentioned that the Hundred Years War has just so much to take in, and the story of Joan of Arc is a big part of that. I'm sure it is well known to Challengers, but this young maid, born in or about 1412 in north-eastern France, felt called by God to seek out the Dauphin, to promise to lift the seige of Orleans and then see him crowned in Rheims...it all seems and sounds delusional. And yet...it all came true! Subsequently captured by the Burgundians, handed over to the British, put on trial and burned at the stake in 1431, "rehabilitated" in 1455 her incredible story has resonated through the ages. Even today she remains a potent political and cultural symbol and competing political movements still seek to claim this aura for themselves.

Answering the call of God...

This Perry Miniatures sculpt is lovely, and since there seemed to be so many conflicting accounts of what she actually looked like, I just sort of improvised. The white horse seemed to be the best for a figure such as her, and I imagined the Dauphin and his Armangac supporters kitting her out with pretty nice "white" armour and horse furniture which variants of the blue colour in the arms of the House of Valois.  This might be...totally wrong? Who knows? 

Points-wise, this is a single 28mm mounted figure, good for 10 points. The "theme" bonus tops things up nicely to 60 points, I think. 

Anyway, great to be back painting in the Hundred Years War. I hope you enjoy the figure! 

'Resistance' by KerryT: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War

Morning, afternoon and evening all

I've had great fun again with this theme with as usual my initial plan growing bigger, out of proportion to the time I had left and as a result not as complete as I would have liked

Some years ago I printed and painted a Castle and buildings from The King & Country range by Printable scenery. Last year I signed up to their Throne & Ash Kickstarter and for the past few months have been busy printing. About 2 weeks ago, they released a model of a Barbican and this was to be the centre piece of my entry. Then my printer broke and I needed a new part. Fortunately this arrived on Monday, the lower level took nearly 2 days to print though. I managed to finish painting it this afternoon! Phew

The whole shebang from above

Ignore the mess in the background

As the first picture shows, I bought some STL files in the MMF sale and printed off a load of artillery, 2 siege towers (Northern Crusade Miniatures) and 2 traction trebuchets ( Reconquer Designs) and a Ram with crew ( Reconquer Designs). I also found some STL of infantry climbing ladders

 

I've set things up to look like an attack on a walled city with attacking elements being gunpowder artillery, Ballistas throwing rocks, a mine that has caused a wall to collapse and a Ram along with infantry attempting to scale the walls. Defenders have boiling oil and giant crossbow machines

Knock knock

The Barbican

These are not a kind of sheep

Looking down the walls

Atop the Earls Keep

Frying tonight

the destroyed Ram

The mine

Heavy Bombards

All those figures and pieces, along with the walls and towers apart from a small section on the right have been painted in the past 2-3 weeks. I couldn't resist adding some additional troops for effect though in the following photos

English infantry walking on ready to exploit any breakthrough

I, really not sure how to score all of this, particularly the terrain

Figure wise I have the following

2 Ballista & 15 Crew

8 guns/bombards & 24 Crew

5 Heavy crossbows (defense) and 10 crew

7 pots of oil and 6 crew

1 Ram & 6 crew

6 Barricades

1 Destroyed Ram

2 Siege towers

1 Mine/bit of terrain

25 infantry with ladders

In total

86 Foot @ 5 points = 430 points

8 artillery pieces @ 10 pints = 80

2 large ballista and 2 siege towers ( vehicles) 20 pints? = 80 points

Walls - 6 foot long and 15 cms high?

2 rams ? = 20 points

Various barricades and I don't think I can claim artillery for the pots of oil

Theme Bonus points 50

Around 660 points without what I've failed to count points for

Apologies, all a mad rush in the end to get it posted

I had hoped to get some infantry for the siege towers and crossbow defenders done but ran out of time!

1 Squirrel - 100YW English

Thanks for looking

Valleyboy