Three Weeks Painting & Basing
Well here it is as promised the blog update on my new Welsh army.
Lots of new troops painted for this project, most of which were in my lead mountain! Thankfully I do not have to paint up any archers as I already have these in my collection to use with other Feudal armies. The Welsh foot were generally unarmoured except for their dismounted cavalry they fought with a mix of long and short spears, swords, axes and some used shields whilst others didnt. It meant I could use what ever figures I had available either painted up in an old collection of DBA armies or just spare painted foot plus a load of newly painted figures. My painting style has greatly improved over the years but when you base up old figures to match new additions the painting differences don't notice as much once they are all under a new coat of varnish.
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| Essex Welsh Generals mixed figure codes |
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| Rear view of above |
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| Side view of above |
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| Essex Dismounted Welsh Generals mixed figure codes Saxons & others? |
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| Rear view of above |
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| Essex WA6 Welsh Uchelwyr Cavalry |
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| Shield side view of above |
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| Essex VA11 Dismounted Welsh Uchelwyr |
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| Essex MID22 Mounted Light Bowmen |
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| Essex mixed figure codes for Skirmishers |
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| Essex mixed figure codes with Minifigs Z301 in the centres as Welsh foot |
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| Essex mixed figure codes as Welsh foot |
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For those of you that were thinking I only built a Welsh army because I know they were going to become Irr BW S with the publication of the DBMM v2 army lists I started this army before June 2015 and I already had the Archers painted in my collection for years before this. I just added in the last missing elements of Ax X and Cv O/Bd O to finally put it on the tabletop.
ReplyDeleteTournament experience showed that the DBMM classification of Welsh and other English Archers as Irr Bw S was a huge mistake in DBM. The UK Collective have reverted them back to Irr Bw O in most cases which means that the army is now properly balanced back to where it should be for DBM.
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