War of the Roses Infantry Batch 2

 Second batch of Billmen and Archers

War of the Roses Infantry Batch 1

 I got a box of 40 War of the Roses era English infantry back in April.   I assembled them all this past week and on Saturday I painted the first 6 Billmen at the Adventurer's Academy, and then painted the first 6 archers this morning.

Wooden Watch Tower

 Assembled and painted a wooden watch tower  I had gotten back in April

Carolingian Swordsmen, group 2

 Here are the other 4, the second half of the Carolingian Swordsmen I got a few months back.   I must have been thinking of these 4 when I remembered not liking the casts.   These are the 4 without mail shirts and they look generally worse all around.   In fact, 2 showed up with their swords broken off and I had to improvise something.   The one I attached a dragon-standard (from a Late Roman set I'd gotten years ago).  They still used these in Carolingian times I seem to remember).   The other one I found a war-hammer on a plastic sprue from another set (I might have just been a piece of sprue that kinda looked like a war-hammer, but it worked).  

After I took these pictures, I noticed up close how bad the paint job actually was.   I had added a sepia wash, but it caused a lot of areas to run, and left big dark spots and muddied things up too much.  So, I did another touch-up.   I didn't want to go crazy, since the figures will probably end up being used for bandits and henchmen more than likely.

Carolingian Swordsmen

 It's been a while.   Finally, since I got the basement back in order in advance of last night's in-person game.  I got some painting done last night.   Here' are 4 Carolingian (Age of Charlemagne) swordsmen.  I didn't really like the sculpts when I got them, but now that they're painted, I'm much happier with them.