Painted Cavalry for Blore Heath at Triples

[Ruarigh]

As part of our Rather Large Towton Project, we shall be putting on a small game of Blore Heath at Triples in April. Please come along and say hello if you are there. The Lancastrian army at Blore Heath had a cavalry wing and Blore Heath was one of the few Wars of the Roses battles to feature this much cavalry (the only one?) so it is fun to play it out. Here we see the whole of the cavalry wing for our game. Click the pictures for large images.


Here are the knights on their own:


And here are the armoured cavalry without the knights:


There is more on The Rather Large Towton Project blog, if you have not checked it out yet:
http://towton-2011.blogspot.com/

I hope this is of interest.

Cheers,
Ruarigh

[Atheling]

Really lovely stuff.

Have you given much thought as to the surface you will be playing on?

Darrell.

[Ruarigh]

We are in the process of building the terrain for the battle on three 4x2 boards for a 6x4 table. My friend, Steve, has plotted the contours of the area in CAD and we are attempting to transfer that to the boards for the basic surface. Other features will be added as needed based on the admittedly limited resources we currently have at our disposal. Hopefully it should at the very least vaguely resemble the original battlefield! The troops will not, because they are all from the pool of troops we are building up for Towton and will be those that we have already painted. Don't tell anyone though, please. They might not notice!!

If you have any advice or ideas that we could use, it is not too late to suggest them, and they would be gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Ruarigh

[Atheling]

The troops will not, because they are all from the pool of troops we are building up for Towton and will be those that we have already painted. Don't tell anyone though, please. They might not notice!!

I'll be certain to make sure I stay stum .

If you have any advice or ideas that we could use, it is not too late to suggest them, and they would be gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Ruarigh

If you take a look at the following pages of The Paintingshed blog, where Steve Jones has done a great job in creating a textured surface that is really appealing. To be fair, he has done this for Napoleonics where the actual surface of the terrain would represent a much larger acreage than that of a medival battle- still, the idea is a good one and may be usefull?

Darrell.

[Ruarigh]

Thanks, I shall check out the paintingshed later when I have time.

Cheers,
Ruarigh

[Atheling]

Thanks, I shall check out the paintingshed later when I have time.

Cheers,
Ruarigh

No probs. I'd be interested in hearing what you think.

Darrell.