Bannockburn Project (Pt1)

The start of two medieval armies. The plan is to use mainly Strelets/linear-b bods and build both the english and scottish armies before the 24th of June 2015, the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

The mounted Knights and welsh archers might prove a bit of a Problem but at least it´s one project I´ve got every chance of bringing to a close and on time :-D

How many bods will be painted? If I take the lowest number of troops that anyone reckons were there, 5000 for the Scottish side and 14,000 for the English, divide by 100 then 50 and 140. Doesn´t Sound a lot. eh? Ideas??

Bods used so far;

Foot Military Order Knights

Military Order Warriors

Medieval Levy 1

Medieval Levy 2

The result of the last couple of days, 13 Scottish and 7 English

The English troops are so far, getting a "uniform" colour scheme.....

...the scottish troops a more "General" mixed look.

The shields. I´m certainly not going to paint every Lion and Leopard on every shield so.....

Find the Patterns on the web (watch out for Copyright) copy and paste. The shields are 1.2 - 1.3 cms tall and 0.98 -1 cms wide. The flags I make 2.3 cms high and 2.6 cms wide.

Find a woodgrain pattern, copy, paste, reduce to "scale", copy and repeat until a full sheet is created.

Glue the front and back to a thin pece of card.........

.let dry, cut out, colour the cut edges with a felt tip and "shape" over a Piece of dowel or pen. To glue to the bods I use Pattex 100.  It´s thicker than most superglues, has no thinners and it drys a bit like Silicon, which gives a slightly flexible final bond which is good when the bods get dropped or knocked.