Bannockburn (Pt11)

Another stand of english infantry. This time they have "generic" coats-of-arms but the General colour scheme for thier clothes remains.
Sets used;
Army of Joan d'Arc
Army of Henry V
Medieval levy (1)
Medieval Levy (2)
Medieval crossbowmen

More conversions...The two in the centre have head swops..the bod on the left has had his spear removed,  a head and weapon swop. .

A couple of full contact pics

A couple of additions to the scottish side, The Standard bearer for Thomas Randolph, 1st earl of Moray, nephew to Robert the Bruce.

 James Douglas, Lord of Douglas and Walter Stewart 6th High Steward of Scotland

Dead Medievals

I could (if I had the Money to spare) get a load of dead from Ykreol, but then what to do with all the unusable or repeat pose bods? Battlefield scatter! :-D
This lot are all from different Strelets sets and will make casualty markers / "Decoration" for the Bannockburn battlefield.

Based. I´m using 6cm wide bases to fit alongside normal Impetus sizes.

Add some previous battlefield "scatter" (from the medieval casualties post) and a bit of ground cover to fill the gaps between the bases...


A crows eye view.

A Knight (Sir Cobbleweed) giving some protection to Geoffrey,  his wounded horse.

 

 

Sir William de Erth of Airth - Bannockburn (Pt10)

4 more mounted  kniggit types, all of whom died during the two days of the battle.
Sets used;
Medieval Britian (Edmund)
Crusader Transport 1 (Both Williams and sir Pain)
Army of Joan d'Arc (Earl of Erths´s horse)
English Cavalry of Edward I (De vescay´s horse)
Army of Henry V (Mauley and Tiptoft´s (1st)horses)

Sir William de Erth of Airth, in Charge of the scottish army´s  baggage Train. William was  killed during the night of the 23rd by David II Strathbogie, the Earl of Atholl in an attack at on the baggage train at  Cambuskenneth Abbey. His arms were White and black..not as it appears in the pic, Grey and black.

Edmund de Mauely. Lord of Ascot. Killed on the second day at Bannockburn

William de  Vescy of Kildare, (English) Retainer  (dependent or follower of someone of rank) to Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (the guy in Charge of the archers and savior of Edward II at Bannockburn) . Here it looks like he´s watching Henry de Bohun´s  failed attempt to take on Robert de Bruce and thinking "what the......!!!"

Sir Pain de Tiptoft (de Tybotot/de Tibetot) (English)
Also killed on the second day. Sir Pain (also Payne) got a head swop using a head (Zvezda) from the spares box . I´m not at all pleased with the nag and now I´ve got hold of a full set of  English Cavalry of Edward I  , I´m going to give him something  more fitting to sit on.............

.................like this :-D

In fact, at some point,  I´m going to re-mount Edmund and both  the Williams  onto barded nags. Even though there´s not really enough barded nags in the Strelets range it´s worth the extra bit of effort. The unbarded nags will get used for untiteled types, sergeant-at-arms etc

Scottish Cavalry - Bannockburn (Pt 9)

The cavaly commanded by Robert II Kieth,  Marischal of Scotland.
Most of them come from the Military Order Sergeants set, which has conveniently divided up into two halves, one half wearing the Kettle type helmet, who will end up as part of the english cavalry, the rest a mixture of headgear who ended up as the scottish cavalry.
The second stand withthe  flag bearer carrying the Saltire.  Historically correct? To be honest I´ve no idea but it serves to make it immediately recognisable as a stand of scottish cavalry.
Sets used;
Military Order Sergeants
English Cavalry of Edward I (unamed kniggit and his nag)
Army of Henry V (Kieth´s Standard bearers nag)
Medieval Britain (Kieths Standard bearer)

The whole force charging off to scatter the english archers



This guy..he Looks a bit of a kniggit type so I´ll have to dig up a Name for him.

The Scottish Forces so far.

A lot of People don´t like Strelets "chunky" style, and although this is true of some of thier sets it isn´t always the case.

Perrier catapult

A type of sling catapult called a Perrier.
Basically a large static version of the Fustibalus (staff sling) it has no counterweight, but relies on the Crew  to pull both down and back to launch the Missile, which makes it a traction operated weapon.
Perriers range from a small, one-person devices to ones pulled by many soldiers or even a team of horses. At any size the traction-powered Perrier was a quite effective weapon because it could be  reloaded and fired relatively quickly.
The only Definition I can find for the word Perrier is this one;
Per´ri`er

n.

1.

(Mil.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co

The Perrier is made from  balsawood, a cocktail stick and two pins,
The two Crewmen come from the Zvezda Medieval Heavy Bombard set.
Even though the device looks big, I reckon two would be enough if the arm was balanced correctly it would, even loaded, only need a small amount of force to get it moving.
I´ve left it looking a bit rough and ready, not cutting off the planks flush with the main Support Frame.

The sling is made from a bit of paper, the hook holding the release rope  made by softening the tip of the Cocktailstick in warm water, bending it adding a strip of paper and filling the gaps with PVA.

A couple of contemporary pics of Perrier´s

 Here´s a short Video of a  Perrier being demonstrated at the Tower of London.

 

They are powering it with 4 People, two..one at each side and the other two right under the arm!! This means they have to duck down to avoid being hit with the pulling end of the arm!!

Better to do it like this lot.

 

 

Bannockburn (pt8) English crossbows

They didn´t have a huge force of crossbowmen at Bannockburn so (according to any sources giving numbers of troop types) using the 50:1 Ratio  it works out to roughly 10 bods.
They are all from the Medieval crossbowmen set with head swops from other strelets sets or Accurate´s /Revell´s Hundred Years War English Men-At-Arms set.

 

The whole of the english army so far...still quite a few to get finished!

 



Wooden huts (Pegasus)

Two nice small buildings for a nice small price. Easy and quick to build, removable roofs, easy and quick  to paint, what more could I ask for?

With the bigger of the two houses I´ve added a fireplace and some printed wooden flooring.

The bigger house fits nicely alongside the houses made by Thorsten Burgdorf (which are available HERE )

The good thing about them is that they are usefull for a load of different scenarios and periods..like the new house that the DeWitt´s are moving into over at Bodstonia.

Austrian cuirassiers Regt. Nr 8 - Joined forces

At the FIGZ Meeting I picked up the Cuirassiers painted by Peter (Peter´s Cave) and now the Forces are joined (Setting them up helps mix the bods) There´s some really good close ups of the buglers/Standard bearers painted by Peter HERE

394 ....366 troopers, 15 officers, 10 buglers and 3 Standard bearers.

Are they ready to go and join thier comrades on the Croeburn dio? I think so :-D

Arial view

Bannockburn (Pt7) Maurice, Abbot of Inchaffray

Finally the next sheltron is completed.
Sets used;
Strelets Medieval crossbowmen
Strelets medieval Levy (1)
Strelets Medieval levy (2)
Medieval Britian
Crusader Transport (1)
Roman Port
As always with history, a problem has arisen. What coat of arms did Edward de Bruce wear on the day? Was it the one I´ve used, (in a lot of the Pictures protraying him at Bannockburn) or the Arms of the Earl of Carrick (Argent, Chevron Gules) ?

Éirinn go Brách!!

Cavalry view of the sheltron

Edward de Bruce



It bugged me so much that eventually I changed the Arms. I think, and it seems Logical, that only Robert de Bruce, being the C.i.C,  would have royal arms at the battle.........although I could be wrong.

Another of the Kneeling bods from the strelets Medieval crossbowmen set converted to a pikeman.

 

Maurice, Abbot of Inchaffray. He not only blessed the scottish troops at Bannockburn but apparently he had previously helped in the escape of  Robert de Bruce after the Battle of Methven in 1306.
The top half of Maurice Comes from the Crusader Transport (1) set and the bottom half from the Roman Port set.

Maurice Blessing the troops

And for a bit of fun. The Douglas/Stewart sheltron and De Bruces Sheltron accuse one another of drinking all the whisky...a fight ensues.
I´ve tried making the  basing so that the front rank is slightly back from the leading edge of the base and the tip of the spears a centimeter or two further from the leading edge so that it´s possible to have two base edges meet. Seems to work...so far.