PanzerKaput Goes To Barons' War
Stanley Hotoft of Humerstan and William de Huntingfield
Stanley Hotoft of Humerstan, in the white ermine, and William de Huntingfield, in the yellowHere is Stanley Hotoft of Humerstan, in the white ermine, and William de Huntingfield, in the yellow and I am chuffed with the way they have turned out. I am truly loving this period, doing the research and paint the heraldry and enjoying it.
Stanley Hotoft of Humerstan is not really based on a real person and the heraldry is not based on a real heraldry, he is actually based on my wife’s childhood toy, I flat knitted mule called Flat Muffin. I have based the heraldry on the mule, horse actually and the colours because Flat Muffin is white.
William of Huntingfield was a medieval English baron, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and one of the Magna Carta sureties. He held Dover Castle for King John from September 1203 (as a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports) and in exchange, the king took his son and daughter hostage. He was granted the lands seized from his disgraced brother and appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1210 and 1211. In the First Barons’ War he was an active rebel against King John and one of the twenty-five chosen to oversee the observance of the resulting Magna Carta. He subsequently supported the French invasion of England, and took part in the Fifth Crusade, where he died.
This now bring me to 75 painted, 11 mounted but it still means that I have another 60 to paint including 16 mounted. Also I think I am going to get the Fortified Manor, The Dark Age Fort Bundle from Sarissa Precision for the game too, if it looks right, which I think it does.
Good job with the yellow – the horse curtains look great.
Thanks there @scribbs and yellow was a colour I used to fear but now I think I have it