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Richard III and Retinue Knights. Bosworth 1485.
I have already showed one of the knights and Richard but I have now managed to complete the rest of the unit. Michael Perry has done a superb job with these and I used heads from several different Wars of the Roses plastic boxed sets, although there is more than enough variety even within the box to make every figure unique. I altered the charging lance arms on several to make more of them with couched lance and to make sure that these arms matched the armour sculpted on the torsos.
I painted the knights and horses separately to enable me to access details easier especially with the knights where I had to paint livery badges on their tabards. Richard’s royal coat of arms would have been impossible to do otherwise with the detail I wanted to portray. The only snag I found was that a lot of the bodies wouldn’t fit onto the horses because of the angle I had glued their swords scabbards on. This resulted in me having to remove them, refit them and tidy up where necessary. The flags are by the very talented Petes Flags.
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