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Never Mind The Billhooks Deluxe.
When I first saw the artwork for this I wanted to recreate it in miniature. The art shows a unit of Burgundian Knights charging into a Swiss infantry unit. I wanted to alter it to fit my own Richard III at Bosworth project. I swapped the Knights out for Richard and his retinue Knights. He can be seen in the front row just about to spear an unfortunate billman. His personal banner bearer Sir Percival Thirlwall is also in the front rank. The charge was instigated when Richard spotted Henry Tudor and his retinue in an isolated position on the battlefield. In reality a formed unit of heavy billmen in front of Henry would have dissuaded Richard from making his ill fated charge. To make the ‘history’ work in my head I imagined that a small unit of bills and men at arms have managed to come between Richard and his prize.
To get this to work I had to add a few things (or skills) to my collection. This included the teddy bear mat I described earlier, more trees ( more about this later) and to raise my game in the photograph department ( see my previous article). One of the most difficult things was to get the angle of the photograph correct so that it would mirror the original painting.
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