Hello, I'm back again with a couple of newly finished miniatures from Footsore's The Baron's War 28mm range: Henry de Beaumont, 5th earl of Warwick, and Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester and Chief Justiciar of England from 1213 to c.1215. De Beaumont was a commander in King John's royal army (and my nearest local lord), and des Roches was one of the most important and influential men in both John and his son Henry III's governments. Both men fought for the infant Henry III's cause at the Second Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
I've really enjoyed painting these two over the past week. The sculpts are just wonderful, there's so much crisp detail and being of baronial/episcopal class they are a great canvas for some bright bold colours. The prominent fabric elements on both figures provided me with a great opportunity to work on my shading and highlighting, and I'm pleased with the results. I also got to try out the shield decals from Citadel Six for the first time and I'm very impressed with them, as someone with relatively poor coordination I didn't find them too fiddly as long as I took my time and had all my tools near to hand before starting the process. I did cock up the bishop of Winchester's shield and had to remove it, but thankfully Suzanne at Citadel Six very kindly sent me some replacements and I got it on with no futher trouble second time round.
