This is quite a long post with only one picture. It chronicles how a
small rebasing and re-flagging project mushroomed into a major piece of work.
Many of you will have experience of similar projects and may recognise
the "mistakes" I've made and issues I've tackled.
The Story So Far
In early January I began what I thought would be a small project: rebasing
some of my Wars of the Roses archer command bases. At first I had a few
issues with
removing figures from the bases but eventual settled on a simple enough
method.
Fully aware that this sort of thing can get out of hand I finished
six bases by the end of the month
complete with new
laser printed livery flags.
I limited myself to:
"In addition to rebasing I .. repainted [just] the faces and most of the legs
and shoes as they were damaged during removal from the original bases.
Wherever possible I kept as much of the original paintwork as I could; it's
over twenty years old after all."
A Step Too Far?
Next I decided to convert some of my (three to a base) levy archers to regular
(four to a base) archers so more re-basing and touching up old paintwork.
The logic behind this was simple. When done I would have three,
easily distinguishable, types of late medieval archers: retinue
(superior/elite), regular (ordinary), and levy (irregular).
This is when things started to go awry.