Painting the Wars of the Roses (WOTR) troops

07 April 2021

I am making great progress here. As you may know, I come from the "base them first and then paint them" school of heretical figure painting. So I began by basing them first before spraying them all brown.

I like brown horses and I can deal with the odd ones that are not brown individually. So here they all are, a uniform shade of brown.I also tend to apply a black wash to all my figures too. This washing helps with my failing eyesight to highlight what I need to paint. You can see this in practice here as the details are picked out ready to be painted.

Rather than go through the process of how I paint each base, I will just show you the finished figures and describe the process I used.

Here are the CinC’s (three figures per base) and the Commanders (two figures per base). I used Citadels Leadbelcher as the base for the armour as it’s a bit darker than silver and the process of painting them is easier. I then painted in the details around the armour and finally did the base and the flocking. This was all finished with Per’s Windsor and Newton Nut Brown wash.

The Earl of Salisbury

Lord Audley

Sir William Stanley

Lord Dudley

I then started to work on the Dismounted Men at Arms for each of the CinC’s. Using the same basic process as I applied to the Leader bases above. I began by blocking in the armour for the two bases and did the usual blackwash for highlighting the details - this included the bases, flock and the flags. I finally finished with Windsor and Newton's Nut Brown wash.

Salisbury’s dismounted Men at ArmsAudley’s dismounted Men at Arms

Finally, a change of pace so that I can paint some non-armoured soldiery. I blocked in the basic steel (Leadbelcher) around the wheels, bolts and barrel on the cannon. Again I finished off these with the old Windsor and Newton's Nut Brown wash.

Artillery

Ordinance