{"id":1772,"date":"2020-02-17T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2020-10-03T19:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T18:39:03","slug":"wars-of-the-roses-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/wars-of-the-roses-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wars of the Roses Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/wars-of-the-roses-infantry\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>I&#8217;ve finally made progress on my 15mm Wars of the Roses army. This is the first time since getting into Miniature Wargaming some 30 plus years ago that I have put together an historical army.<br \/>\nAs I mentioned in my previous post showing the Men at Arms I did not want this army to look like a set number of figures stuck on a base. I wanted an irregular rabble look to the units.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1770\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1770\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/wars-of-the-roses-infantry\/wotrbillmen\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?fit=1743%2C819&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1743,819\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1581778454&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WOTR Billmen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;15mm Wars of the Roses Billmen from Multiple Manufacturers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?fit=840%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1770\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wotrbillmen.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">15mm Wars of the Roses Billmen from Multiple Manufacturers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For my armies main infantry I looked at suitable 15mm miniatures from Lancashire Games, Irregular Miniatures, Museum Miniatures, Tin Soldier, Magister Militarium, Donnington, Miniature Figurines, Essex and Peter Pig.<br \/>\nFor the life of me I cannot remember all of the companies I finally settled on, I know for a fact I bought Peter Pig, Lancashire Games and Essex. But there are other manufacturers figures in the units.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really pleased with how they came out and think I got the rabble aspect quite well.<br \/>\nAnother bonus was cleaning up the figures and thinking I&#8217;d only done enough for 4 bases of 16 figures per base. But when it came to undercoating them I found I had enough for 6 bases, result!<\/p>\n<p>Now onto the Cavalry and Archers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally made progress on my 15mm Wars of the Roses army. This is the first time since getting into Miniature Wargaming some 30 plus years ago that I have put together an historical army. As I mentioned in my previous post showing the Men at Arms I did not want this army to look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/wars-of-the-roses-infantry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wars of the Roses Infantry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,16,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medieval","category-modelling-and-painting-articles","category-wars-of-the-roses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-sA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}