Lord Hastings' Archers

The mud is applied with some grass and tufts. I added some more mud over the grass so I didn't lose that muddy field look.

I also went around with the Tamiya weathering brush and put a few dirty smudges on elbows and knees. This worked well on weathering up the paper standard too.

It not wise to stand next to a standard in an arrow storm.

 

While I was at Warfare 2024 I had the chance to visit the Athena miniatures stool and meet it's creator, Otto. When I look at the latest archer bases my eye instantly goes to the Athena sculpts. So I wanted to pick up a few more.

To my suprise, Otto knew who I was and had also heard of this blog. In fact he knew quite a lot about me and loved my cartoons. When I started to praise his archer figures he told me he was an longbow archer himself and had posed for the sculptor with the bow. This explains the excellent realistic poses that capture the high powered weapons better than any other company. It's the high angle draw with the contorted bodies that stand out in the massed ranks.

Excuse the blurry shot, when I started to take pictures of some different sorts of arrow, he told me he made them. Otto's knowledge of medieval archery really shows in his miniatures.

I will be ordering more I think once I have painted what I have.