#swordwind chronicles

It's a bit of a pain. First off, using the Perry Miniatures Agincourt Knight arms (specifically the ones from the English Army kit) do work well with the Fireforge Scandinavian/Norse models in several ways, but this particular set of arms just didn't quite fit, specifically the right arm (which I just realised makes him left handed. Oh well), so I had to cut the bent arm just above the elbow, glue the right shoulder in, glue the right hand and forearm to the axehaft, glue the left arm to the model and then glue them all together and hope that gravity didn't tear it all apart. But it worked and it works.

The second problem is that I'm using the Oathmark Elf Infantry heads for the models and though they have a good spangenhelm style helmet, I want to give him a bascinet but I don't want to go through brownstuffing on a maille aventail to cover the gap again. Especially since on average, bascinets go lower down the head, past the ears and to the top of the neck for coverage.

I have some white plastic piping that I could use to extend down the back a bit. Or maybe use it to make a bevor to make him a great bascinet, like this:

He will have a visor for his helmet to complete the look, just because I like visored bascinets but still.

Last night, I'd found my unused sprues of free Warlord Games Landsknechts in my sprue pile of shame, and also an unused sprue of Perry Miniatures' Agincourt English longbowmen, and I had a thought on how well they'd fit.

Turns out... not great but not terrible. The proportions are not terrible, but the arms and bodies are not made with each other in mind. The Landsknecht arms have a slight ridge from where they connect to a slightly more outsized torso wearing close fitting armour or doublet, so there's a bit of a gap between the arms and the torso more than should be natural. You can't see it on the photo but in person, the gap is noticeable.

Another problem is that the Landsknecht kits are... well, for Landsknechts, so all but two of the pairs of arms are wearing the stereotypical poofy sleeves infamous for the Landsknechts, which do not fit with the early 15th century look I want with my models.

Again, using the Perry Miniatures' Agincourt English Army archer's body, since it's perfect for the lower class of soldiery.

The one on the left has a head from aforesaid Agincourt English Army archer sprue, which his arms are from the Fireforge Foot Sergeants kit. I didn't think the spear would be at that angle, but I'll use it anyway. Want to give him a pavise shield, then do some livery on it. Maybe for Riversway, which I can copy onto is gambeson/aketon, so blue with a black horizontal bar through it (though that is a tad drab for a fairly important trading down, so I might spruce it up a bit).