More Bretonnians this week! As with a lot of these miniatures, I've been chipping away at the slowly over the last month or so, until I've got enough models to put together.
First up, we've got the Bowmen of Bergerac. They were an elite unit you could take in the first Bretonnian codex: you got Bertrand and his friends Hugo le Petit and Gui le Gros (in no way similar to Robin Hood, Little John and Friar Tuck respectively), and the option to upgrade a unit of regular archers into marksmen.
First up, the characters, from left to right. Hugo le Petit is a conversion based on an Age of Sigmar blood-something-or-other, with a head from Mordheim and quite a lot of green stuff. Bertrand le Brigand, who looks a lot like Errol Flynn, is an old metal model from the 90s. He's a really nice sculpt and has a jolly enthusiasm that you wouldn't see now. Gui le Gros is made from plastic bits from the modern men at arms, with some conversion work. It's hard to see, but he's holding a tankard made from green stuff.
The bowmen are an interesting bunch. They're all metal miniatures, comprised of archers, models with names on their tabs rather than descriptions, and "brigands". I gather that the brigands are a bit obscure. We've got (L to R): archer, brigand, brigand, "Hobbs", archer and archer.
And her's the whole lot, about to go and rob the Sherrif of Nottingham:
And now for another unit lost to time - a cannon! Well, I gather that some Bretonnian armies can now take a primitive cannon in The Old World. Cannons were available in the original army list, and I've painted these guys in the style of the Ordonnance du Roi in White Dwarf 139. The crew consists of "gunner", "master gunner" (sensibly equipped with armour and shield) and "Otto". Search me.
I think I'm approaching the point where I'm going to have to start on the knights, which is rather daunting. Before then, I've got a couple of damsels to check out. It's a hard life.
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