So.....It's been a while but I picked up a brush: 28mm Wargames Atlantic MIddle Ages minis

        May turned out to be far busier and decidedly unpredictable than I had imagined. At the beginning of the month I had started assembling the Foot Sergeants and Peasants sets from Wargames Atlantic. This (of course) took me down the rabbit-hole of trying to make each figure and individual, much time was lost combining the two sets. On the upside I can confidently say that they cross-pollinate very well. 

       After two weeks of squeezing a bit of spare time out here and there I was confronted with almost sixty little gray soldiers and that's when it hit me; I have to paint these guys! Don't get me wrong, these are excellent figures, well detailed, naturally proportioned and cleanly cast. It is just that, as my eyes have aged and arthritis has taken a toll on my hands, painting has gone from a pleasant pastime to a brutal grind. Or maybe it is that I grew up painting Minifigs and Hinchliffe figures....probably a bit of both. All that aside I have finally finished the crossbowmen and archers. You can behold them in all their splendor below. 

I understand that uniforms were not yet a "thing" but I like my units to be recognizable as units

I tried to make a "shouting and pointing" guy for the crossbow unit but wasn't satisfied with the look so only the archers have a readily spotted leader

       I'm nearly finished with the spearmen so they should be appearing soon. Perhaps I will find some ancient figures from the 1980's that I can speed-paint my way through.