10mm medieval basic Impetus

Well a new project. oh dear. But it does have "smart" targets.

Specific:
Buy and paint 4 10mm armies for basic impetus. Medieval English, French, Scots and Welsh

Measurable:
Well when the four armies are painted and based, its finished. First I will do English and French Hundred years war. With a few changes in and out, they will be able to represent Feudal English and French as well. Next I will do the Scots and Welsh.

Attainable:
In terms of expense, this being a 10mm project for impetus, it shouldn't be too much. I have already bought HYW English and French, costing £25. So I reckon the whole project shouldn't be much more than £60 or so. Easily affordable when spread over a few months.
The other thing in painting time. I am a very quick painter, however I only paint when on holiday, but I am having a long weekend in a couple of weeks, and I'll try and do the English and French in that time, before buying the Welsh and Scots.

Relevant :
This will satisfy a long time ambition to have medieval armies, as I have a big interest in English medieval military history, also it'll be a change from the 'skirmish' wargames I do most of the time. I haven't ever done 'grand' scale armies before.

Timely:
Like I just said when I have a weekend off in a couple of weeks I'll do the French and English.
After that I'll buy the rest of the miniatures needed, paint them over my summer holidays.
The whole project should be wrapped up by September.

Basic impetus Rules and army list from thier website
I'm using Vol 19 and Vol 25.

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Manitic Zombies

Well these are the infamous mantic zombies. Good ain't they. These actually have a few bits from the ghouls set mixed in; some legs and heads. There is the small issue of only being three torsos with fixed left arms (one has both arms fixed), although this can be overcome, to a degree, by vairing the position you glue the torso to the legs.

But, even with this and cutting and repositioning a few of the fixed arms, you can still still see the amount of similar poses. I think this unit of 20 just about gets away with it. But a 'horde' of 30-40 or more it would look a bit silly.

I really enjoyed painting these, the detail is astounding, they are top notch sculpts for the low price. Bellow are the obligatory 'zombies-busting-from-the-ground' which will look even better when the have been based. All in all, I love these miniatures and they deserve the hype they get on the internet. They just look so bloody good (even after my average quality painting).

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