Within the Pale

I've finished the contingent of Pale-men for Fitzgerald's third of the army.  These were in progress for a long time, since it took a while before I had an idea of what I wanted them to look like.

From right to left, they are: Fitzgerald men with the red saltire; two Dubliners, two soldiers of the Archbishop of Dublin's household; three retainers of Rowland Fitzeustace, Baron Portlester (one of Kildare's leading supporters), and James D'Arcy of Platten, a huge man who carried Simnel through the streets of Dublin on his shoulders.

The figures are a mix of WotR and HYW plastics from the Perrys.  I mixed in some of the (relatively) recent French infantry set to include the long aketons popular in Ireland and Scotland.

The flags are Portlester's (I tried to mount it on a more complicated pole and am not happy with the results) and a speculative one for the City of Dublin: white roses, St. Laurence O'Toole, and the three-towered castle under siege from which Dublin's current arms of three fiery castles is derived.  There is an old city seal from the 14th century showing the three-towered castle with an archer shooting from tower, and over time the archers were replaced with flames and the castle split into three.

I've never been entirely happy with the basing for this army, and since these photos were taken, some new basing material has arrived, so I'm also in the process of tinkering with the whole army's bases.

Now on to the next phase: kern and gallowglass.