Now, I usually either leave off household badges (so the troops can serve multiple masters) or else freehand the designs on. Most badges were pretty simple shapes anyway, so this isn't onerous. In this case, the client had brought my attention to Citadel Six products, so the first two household 'battles' are now having badges added - using Citadel Six decals;
The miniatures had actually already been painted before applying the decals, so covering the edges and blending the colours was trickier than it needed to be. Future units will have the decals applied over the primer, and then I'll 'paint around' them. This should give a more snug result.
The decals themselves are great - and very reasonably priced. £3.00 per sheet gets you literally dozens of small badges for the chest / sleeve, and dozens of larger ones for the back. And Geoff (Citadel Six) was a pleasure to deal with - he's just emailed to say he's released 22 more sets too! Get them here Citadel Six.
I recently did a unit of Burgundian pikemen for a client, who then went on to order some archers for the same army. As with the earlier pikemen, I went for a more-or-less uniform unit - with the classic blue-and-white with red cross of st Andrew. No command or standard bearer etc.
I used the Wars of the Roses archers / billmen kit, with no real modification required. Both the French and Burgundian archers of the period were modelled on English ones anyway. Most of the hose and sleeves (where not in blue/white) were in quite dull colours, to offset the bright main scheme, but I couldn't resist some red ones here and there - medieval man loved his colour!
