Avon Saga Part 5 - Founding of the Oakwood Order

[LegoEomer]

After the founding of Avon, one of the first things Sir Thomas did was found a full time army.Before this, Avon's soldiers were peasants who would pick up whatever they could use and go to war to make extra money when it wasn't planting or harvesting time. The downside was that the soldiers were only part time, and were not available during planting and harvesting seasons.

To fix this, Sir Thomas founded the Oakwood Order, an elite, full time, army. Before becoming a Knight of the Order, soldiers had to go through one year of vigorous training. However, once joining, Knights are well paid, but are not allowed to get married. Knights in the order wear a chainmail hauberk, and chainmail pants. Over that they wear a surcoat, and are armed with a spear and a shield with the emblem of a oak tree. Higher ranks are armed with a sword.

Founding_the_Oakwood_Order (1) by lego eomer, on Flickr

Founding_the_Oakwood_Order (2) by lego eomer, on Flickr

Thanks for looking. Comments are always appreciated. If you look carefully, I took the advice of some of you and added detailing on the walls.

[TitusV]

These figs are really good looking, and it's Nice you included some reliëf in the walls, but try to top interior builds of, that really helps!

[Lord Vladivus]

Nice figs. Try adding tiles to the floor- try not to leave bare studs on interior builds. Some furniture- weapons/armour racks, or statues would help make the build more visually interesting, as well as adding more colour. At the moment it's very grey.

[bricklover]

Cool figs! Add some furniture!

[soccerkid6]

Nice group of soldiers there As TV and LV suggested, tiling the floor, and top of the walls, and adding some more details inside would make the build pop more