Before I launch into painting 30 Gascon crossbowmen tomorrow, anyone any idea if they wore anything approaching uniform during the Italian Wars?
Puzzled of Leighton Buzzard
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 July 2017, 07:51:01 PM
Before I launch into painting 30 Gascon crossbowmen tomorrow, anyone any idea if they wore anything approaching uniform during the Italian Wars?
Puzzled of Leighton Buzzard
Why do you ask these questions when I am at work and away from all source material apart from the internet?
Actually if I remember rightly it was a matter of honour amongst Gascon units that no individual would wear a garment of the same shade of colour as any of his comrades garments. ;)
I have a contemporary painting of French crossbowmen on the Pyrenees border during the reign of Loui XII. They are all wearing red and yellow parti-coloured clothing, but no two outfits are the same, i.e. some are striped, the number of stripes vary, some are quartered, some halved, the hose are different colours or striped or all the same colour etc.
Thanks chaps!
Stats, so much for an easy life...
*shudder*
Sounds like my idea of hell to paint.
Only thing that would make it worse is if they were mounted.
Two colours on a Renaissance figure is no especially daunting.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/28mm%20Milanese%20Army%20LateC15th%20-%20Early%20C16th/IMG_1887_zps9r1pqb9x.jpg)