28mm Milanese Army

[Leman]

Go for it. The 10mm ones are really nice figures, although personally I think the late medieval knights make much better gendarmes unless you plan to fight post- 1550.

[toxicpixie]

You rate the LAN codes then?

I'm always a bit put off by no piccies, and from what I can google it looked like the LAN pike code was a single pose. Quite a nice one, but a single pose nonetheless!

Any suggestions from the gallery for other codes to mix in with the Landsknechts proper? Or if they're multiple poses... 

[Leman]

ELM 1 mtd. knights on barded horses - 3 poses
ELM 9 pikemen are fully armoured with kneeling front rank and standing rear rank
ELM 23 mtd crossbow - useful figure for Italians, French or Swiss
ELM 28 mtd knights on unbarded horses - 3 poses and really nice figures - suitable for up to Pavia
ELM 38 mtd generals are two different armoured figures
ER 10 European pikeman - 2 or 3 poses and excellent for French, Italian, Spanish
EL 10 Stradiot - perfectly useable for early C16th as well.

Certainly is plenty of stuff in there for replicating most troop types of the Italian Wars.

[fred.]

LAN pikes are 2 poses, one in slashed clothing and floppy hat, the other is in what looks like mail, with a sort of fez style hat.



This pike block has lots of LAN code pikes in the middle ranks. Front rank are armoured pikes.
The ones in Morions are from the Elizabethan range, the ones in 'flat caps' crop up in a couple of packs - including the medieval pikes.

[fred.]

Remembered I had a bare metal photo of LAN1 pikes

[toxicpixie]

Brilliant, nice one both of you

I shall be ordering positively soon!

Fred - that's five wide by seven deep on... A 40mm by 60mm base? Looks spot on, exactly what I was hoping to come up with

I might go  five by five though for normal sized units and do a larger base size for large ones (as I think I'll be using Pike & Shotte, or possibly Impetus...).

[fred.]

Glad to help

Yes it's 40x60mm base. It's a good block of figures, your count sounds about right, by going with a single bigger base it allows a bit more flexibility on ranking up

[kev1964]

Excellent painting, great looking army,



kev

[Techno]

Seconded !!
Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

Yes, you can't beat 28 mm for detail. And those are beautifully painted, DP.

[Leman]

First Swiss halberdiers now ready for basing.



Also remembered I had recently completed the first T unit of Milanese arquebusiers (The Assault Group). They are quite sombre as I want them to double up as the Black Band.

[paulr]

Stunning 

[Techno]

Brilliant ! 

Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

Love the Swiss guy with the beard, I've a mate looks just like that

[FierceKitty]

Sp does my sister's NYM (Nice Young Man...actually, he's 55).