Lee's Spanish are begun.
Landscherneckt mercanary pike Keil
(https://i.imgur.com/C9Jaa30.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/M3K8Kah.jpg)
80 figures, 40 flags!
(https://i.imgur.com/Paauho5.jpg)
Rear view
(https://i.imgur.com/HNIGbRz.jpg)
Top view
(https://i.imgur.com/e8iW0g1.jpg)
That takes me to 4709 figures for the year, of which 2382 were for myself. Nice way to finish.
Very nice. And, gosh, that's a lot of flags!
Quote from: Raider4 on 31 December 2020, 05:46:31 PM
Very nice. And, gosh, that's a lot of flags!
Isn't it just! Do they have any pikes left to stick into people?
Very colourful and a quick turn around on that unit!
And a good total for the year.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Quite a few flag edges in need of paint ;)
Damn, thought I had got them all! :'(
Damn fine work, Will ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
Looking good kid
Miscounted, 40 short, so 4749
Very colourful Will and they certainly look good 8).
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 January 2021, 02:06:05 PM
Miscounted, 40 short, so 4749
Geez! It astounds me how you get through so many figures each year, especially when I'm sitting putting blackwash on 30 at a time and complaining about how time-consuming it feels!
That's because that's not quite the only thing you do !
Cheers - Kreech. (Nobby will probably be the only one that gets that.) ;)
Kreech? Wait! You're a rat-thing, allied with a woman-thing to raise your status in the man-thing hierarchy?
Explains so much!
:D :D :D :D
;D ;D
Thank you, your horridness.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Ole!! :)
Probably Papal.
Bull might have to be added... :D
Next 120 figures are done.
Spanish pikes
(https://i.imgur.com/pu8qJxK.jpg)
Side view
(https://i.imgur.com/WUH9vIz.jpg)
Only 20 flags this time
(https://i.imgur.com/PrJCLbQ.jpg)
Top view, armour is later black armour for Spanish so they can be used in Renaissance gaming too.
(https://i.imgur.com/jALFvS3.jpg)
There are another 15 painted, just need to decide on their basing
Rear ranks, just becuase I like the figures
(https://i.imgur.com/l5wWHXC.jpg)
They look great, and very impressive ranked up en masse!
They look great for the period - not too many morions, little in the way of puffling pants etc that I can see.
Those look stonking, Will ! :-bd =D> :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
Very nice Will
:-bd =D> :-bd
That's one way to avoid needing to paint the edges of the the flags ;)
It looks as though the red corners have been done though.
They have, but why lets facts get in the way of a good dig ;)
They are very good but for my taste there is too much flag. It diminishes the prominence of the soldiers.
I suspect that Will used a conteporary engraving to base them on.
Sword and Buckler men (not entirely accurate for the period, but Lee loved the figures, and I enjoyed painting them).
Unit 1
Looking quite hard face on!
(https://i.imgur.com/XEiW9V8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0Zpri2m.jpg)
'Flexible' units, so less figures in the rear ranks so they can be swapped for the soliod front ranks when in terrain.
(https://i.imgur.com/17ZFsQf.jpg)
The all important trouser shot!
(https://i.imgur.com/oUMve20.jpg)
Second unit in loose formation
(https://i.imgur.com/KXc1RmA.jpg)
Love the effect they have
(https://i.imgur.com/wsXk1aU.jpg)
TROUSERS!
(https://i.imgur.com/1dvMODZ.jpg)
Both units deployed
(https://i.imgur.com/I6vaZ5T.jpg)
Top view
(https://i.imgur.com/Nsc8G2R.jpg)
Very good, I was actually just eyeing those figures earlier wondering if I should do some conquistador units with them. They look well.
Those look cracking, Will. :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
The buckler men rank up well, an impressive looking unit
They do look particularly good.
Five more units for Lee's army.
Arquibusiers
(https://i.imgur.com/2vCbxon.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/TO5TBTa.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/g67CGaT.jpg)
Flank close up
(https://i.imgur.com/kH2d3eJ.jpg)
Rear view
(https://i.imgur.com/LbGQvmf.jpg)
Crossbow unit
(https://i.imgur.com/ZCVHGSy.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/OvAje1S.jpg)
Quite liking these
(https://i.imgur.com/j0MmTez.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/UwRMYUA.jpg)
Rear view
(https://i.imgur.com/Ry9Cadi.jpg)
Big guns!
(https://i.imgur.com/cDSAXYM.jpg)
Grand battery
(https://i.imgur.com/mz8iDgp.jpg)
Duck!
(https://i.imgur.com/sKCHKsz.jpg)
Busy battery
(https://i.imgur.com/CdF0fJK.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Mw10mYx.jpg)
Handgun skirmishers
(https://i.imgur.com/INGeFfP.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/GCEgYFE.jpg)
Side view
(https://i.imgur.com/hrxCPTs.jpg)
Back view
(https://i.imgur.com/BQrIuAr.jpg)
Skirmishing crossbows
(https://i.imgur.com/aW09jZ0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/j0Qxo8Z.jpg)
Top view
(https://i.imgur.com/lfCy7cH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vV5507w.jpg)
Five units looking mighty
(https://i.imgur.com/eaMM0Tl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qeT7tVl.jpg)
Tres bon, Monsewer (sic) 8)
Cheers - Phillipe ;)
They look good!
Quote from: Techno II on 11 March 2021, 04:47:48 PM
Tres bon, Monsewer (sic) 8)
Cheers - Phillipe ;)
Aren't they Spanish?
But they do speak French ;)
Qué.
Cheers - Manuel. :)
An amazing array of figures there, although I've never been much taken with the original Flodden arquebusier. The artillery and crossbows are particularly stunning.
Thanks all
Really excellent work - that it a very nice army.
I don't know how you do it ! I have spent the last five months painting up a Warmaster Kislev army (based
on Pendraken Poles) and, at last, it is complete. I think you you probably paint the equivalent in a week.
I'm always amazed at the output of some people (including yourself and others who have online blogs).
The key for me is to try and paint every day even if it just a few at a time.
Phil
Beauties, I wish I could focus on a project like you do! I keep getting distracted by different periods, scales, armies etc...
Cheers,
Rob
This is very awesome! Very colourful.
Mounted crossbows finished.
(https://i.imgur.com/pbDrUiq.jpg)
5 on the front rank, four in the back so they can switch between 'loose' and 'skirmish' formations.
(https://i.imgur.com/86I7wC4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JcqKxD9.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yA7xZK2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Z3J2Jgv.jpg)
Mounted handgunners
(https://i.imgur.com/n3Z6Bww.jpg)
Top view, these are also flexibles
(https://i.imgur.com/43sDLfl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/l963B8l.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vgqKS4P.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WBbr6jM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/bPv7pGk.jpg)
Beautiful stuff!
Lord Speedy ??.....It should have been Lord Lightspeed. :o
Cracking stuff, Will ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Very impressive, Will. ;)
Thanks chaps
Only one more unit and two general bases to go now. Rushed these through so Lee could use them (and comprehensively thrash me with them) yesterday!
Spanish camp
(https://i.imgur.com/pstlp5i.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/y0BXhGz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/t1eCou1.jpg)
Jinettes, two units and 1 extra stand that starts the third unit!
(https://i.imgur.com/of6Chuw.jpg)
These caused my Tudors a LOT of agro yesterday!
(https://i.imgur.com/jnnr2cY.jpg)
There's just something about them though!
(https://i.imgur.com/ZoMd98N.jpg)
One unit to show off...
(https://i.imgur.com/nYxPcEy.jpg)
Rear view
(https://i.imgur.com/rR50f5w.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/20g0hUY.jpg)
Heavy knights
(https://i.imgur.com/9m4Qs31.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YH2ZC6u.jpg)
Thunderous hooves
(https://i.imgur.com/8SxHEoH.jpg)
They really look the buisness
(https://i.imgur.com/wW3K5fL.jpg)
I had enough figures left over to make these, the Spanish switched to mixed pike and firearm units early, and these are useful markers to show that.
(https://i.imgur.com/8QJSer9.jpg)
Yes, I overdid it on the flags again!
(https://i.imgur.com/pBpvYrY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Pqq6WuX.jpg)
Two foot generals
(https://i.imgur.com/afaLhqy.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/t6cN3wQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/nsibPKB.jpg)
Well done if you spotted the Earl of Suffolk here
(https://i.imgur.com/N8peKTM.jpg)
They work well
(https://i.imgur.com/ISqsdVt.jpg)
Cracking ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Good Greif I am agreeing with Phil :-bd
Very impressed with those Spanish knights. Amazed that to put Italian Wars armies together you still have to pick and mix proxies, admittedly mainly from the Flodden range, which occured during the period.
Very nice. :-bd
I have tried shamelessly to copy your "old worn canvas" look for some wagon covers I'm currently working on.
Cracking stuff! =D>
Cudders
Really nice stuff, Will. I especially like the camp! ;)
Agreed; that is a great looking baggage park. Those wagons should be filled with King Charles' library of pornography, ripe for the looting.
Army is finished! Hurrah! Loved doing these.
Mounted Generals including King
(https://i.imgur.com/ywGbWdM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qopO0Mg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ViPvSrn.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/FXyQxKV.jpg)
The last 5 bases of Jinettes (one was already done in that last batch).
(https://i.imgur.com/zLiseMv.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YXcwDau.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Urifzet.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hfG3Oz0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5gybDr2.jpg)
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 02 June 2021, 01:29:43 PM
Army is finished!
So nothing to do now then? :D
Superb stuff as usual. :-bd
It's alright, Lee has just ordered a load of ACW Cavalry from Leon for me to paint!
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 02 June 2021, 10:52:12 PM
It's alright, Lee has just ordered a load of ACW Cavalry from Leon for me to paint!
Rather drab compare to the last lot, no doubt we'll be seeing it by this afternoon..... ;)