Quote from: mollinary on 23 January 2014, 08:23:05 PM
Great painting! I am interested to see you spread your ensigns between the musketeers and pikes.  Relying on all those contemporary woodcuts, I have always concentrated them all with the pikes, anyone know what the most common practice was?

Mollinary

I would go along with you, Mollinary. The pikes were normally the biggest, strongest men in the regiment and also stood in close formation and so would make a better colour-guard than the shot. However, as I understand it, the pikes could be allocated in contingents to each company and each company carried its own colour, so the flags would tend to be spread along the line. I don't think you can square the circle without building huge units. I think you pays your money....

Excellent figures none-the-less, Phil.

 

I think companies were recruited as a mix of pike and shot, but tended to be deployed with a central block of pike and two sleeves/wings of shot on the battlefield.

As far as I am aware the ensigns tended to be in the centre of the unit, that is with the pike

Is the density a pure 'number of figures thing'?  My pike are much closer - as tight as I can get them

Wow those are great, top job, that man

Jason.

Hi chaps,

Although I haven't updated this thread in a while, I have continued painting my ECW figures
and am now the very proud owner of 5 x Infantry Regiments and 2 guns.   Yippee !   The final
inf Regiment has just been started (Francis Gamul's) with cav to follow.   

I'm now waiting for someone to tell me that Gamul's Foot doesn't qualify as a 'proper' Infantry
Regiment (I've read that he raised a 'trained band').   Still, after all of the red & blue I've painted
recently, yellow will be a nice change.

Anyway, I've also been working on some snowy terrain so here are a couple of pics to prove there
is still 10mm life in this part of Wolverhampton !



This shows a couple of Royalist guns hiding behind gabions and supported by Prince Rupert's
Regiment of Foot.

The next shot is my 10mm village (created for Warmaster) liberally dusted in GW snow.
My sincere hope is that I can tip it all off when our game is finished...



Hope you enjoy the shots.

Cheers,


Phil

Very nice sir, great terrain too.

Very nice...Love the artillery bases

Fenton / ML,

Thank you.   To try and make the bases look reasonable, I added thin, irregular card 'planking'
under each gun.   The sand was then added around this (which gives the planking apparent 
depth).   I think that the Pendraken gabions and other associated artillery tat also help to bring
the bases to life.   Took a while but I'm pleased with the results.

Cheers,


Phil

T'riffic ! 
Cheers - Phil

Brilliant figures, Phil, and terrific terrain. I love the village. 

Yeah like the others have said and your village is fantastic

Take care

Andy

Do the Gambions come with the guns?

cracking stuff as ever Phil.

As with the others, really likely the snowscape.

The Gambions were an unsuccessful minor Star Trek species, weren't they? Or are they a minor West African nation?

I think they're a kind of shrimp that came too close to electrical equipment.