Could somebody point me in the direction of some photos of the Landsknecht range?

Many thanks in advance.

The guys with feathers on their hats in this pike block on LAN codes, there are two one in a mail shirt and a type of fez, the other in more typical slashed clothing



The left hand two guns are LAN codes


the gunner with his back to the camera is LAN, and the guy holding the rocket started out as LAN haldberdier (the organ gun might be a LAN one two too (nearly left that one to give FK a fit!)


I have the two handed swordsmen too - but can't find a photo it is a single pose, slightly crouched

Don't be afraid to try some of the other pike figures as well, especially those in the Flodden range. The gunners in the Flodden range also have very noticeable very early Tudor clothing so will also make great Italians, Spanish and French.

Are the Flodden figures the ER codes?

If so I think the front rank of my pikes are those figures, along with a sprinkling of EL pikes (in morions) - mine are meant to be fantasy figures, hence the mix of styles to match GW empire.

The Flodden figures are indeed the ER codes (Early Renaissance). I don't like the arquebusier figure though as he looks post 1530 to me.

http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/media/For%20Lords%20Tomorrow%20is%20a%20Busy%20Day/04aLandsknechts.jpg.html

Couple of pike blocks for later Wars of the Roses

Thank-you. I'll consider buying some now that I see they don't appear to be too hard to paint. At my age and with deteriorating eyesight you have to think of this sort of thing! Thank the gods for khaki I say!

I have definitely got to do me a rocket battery. Just had a crack at converting a MM and a Pendraken Late Medieval Knight into a plumed and skirted gendarme. Will post a photo when painted up. Might encourage Nik to reconsider the Italian Wars.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 19 September 2014, 09:36:07 AM
Might encourage Nik to reconsider the Italian Wars.

It's possible..although I have got *serious* other distractions at the moment, including two lovely packages which landed safely from Pendraken HQ yesterday 

You're being very coy about your packages.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 26 September 2014, 04:11:39 PM
You're being very coy about your packages.

I'm good at playing hard-to-get

Is there any intention to expand the range? I wouldn't mind doing landsknechts one day, but single-pose packs are pretty offputting.

Quote from: MattW on 16 October 2014, 11:15:03 PM
Is there any intention to expand the range? I wouldn't mind doing landsknechts one day, but single-pose packs are pretty offputting.

It's something we've chatted about in the past, but there's so much on the design schedule at the moment that it wouldn't be happening in the near future I'm afraid.

Ummm .. may I speak for the silent, or not so silent, majority ... or possibly a minority .. OK just for me?

I like single pose packs. Especially for anything from say mid 1600's to about 1900 (except the ACW where they were all a rabble anyway). Single poses make a unit look disciplined and efficient. Multiple poses packs may be more "realistic" but ... meh!

What used to irk me about Airfix was that you would buy a pack of 48 figures, and from it, once you'd weeded out all those extra Sten carriers, stretcher bearers, casualties and the incredible amount of support weapons, you'd barely enough for a proper half platoon.  Since everyone uses a different rule set the proportions of officers to rankers, of muskets to pike, of kneeling  to standing will vary.

Even you, great Dark Lord, will not be able to satisfy the undisciplined wishes of we (the dead flies on the Pendraken Bug Zapper 2000) unless ... you give up selling packs and just sell figures individually. <ducks to avoid incoming boot>

I must say when I model regular troops, I like the look of a fairly uniform pose. Small variations in dress within a pose - feathered hats/helmets/bonnets, slashed hose/tights/cuisses etc. - are fun in relevant periods, however.
I still wake up screaming at the memory of those Airfix packs. Though they went quite well with the Grant/Featherstone rules of those days, mind you.

We knew nothing better in those days, and, ironically, the wheel seems to have come full circle and multi-pose stands are the preferred option - for anything after 1900, at any rate.

You'll never persuade me that I was alone in thinking there was room for improvement!

I actually sort of agree with FSN. I don't mind limited poses on WSS, SYW and Naps. However ancients, dark ages, medieval I want as many poses as possible and to be honest the pendraken ranges are pretty good in that sense. The Normans I've just painted had 8 different poses to 13 models on a base (10 if its a command base). I've just started putting ancient Spanish forces and Republican Romans together (my compliments Phil). The Spanish will again have 8 to 10 different poses the Romans 4 or 5 but I like animated bases and mixing troop types. At the end of the day an ancient Spanish army wouldn't have all the chainmail armoured guys in one group all the ones with just a shield in another they'd all be mixed up.

Could do with more cavalry poses though maybe 2 to a pack rather than 1- can can horses aren't a great look.

I think most of the Landsknecht are two pose packs aren't they? For "real" regulars I think that's about enough, same pose in slight variation, for stuff like horse & musket I'm actually happy with them split out as packs eg one port arms, one march attack etc like the WSS range. I'd still *prefer* multi pose packs (e.g. three different march attack guys as unless on parade ground and recently equipped I like a bit more "humanness" in my units

For something like Landsknechts I'd much, much prefer at least three poses! The other similar era pike are excellent for that - I've used about three-four different pack codes to get as much variation as possible so it looks like the typical pictures from the period - lots of exciting hats, poses, jerkins, hose/boots/bare legs/pantaloons etc, all in slightly different poses. Really looks animated and dashing

As an example, I'm very impressed with the recent Warmonger great swords (and pike) - thirty figures in a pack, all effectively individual, all with the same look and feel, looks like a spot ona ctual body of men all individuals united in one unit.

On the Airfix - they're hard work. It seems someone at Airfix decided "bloke with rifle who isn't tap dancing or singing" was too much to ask for. They have to be "stabbing with bayonet whilst demonstrating the rumba" or "one of thirteen identical NCO's with SMG and itching powder down underpants"

Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 17 October 2014, 11:00:08 AM
I actually sort of agree with FSN.

This  is not really the best thing to admit too, along the lines of  admitting you like wearing your wifes underwear and high heels!  , Or that you try and look up womens skirts on escalators