Padre
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These are Wargames Foundry figures from a short lived line which I doubt they will continue to produce because they are 'odd' BUT they are Renaissance Italians so I had to have them for my Tilean Campaign. I got them, with others, at the Oldhammer event.
I wanted them to look like militia raised from a city's able bodied men, and so I painted them in ever colour I had and could create so that they did not appear uniform, or in a certain livery. Yes, they share certain fashions, cut of their doublets etc, but there are orange, yellow, burgundy, red, light blue, dark blue, stripy, green, black, brown, pink, purple and other colours in there. I have not quite completed them - they need a standard in the standard bearer's hand but I will put that on when they fight their first battle - I don't yet know which of the several NPC cities they might fight for, so I don't know which standard they need.
Here they are in one 6 x 6 block...
Here's the front rank with the scarface standard bearer visible plus the prettily attired officers and drummers...
Here in a 1x3 formation simply because it makes them look even more numerous!
I tried something this time which I have never done before. Their pikes are the bristles off a brush (thanks to a mate who found a brown brush just right for me after I moaned about the fact I could not find one in three hardware stores). I cut spear heads off old sprues, drilled holes in so that I could slot them onto the bristles, then glued them on. Being brown I do not need to paint them, which is good 'cos they are bendy and the paint would flake off as a consequence. Being a re-enactor of the pike a shot period, I think the slightly bent look is very realistic.
I wanted them to look like militia raised from a city's able bodied men, and so I painted them in ever colour I had and could create so that they did not appear uniform, or in a certain livery. Yes, they share certain fashions, cut of their doublets etc, but there are orange, yellow, burgundy, red, light blue, dark blue, stripy, green, black, brown, pink, purple and other colours in there. I have not quite completed them - they need a standard in the standard bearer's hand but I will put that on when they fight their first battle - I don't yet know which of the several NPC cities they might fight for, so I don't know which standard they need.
Here they are in one 6 x 6 block...
Here's the front rank with the scarface standard bearer visible plus the prettily attired officers and drummers...
Here in a 1x3 formation simply because it makes them look even more numerous!
I tried something this time which I have never done before. Their pikes are the bristles off a brush (thanks to a mate who found a brown brush just right for me after I moaned about the fact I could not find one in three hardware stores). I cut spear heads off old sprues, drilled holes in so that I could slot them onto the bristles, then glued them on. Being brown I do not need to paint them, which is good 'cos they are bendy and the paint would flake off as a consequence. Being a re-enactor of the pike a shot period, I think the slightly bent look is very realistic.
