This Army consists of 12 elements: 1 x General (3Kn) 6 x 3Ax, 1 x 3Cb, 1 x 3Sp, 3 x 2Ps
Historical Enemies: Feudal & Medieval Spanish, French, English, Morean Byzantines, Ottoman Turks, Catalan Company, Italian Condotta and Albanians.
Brief Historical Notes: Navarre and Gascony Mercenaries fought during early 1200's to early 1400's These guys were hired by any or every factional group within the Latin Empire of Greece which was divided into vassal states. the Kingdom of Thessaloniki, the Principality of Achaea, the Duchy of Athens, the Duchy of the Archipelago, the Duchy of Philippopolis (Thrace) and the Duchies of Nicaea and Philadelphia (Asia Minor)
I decided to paint the Navarrese figures using shades of brown/tan/red/orange/deep reddish pinks colors, I hand painted the shields, which was fun to do. I would have liked the 9 Essex Ax figures (wearing tan/brown shirts) as Heavy 3Ax (The guys wearing helmets kite shields etc)... oh well.. I will hand paint the Banners for the 2 Cavalry figures Escorting the General at a later stage and um.. maybe for the 3Sp? :o) to make this Army/Company look pretty on the table top battlefield.
Thanks Phil!
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Phil, wow - what an excellently painted and based army. The shields are beautifully painted. They do look like a no-nonsense, hard hitting army - very mercenary like. Best, Dean
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, yeah.. I wanted the "red for hire" appearance of this "mercenary" free company.
Deletemy flocking of these units is sort of moderate quality...but I'm happy with them for now.
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Phil
Excellent Phil, lovely painted wee minis and all those shields are terrific!
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is a great advert for 15mm it surely is your talents at this scale!
All the best
Chris
Hello Chris, Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind thoughts and words regarding to my painting the wee mini buggers :o)
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Superb work, Phil! You're making it impossible for me to have a favorite as each new army is my favorite, until the next drops.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I paint ancients and medieval in 15mm, I debate using uniform colors. I adore the uniform color and themes that tie this army together so well. And the shieldwork too.
wow! thanks Monty for your kind words.
ReplyDelete:o) I am sorry Monty for causing favorable armies headaches ;o) to you... actually you do the same to me with your fantastic 25mm 28mm painting style as does DeanM, Chrisfigurines, Crazy Bald Joe's figures, Richard's Tarty's tin to name a few, simply blow me away!
I'm looking forward to your reactions and comments after publishing/posting the Cumans, Lithuanians, Nikaian, Romanian Franks and properly one of my favorites the Islamic Persians.
I know what you are saying regarding to uniform color themes, I tried to paint historical and realist colors used by armies from Ancient to Dark Ages to Medieval time periods.
All the best to you Monty,
cheers,
I love the mix of historical article and great painting
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Hello Marco, thank you for your kind words.
DeleteI sometimes type up some historical notes about the figures/armies I paint.
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