anyway on to the figures,
A bit of a slog to prep, clean and paint these buggers ;o) The two units of Swiss Pike Blocks for French Service? :o) mounted on 40mm x 40mm stands. Each unit consists of 24 figures 8 Heavy Pikes, front rank, followed by 2nd and 3rd ranks of 16 Light Pikemen. These units may be used with any rules sets, or for my conversion ;o) of Commands and Colors - "Renaissance" board game engine/system ;o)
I like the Old Glory miniatures and I'm thinking about getting more packs i.e. Swiss, Italian and the Landshnechts (did I spell that correctly? ;o) to enlarge the pike blocks from 24 figures to 48 figure.....anyway... um.. I'm not to sure but I may have botched the Pikemen color schemes. Do these guys look historical painted to you guys? After looking at some of my photos some of these guys should have Swiss "crosses" on their shirts and legs?
Wow! That's a lot of pikes! Nice work - love them en masse.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, yeah I'm planning on added more mass pike blocs :o)
DeleteWhat? 28mm Renaissance? I had to double check to verify that I was viewing Toy Soldiers Studio! Your execution of the Old Glory pikemen is outstanding. They look terrific to me.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan, :o) well...its time to try out painting 25mm/28mm again.. and to see if I'm any good at painting large scale models..cheers
DeleteThey look great! The Old Glory Italian Wars range is one of their best, especially the infantry and artillery. By the time of the Italian Wars, the earlier "cantonal color" patterns were fading (although I still did my own that way - makes it obvious, along with the cantonal banners (which these chaps need some of!), that they are SWISS. Be afraid... be very afraid!
ReplyDeleteRegardless, they should be less flamboyant than the Landsknechts (you were close, just remember the German word "Knecht", from whuich the English word "knight" derives, refers to a mercenary soldier, among other things).
Thanks Pete appreciate your kind words and the German origin word "Knecht" now I know.. also um yes...I should have purchase some banners/flags for these Pikemen...really naughty of me...but I will :o) cheers
DeleteGreat Swiss pike Phil!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike, its a start me my first unit of Pikemen, working on another mass block unit... cheers
DeleteAgree with Jonathan, I was not sure to be in Toy Soldiers Studio! Excellent work, splendid details and most impressive pictures of these pikes!
ReplyDelete:o) Thanks Phil... sorry about the shock wave... switching from 15's to 28's maybe, perhaps a short lived adventure painting 28mm miniatures? :o) and go back painting 15's
DeleteExcellent work Phil, those old glory figures are a pain to clean up and paint but you made a nice colourful job of them and they sure look the business when en masse.
ReplyDeleteHey! Thanks Chris much appreciated, I agree the Old Glory miniatures are a pain in the backside to clean/prepare before painting, but look great after painting. I still have a long road to travel to get to your level of painting 28mm miniatures that includes many other great 28mm miniatures painters on my blog list, bloody marvelous how they paint their 28's.. anyway...next lot to paint up areTwo units of Landsknechts by Pro Gloria Miniatures painting these figures will really test me :o)
DeleteGreat work, great topic and very much a long spears.
ReplyDeleteSwitzerland spear falangi dominated the battlefield for a long time.
These continues the Spanish infantry Tércio.
Until such time as the King Gustaf-II Cavalry (Swedish-Finn) broken this method.
(Breitenfeld battle 1631)
Thanks Maximex, Spanish Tércio hmm...should look into these units as well, I will check out Breitenfeld battle 1631 too..
DeleteYep.
DeleteKing Gustav Cavalry attack system continues (attack kopy) Frenchs heavy armoured cuirassiers battle methods
First phalanges (another renaissance) is Flemish army, 1300, battle of Courtrai
DeleteThanks Maximex... :o)
Deletegreat job
ReplyDeletechangin scale is hard and you manage it with success
and i agree withyou, thse old glory are good
very dynamic
Hey! how are you doing?....Thanks Marco, funny thing after painting the 28mm figures I went back to finish off some 15mm DBA units and for a time I couldn't see the 15mm figures! so tiny! :o)
DeleteYes...most of the Old Glory 28mm figures ranges are great, but some are really bad :o)
cheers,
Don't sweat the small stuff on the crosses as they look great! The Old Glory Renaissance is actually some of their best stuff so in deciding on Old Glory and 28mm you picked a good period to come back in on. I wish I had the time and proper focus ability to jump fully into the Italian Wars as it's such a beautiful period and good gaming options as well.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Good heavens...just visited your blog ..love your Vikings... amazing! it proves being so busy with my work on the 28's I missed not only your posting at your blog but many others on my blog list that I follow which is embarrassing....
Deleteanyway :o)
Thanks Christopher for your kind words and support, yeah..I think I will give the small crosses the miss for now, I concur with you the Italian Wars in my opinion are one of many great periods to study, collect and paint miniatures/units. Old Glory have a huge range of fantastic figures most of them look great some not so great :)) and I am planning on buying more Renaissance bags, guns, cavalry and so on.... cheers Christopher..
You have really made Old Glory figure look great. Got to love the way pikes look.
ReplyDeleteHey!..Thanks Joe, I'm a little surprised how these Old Glory figures turned out after painting them..The Swiss Pikes are really a testing skill for me to see if I could paint 28's again which I enjoyed working on these.. :o) I'm fired up to paint more 28's
DeleteHey I checked out your blog as well....You did a fantastic job painting those Essex Greek Hoplites, Macedonian phalanx and Naismith Seleucid Chariot which looks nasty and I wouldn't dare stand in front of it! :o)
cheers,