Good to hear, I have followed projects of yours in the past.
That’s a great little scene,the river crossing. Very evocative :-*
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Hi Darrell,
Good to have you back! I was wondering where you had got to? :)
Interesting, I'm planning to one day extend my late 15th century collection to the first Italian War. Not Fornovo itself, but rather small scale actions on the campaign trail to Naples and back.
I'm interested to see how you choose to represent the Italian infantry.
That little diorama is excellent and inspiring.
Funny how the one banner bearer is actually hidden there :)
Cracking little scene! :-* I can't wait to see what else you produce!
Looking forward to this mate
Cheers
Matt
Charlie,
I've just realised that you were likely asking about how I would be painting the infantry(?).
Bare in mind Sigismondo Malatesta died in 1468 and those scenes are from La battaglia di Piombino 1448 (https://stemmieimprese.it/2012/09/17/la-battaglia-di-piombino-1448/).
(http://stemmieimprese.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/battaglia-poggio.jpg)
True, my guess is Italian Infantry used similar tactics until the French and Swiss gave them a bit of a shock and that's why anything different is given a worthy mention such as Pike from the Romagna, Venetians at Agnadello, that's if they did have pikes. Now working out what the French and Spanish infantry formations looks like is a real challenge. This Link from 1513 has some inspirational images including dismounted French archers https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105154498/f1.planchecontact.r=chronique (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105154498/f1.planchecontact.r=chronique)
cheers Pete
True, my guess is Italian Infantry used similar tactics until the French and Swiss gave them a bit of a shock and that's why anything different is given a worthy mention such as Pike from the Romagna, Venetians at Agnadello, that's if they did have pikes. Now working out what the French and Spanish infantry formations looks like is a real challenge. This Link from 1513 has some inspirational images including dismounted French archers https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105154498/f1.planchecontact.r=chronique (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105154498/f1.planchecontact.r=chronique)There was no shock from the French and Swiss, other than the occasional atrocities, and what was perpetuated by those with an agenda: Machiavelli and Guicciardini. The Risorgimento, like any nationalist movement, created tales to explain why Italy was disunited and prey for foreigners and fascists added to it. Then biased Anglophones, like Oman and Taylor, added their own spin and due to their books being in continuous print, have been relied on by gamers to perpetuate the notion that Italy was a backwater. It hasn't helped that sympathetic and knowledgeable professional historians, like Mallett and Caferro, have lazily perpetuated the same falsehoods: A pair of Hawkwood's dismounted men-at-arms wielding a single heavy lance, for instance - were they fighting dragons? lol Looking at Villani's original passage in Italian, it turns out each men-at-arms wielded a lance two handed, like they were hunting boars. Rather than being novel, it was the common way armored men fought on foot - illustrated in fighting manuals in the 1400s.
cheers Pete
| 1403–1495 – War with Milan 1422, 30 June Battle of Arbedo Arbedo Duchy of Milan defeats confederates 1449, 6 July Battle of Castione Castione Milan defeats Uri and Leventina 1478, 28 December Battle of Giornico Giornico Confederates defeat Milan 1487, 28 April Battle of Crevola Crevola d'Ossola Milan defeats Confederates and Valais |
These crucial historical events notwithstanding, Hawkwood alone looms large in the modern imagery of Castagnaro. English and American authors - with Italian ones following - bear most of the blame. To this day Italy's developments in warfare in the Middle Ages are perceived by many historians to be, to an extent, backwards when compared to the rest of Europe (whereas the opposite is actually true). p.6
Yeah, it's likely 'Italian' tactics would have caught up with most of Mainland Europe by 1495.It's the other way round... ;)
Still, these pictures/links are very inspirational so please keep them coming :-* :-* :-*
Kind Regards
i fanti di Agnolo della Pergola spingono i loro villici a riempire la fossa sotto il tiro dei veneziani
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the gents with the large shields armed with spears were used a bit like Dopplesoldiers or Swiss Halberdiers. Obviously this is absolute speculation on my part.Those gents with various polearms covered the missile troops and in fluid condottieri warfare operated as assault infantry, along with sword and bucklermen. If you look at the 1448 Battle of Caravaggio, the Ambrosian Republic's forces under Francesco Sforza and the Venetians under his cousin Micheletto Attendolo, both sides operated from extensive entrenchments, reminiscent of those used in the 18th Century.
Worth looking into further though. Perhaps the odd few protecting the flanks of the Italian pike? Hmmmmmm......... ;) :)
Kind Regards
Tav.4 – Combattimento di fanti
È il momento dell’attacco di sorpresa al campo fiorentino. Sulla sinistra i fanti di Firenze indossano calze-brache alla divisa sforzesca e scudi o rotelle con emblemi fiorentini. Sulla destra incalzano i fanti della lega papale con brache e rotelle con i colori rosso e giallo d’Aragona o bianco e nero della repubblica di Siena.
I'll be very interested in that book, and how it compares with the (usually) fantastic Osprey Campaign series.
I'm also curious how they portray the armies of the 1490s - closer to what we'd call the Wars of the Roses look in terms of arms/armour, or closer to the recognisable Italian Wars look of a decade or so later (Landsknechts, beards, big hats etc)?
A quick post on my Gewalthaufen Blog about a forthcoming book that has got me all hot and bothered. ;DThe sequel will be out in July...
There will be a full review soon.
https://gewalthaufen.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-italian-wars-volume-1-expedition-of.html (https://gewalthaufen.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-italian-wars-volume-1-expedition-of.html)
The sequel will be out in July...
ATM, I'm waiting for some light reading: Courts and Courtly Arts in Renaissance Italy: Arts and Politics in the Early Modern Age (https://www.amazon.com/Courts-Courtly-Arts-Renaissance-Italy/dp/1851496432/ref=pd_ybh_a_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y06FF9X6WPF6ZTTDV9QA).
I recommend acquiring or borrowing this collection of papers: Italy and the European Powers: The Impact of War, 1500-1530 (https://www.amazon.com/Italy-European-Powers-1500-1530-History/dp/900415163X/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=)
Don't have this one yet, due to the price, but there's a Kindle version available on US Amazon for ~$47: The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–95: Antecedents and Effects (https://www.amazon.com/French-Descent-Renaissance-Italy-1494-95/dp/0860785505/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=french+descent+italy&qid=1570749349&sr=8-1) - not a fan of proprietary software, though I've heard of software being able to convert Kindle/Nook books into PDFs.
Some useful stuff about artillery: The Munitions of the Republic: Production, commerce, and management of materiel in Renaissance Florence (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=116097.msg1452946#msg1452946). Charles VIII's artillery was evolutionary, not revolutionary and the main difference between the ordnance of French and the Italian states, was the former's better organization.
Cheers for the book recs - really useful!
Thanks again Condottiere!
I love the article and Gonzaga's interest in Ottoman dress and especially the 'turban'.
When it comes to the Fornovo game I will certainly be adding a vignette depicting him wearing such a turban. Perhaps as he's being armed for battle. It would make a great scene :)
Condottiere,It's a two part article titled 'Dracula' and his Contemporaries: 15th Century Balkan War Leaders by David Nicolle(parts 1&2) and David Windrow(only credited in part 1) and paintings by Angus McBride - Military Illustrated #30, Nov. 1990 and #31, Dec. 1990. This is from back when Military Illustrated had articles worth reading - the back cover of #31 has a tobacco ad with a warning!
What publication are the colour plates taken from?
Angus MacBride, yeah?
It's a two part article titled 'Dracula' and his Contemporaries: 15th Century Balkan War Leaders by David Nicolle(parts 1&2) and David Windrow(only credited in part 1) and paintings by Angus McBride - Military Illustrated #30, Nov. 1990 and #31, Dec. 1990. This is from back when Military Illustrated had articles worth reading - the back cover of #31 has a tobacco ad with a warning!
Between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Southern Italy became the theater of the clash between the dynasties that disputed the possession of the Kingdom, and with it of the central Mediterranean: first the Angevin and Aragonese ruling houses, then the nascent national monarchies of France and Spain, but even local authorities, hostile to all forms of centralization, gave rise to a long series of battles: more than thirty scholars from various nations and different scientific fields (historians, classical and humanist philologists, Italianists, historians of the Italian language, of art, architecture and miniature) have investigated the vast literary and artistic documentation produced around these war events. Described in miniatures, in frescoes, in tapestries, in bronze or in marble, in the polished Latin of the humanists or in the blunted vulgarity of the ambassadors, in the masterpieces of Machiavelli or Guicciardini, the battles provide an interesting key to a deeper knowledge of the southern Renaissance. The focus of the investigation is not so much the battles in themselves, although reconstructed here, but their different narratives, where the actual progress of the war event often ends up being concealed through a progressive shift from factus to fictus.
AFAIK, hard copies are difficult to find of this Italian and French book, but a digital version is available at 37 Euros or individual articles at 6 Euros: La battaglia nel Rinascimento meridionale : moduli narrativi tra parole e immagini (https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/2644984)
If I'm not mistaken, a translated version is here: https://www.viella.it/libro/9788883344916 (https://www.viella.it/libro/9788883344916) - The abstract for each article is in English.
Google translation of the back cover:
... I'm not having much joy in finding decent flags for the Venetians as there's only one provided in the European mercenaries box, and I'd want one for a hand gun unit, one for the swordsmen, stradiots, light horse, MAA, crossbows, and pikemen, possibly even a bill armed unit. Any suggestions for flags and heraldry beyond the lion of St Mark?
Yarkshire Gamer's Book Review - The Italian Wars Pt 1 Helion Publishing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9nW-RgAbr8&feature=youtu.be)
Yeah, thanks, I've seen the vid.I only saw six color plates in the video and two more on his blog. It's better than Turnbull's Tanaka book - one color plate on the cover and the rest public domain images!
I'm waiting for Charles (Head honcho at Helion) so send me a couple of books for review but he's been a bit under the weather of late thus the delay.
I only saw six color plates in the video and two more on his blog. It's better than Turnbull's Tanaka book - one color plate on the cover and the rest public domain images!
I wonder if the Swiss are depicted dressed like in the Cronaca di Partenope, S. 243, 'Entry of the Swiss into Naples in 1498':
(https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/M-Apr00-Fornovo-2.jpg)
Having sacked the French baggage train at Fornovo, the stradiotti came across Charles' book of portraits, probably erotica, according to David Nicolle, sexual conquests or even the equivalent of fun time cards one would encounter in phone booths. According to John Gagné, it wasn't that simple: Collecting Women: Three French Kings and Manuscripts of Empire in the Italian Wars (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/691389). Speaking of stratioti, Stathis Birtachas's paper concerns these Balkan mercenaries and Italian historiography and literature of the time: La memoria degli stradioti nella letteratura italiana del tardo Rinascimento (https://www.academia.edu/2770159/La_memoria_degli_stradioti_nella_letteratura_italiana_del_tardo_Rinascimento). Wouter Kreuze's thesis focuses on Italian national awareness: Italy and the Italians: The identity of Italy in the letters between the Sforza, Gonzaga and Estensi during the first stage of the Italian Wars 1494-95 (https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/58613/REMA%20SCRIPTIE%20WP%20KREUZE.pdf?sequence=1).
Hi Darrel there's a good picture of Virginio Orsini's troops in 1491 from a fresco originally from the the Orsini castle at Bracciano. Here's the link to the image:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/4QHZuDpt3FeaPw?ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.4433745091975124%2C%22y%22%3A0.5602020927768535%2C%22B%22%3A13%2C%22z%22%3A13%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A0.12858108108108107%2C%22height%22%3A0.2196792737649662%7D%7D (https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/4QHZuDpt3FeaPw?ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.4433745091975124%2C%22y%22%3A0.5602020927768535%2C%22B%22%3A13%2C%22z%22%3A13%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A0.12858108108108107%2C%22height%22%3A0.2196792737649662%7D%7D)
the image can be blown up to show all sorts of details and there are some light lancers in the background some of whom appear to be carrying shields
cheers, Pete
Speed painting?
They look amazing for speed painting!
A also managed to get four horses for the Stradiots completed and another three glossed. Iyt will be about a week before they see any matt varnish. Again, all speed painted.
Your work is inspirational! :o Really interested to see your Stradiots, haven't been completely blown away by the Redoubt Games ones in my collection so far.
They look great! Great work on the bold colours!
Rookie question but are they all Perry figures?
I just love those Stradiots. Wonderful painting, so crisp and clean. :-* :-* :-* :-*
This is looking great. I look forward to seeing them in their hundreds and hundreds!
Love the stradiots! They have inspired me to finally get some for my 15mm Italian Wars forces.
Super Stradiots!
Those stradiots are lovely!
Super Stradiots!
Thanks Richard and Ocius.I think I might go with Mirliton as I could then also get some of their very nice Italian infantry with the big shields (discussed at very illuminating length earlier in this thread - I was reading it all earlier today!)
They are such a colourful unit and in many ways they really stand out in the armies in Italy of the period.
What manufactuer were you thinking of? I don't know that much about the 15mm game but I'm considering possibly putting together a L'Art de la Guerre/Mortem et Glorium in 15 mil army at some point. Would you recommend any other rules for the Late 15th C?
Amazing work Atheling, can't wait to see more of it!!
Me too! As I said earlier, yesterday I dropped a bloomin' pan on my painting hand! I don't think anything is broken but I'm giving until tomorrow just on case. It's nice and bruised, hurts but nothing is wonky lol
Some ice and hydrocortisone and you'll be back painting in no time 👍🏼
Like them mate
Good to hear you‘re well again, both regarding hand and cold. That sure sounds like a scare.
Lovely on your Swiss, it’s Good to see you’re making progress with your project. I know how daunting those Swiss pike blocks can be (and my largest is only 40 strong) but it sure is worth it.
They look really impressive arrayed up! (And appropriately colourful! :D )
How did you decide on the shield designs/patterning for them? If you don't mind me asking
Yesterdays Speed Painting goings On.....
More pics and the usual waffle on my blog here:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2021/05/stradiots-last-evenings-painterly-doings.html (https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2021/05/stradiots-last-evenings-painterly-doings.html)
Stadioti
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sy_wDAPqXws/YJnC_d8Nt_I/AAAAAAABGbk/mC3GOXVsBD4QHyNAyF7jqlyGlMntJZ2CQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/STRADIOTS%2B1A.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eXnvX3B-wLc/YJnC_n-i3AI/AAAAAAABGbo/fsdc24Mlnk40N6CWIYA_cmzo7vJr8YtEACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/STRADIOTS%2B2A.jpg)
Your painting is so vibrant. They look amazing.
Nice thread you have here mate, great painting too
Brian
Possibly the best painted Perry stradioti I have seen :-*
And to put some names to faces.. Here are some words of Thomas of Argos a stradioti commander fighting for Henry VIII in France. They were facing a French force twice their number, including heavy cavalry.
''Comrades, as you see we are in the extreme parts of the world, under the service of a King and a nation in the farthest north. And nothing we brought here from our country other than our courage and bravery. Thus, bravely we stand against our enemies, because their numbers cannot match our virtue. We are children of the Hellenes and we are not afraid of the barbarian horde. …. Therefore, courageous and orderly let us march to the enemy, … and let us prove with our action the famous since olden times virtue of the Hellenes''
They managed to ambush and out maneuver the French causing them to retreat leaving 360 dead on the field. The Stradioti numbered 35 dead and Henry granted Thomas an annual salary as a reward.
Absolutely wonderful painting and great basing as well. Stunning. :-* :-* :-* :-*
Wow, those look great! Are they from TAG? If so, I'm not usually a fan of their style, but you have made them look very appealing.
Very well painted. It's not a range I've seen painted up much but I rather like the figures.
I'm beginning to move away from the idea of doing Fornovo as I am beginning to think a much better game could me made of Cerignola 1503, which is early enough for me to avoid altering the appearance of the miniatures I have painted thus far. (And yes, it did dawn on me after a ten year stint in researching the Fornovo! lol )
But Darrell you will miss out on the spectacle of the massed cavalry and a vignette of the stradiotti looting the Fench baggage camp
alessandro de Benedtti describes
how the Stratiotti " ...affixed the heads of the enemy to their light lances , entered camp. and were welcomed with great enthusiasm. One of them, so that he might not be seen returning from battle empty handed, crually cut off the head of a priest"
What a splendid vignette this presents
And of course , this account requires little embellishment
" In that plunder I saw a book in which were painted various nude images of his mistresses , differing in appearance and age as his lust and insane love had impelled him in each city; these pictures he carried around as souvenirs"
I recall this being the inspiration for a well received scenario which was used at 2 Italian Wars themed events.
its the one day wab events I used to run back in the day.
Oddly, there is enough literature on the kings porn stash, pen something for Hobilar on it. ( on my to do list for the last decade)
The whole reason for conquering Naples was to use as a staging ground for new crusade. However, the French soon forgot any such ideas. They were so renowned for their activities that the Italians named Syphilis il mal Gallico, the French disease
Absolulty- French sources blamed the illness on the Italians.
I thought the view was that a more virulent form of syphilis was endemic in the New World, that it was brought back to south west Europe by the crews of European ships and then spread further north by Charles VIII's army when it retreated north.
Agree Darrol.
There is a Spanish series of books produced in what may be termed the "osprey Style" called Guerreros y Batallas, they have a book on " Cerinola 1503" in Spanish and lavishly illustrated , some great colour plates in there. I think clavier Books had it .
I have a few in the series but as I don't read Spanish I can't comment on the text. I guess like Wargames Illustated you just buy it for the pictures
Unless you're fluent in Spanish, it's useless:
I've looked everywhere for that particular book but no one has it in stock George. I'm marked down for when the publisher gets a restock bit that's about it unfortunately.
If it had decent maps and illustrations then Google Translate could be my friend. I'm not so sure about trying to translate a whole text via Google Translate as when I've tried it before I've ended up with half good and half gobbledygook!
Unless you're fluent in Spanish, it's useless:
1) One map of Fornovo.
2) Most of the illustrations and photos have been seen elsewhere and a few don't look period appropriate.
3) The plates look computer created and not that high quality. Plates 4 and 5 are phase I and II respectively of Cerinola, but it's not worth the price of a copy.
Volume 2, Garellano 1503, has better quality plates, probably computer drawn again, and appropriate pics and drawings, though some are clearly Victorian. My favorite is plate 5 with the guy with a freshly severed arm leading troops and clutching a standard with his left hand!
You'd be better off tracking down the titles on Bicoca 1522 and Pavia 1525 for the plates.
That's a real bummer as fashions certainly changed in Italy in the 19 year between Bicocca and Cerignola and 22 years between Pavia and Cerignola.
Does the Garellano 1503 have many colour plated of the Spanish troops?Plates 1, 5 and 7 shows Spanish troops in action, but it's not at the level of detail as the Helion books I, II and possibly the forthcoming III on Pavia. Plates 2, 3 and 4 tracks the movement of the armies on a 3D map and plate 6 is an overhead view of troops crossing a pontoon bridge. There are no illustrations of the French, expect for fleeing men-at-arms on a bridge, but they're in plain white harness, compared to the fancy ones in Pinto's plates.
I meant in terms of quality. Both are illustrated by Angel Garcia Pinto and if you could get past his Attack of the Clones or Rimmerworld style, you're in for a treat.
From Bicoca 1522:
(https://imagenes.arrecaballo.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/batalla-de-bicoca-1522--lanquenetes-alemanes-y-piqueros.png)
Plates 1, 5 and 7 shows Spanish troops in action, but it's not at the level of detail as the Helion books I, II and possibly the forthcoming III on Pavia. Plates 2, 3 and 4 tracks the movement of the armies on a 3D map and plate 6 is an overhead view of troops crossing a pontoon bridge. There are no illustrations of the French, expect for fleeing men-at-arms on a bridge, but they're in plain white harness, compared to the fancy ones in Pinto's plates.
This is plate 7 and the cover of the book:
(https://imagenes.arrecaballo.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/batalla-de-garellano-1503--el-caballero-bayardo-defendiendo-el-puente-en-mola-768x777.png)
Darren I think you are being ultra critical. I can't even see the speckling and the painting standard is well above average if not edging on superb. :-* :-*
However if you are really unhappy with the miniatures, I would be very happy to take them off your hands lol lol lol (for a suitable price of course). ;)
By the way are these converted from the Perry plastic light cavalry? Great conversions if they are.
Wonderful as always. :-* :-* :-*
I have just had a few of those TAG sculpts delivered and I hope I can paint them half as well as you have.
It looks super!
Amazing painting. Having painted these same figures (my quick tabletop standard, actually for a Warhammer Estalian army) I have a great appreciation for how skillfully you've done these, including turning them into flawless casting. At least, the ones I got took a bit of cleaning in awkward places.
I bought a handful only this week and the castings were fine, with just a few seconds required per figure to remove some very minor flash. No mould lines at all.
Which ruleset are you using?
I'm going to base the miniatures up so they can be used, with a little fudging, mainly for Furioso, Impetus and Swordpoint (a Swordpoint event was what instigated the army, though it's impossible to get a Spanish Italian Wars army to look right with those rules!)
Not much help but I try to base my armies up for as many different systems as possible nowadays. Re-basing is the devil.
I agree, that rebasing is the devil :D, I am also working on a swordpoint army. But now I am thinking about using 60x50 for infantry and 60*80 for cavarly in the same way David Imrie is doing his Early HYW. Which looks very cool.
Anyway I find it very hard to find the right base size. The bigger, the more dynamic the group looks, but than it isn't as useable for different rulesets.
About armylists, for my Spanish army, I currently like the WAB: El Cid armylist as that one gives more options than the the Swordpoints armylist..
I'm a little confused. o_o o_o o_o o_o
Isn't this army set in the very early 1500s for the Italian Wars not the 1100's for the Reconquista. Do you have your threads mixed up ??? ???
That is my experience too. I have three boxes sitting waiting to be opened at the moment; I refuse allow myself to open them yet so as to give impetus to the units I'm currently working on lol
To be fair mine were from a few years ago, perhaps the moulds were renewed since then. I just remember having quite a lot of cleanup to do with mine. Certainly not casting shade on TAG or the figures; both are great. I simply added that aspect as a testament to your skills at getting the best from the models. :D
Amazing! :-*
I really like those, the muted colours are great. And that white shirt, looks like it's just back from the dry cleaners!
Very nice indeed. I reconise a couple as TAG figures but not all. Have you done some head swaps or used different manufacturors?
excellent work, rich colours but you have managed to convey a sense of grim determination and stoic resolve in the forces of el gran capitan.
This is a bit after your period but inspiring nonetheless
http://tapestries.flandesenhispania.org/index.php/The_Conquest_of_Tunis_series
The original illustrations are displayed in Vienna at the Kunsthisrisches Muzeum- I spent a long time studying them both times I saw them.
Also worth a visit is the Imperial Armoury in Vienna.
That book was the result of me having a reader's pass to the British Library I was able to charm the young Frenchmen working at the photocopy counter into printing off the account by Guicciardini from the 1745 Goddard translation ( the Clough translation is abridged and omits the battle accounts) for free. If you want I can scan and send it to you by email.
I've emailed you an image of a cavalry standard being borne aloft by the Jinetes . I am looking foreword to you adding some Jimetes with teh standard.
Have you seen the Condoittieri de ventura website, an incredible resource for the Italian Wars. Filled with descriptions of the various skirmishes and named commanders
https://condottieridiventura.it/1500/
Before you go, you might want to get a copy of the book containing the "cartoons", Der Kriegszug Kaiser Karls V. gegen Tunis: Kartons und Tapisserien (https://www.amazon.com/Kriegszug-Kaiser-Karls-gegen-Tunis/dp/3854970137). According to Daniel S., some of the "cartoons" are so high up on the walls, that you can't see it properly, so this book is of help, unfortunately, it's only in German. The depictions of North Africans and scenery is better than the ones in the Pastrana Tapestries, though I don't see any body armor among the Tunisians. Eduardo de Mesa's Los tercios de las campañas del Mediterráneo s. XVI (Norte de África) references the tapestries and Ángel García Pinto's plates are based off of them.
It looks very much like the Kunsthisrisches Muzeum needs to be added to my post Covid to do list!
Great looking arquebusers. And I am really looking forward to seeing some Italian wars from toofatlardies. Got a link to the post about it?
Beautiful figures
Brilliant stuff as usual 👏
I do hope we get to play a game some day 🙏
Super arquebusiers, Darrell!
Thanks, ill check out there Twitter.
Great looking bases of shot! :D
You are certainly developing a fabulous collection mate
excellent stuff, hopefully one day I can fight it on the tabletop
I've run out of unpainted Italian wars figure so I have nothing I can send your way
First rate stuff as ever and very useful for those of us beginning our own Spanish collections.
Steel fist just previewed some new Italian Wars Arquebusiers to be sent to casting in a week or two. :D
I think I'm finally beginning to admit that I cannot justify buying any more miniatures lol lol
That's some lead pile Atheling.
I've just opened an A4 box full of Venexia Italian Wars 15mm purchased about 3 years ago. It felt like a mini Christmas. I'll be diligently following your painting schemes as I set about them.
Steel fist just previewed some new Italian Wars Arquebusiers to be sent to casting in a week or two. :D
Plenty more to come :)
Lovely!
The brass of the cannon looks exceptionally good - the colour and shine is just right for really brass.
lovely painting
Sword and Buckler figures are brilliant. :o
(Incidentally, apart from great painting the photos are really sharp. What camera are you using? Anything on your blog detailing camera \ lighting set up? I couldn't find anything.)
Exceptional work. I really like how you've used the green.
Just. So. Good. Such great work.
Great painting and photography as usual Darrell
One problem I find with close ups is that they inevitably reveal tiny bare patches or flaws that I cannot see with the naked eye (even with magnifiers) and so this means that I often have to touch up and photograph again.
I never see any such flaws with yours though - is this something you have to do - I suspect the reason it happens to me is that I paint quite quickly but i get the impression you are very methodical and diligent in your approach, the result of winch is the superb quality
I'm interested to know
Gorgeous painting, what a magnificent army :-*
Great painting on your Rodeleros, i was planning on building and painting a
Spanish army next mainly from TAG, keep up the good work !
Brian
Absolutely love the minis, great painwork!
More beautiful additions to the collection mate 👌
Those are really gorgeous and fit the rest of the collection very well.
Which leads me to ask, when will be get another overview shot? For, well, reasons.
Cheers Gareth, two 64 figure pike blocks to come! o_o :o
Just a couple of 48 figure pike blocks left for me and I have two functioning armies, which reminds, I need to post some updates.
I have two 96 fig ones and they were a right slog
Hello,
Just superb !!
Nikkobourges
Those rodeleros are just fantastic. :-* :-* :-* :-*
Steel Fist do a range of Renaissance Knights you could try
although not sure they sell the horses individually.
Other suggestions would be Mirliton, or possibly Wargames Design Workshop might have something? They sell a few different older ranges like QT and old Dixon. They sell horses individually (https://wargamesdesignworkshop.co.uk/product-category/animals-fantasy-pulp-and-sci-fi/animals/horse/) although I don't know how big the TAG guys are, so might not fit.
A bit of a tricky one... How about trying Redoubt Enterprises? I don't know about their Renaissance stuff, but I have got some of their ACW figures, and they're probably what you'd call a more modern style. They also sell horses individually.
Fantastic work! These are superbly painted!
Cracking looking units. The charge across the river really is fantastic.
Sorry to hear you have been ill. Perhaps you can find a different set of rules to use what you have painted, rather than having to progress through the lead pile?
rather bloody spiffing sir
I can get ordinarily into quite a "Zen" like state when I'm painting which has been difficult if not impossible of late which is very worrying.
I suppose my only suggestion here, would be to not try to force it. Accept (for a short while) that doing smaller sints of painting is the way to go. Then perhaps before you know it you will be back to the Zen state, without planning to be. With the head if often seems that approaching things obliquely works better than trying to force it. Just a suggestion from some of my own experiences.
Lovely work, the unit looks great!
Love the unit :-* This is not a period that I game but your painting makes a strong argument for it.
Love what you are doing. Italian Wars was the first
club campaign I was ever involved in. The army long
since sold on & I doubt I'll muster up the enthusiasm,
or money, for another full army...but a skirmish game
using the nice figures now available, & inspired by your
work, well that is a real possibility.
;)
Great looking unit. I do like the coloured tack on the horses - might try this if I’m feeling brave rather than my normal black.
Beautiful!
Brilliant stuff, beautiful!
Have you written anywhere, or could you, a how-to of how you do your basing? It's so clean and elegant; it's how I'd like mine to look, but I never quite get the colours or the balance of ground to vegetation/grass etc. right when I base figures.
Amazing work once again, you're one of my favorite painters!
Great stuff as usual - very inspirational!
Thanks for posting that link to your basing guide, much appreciated. Has never occurred to me to mix different grades of sand! Amazing how simple things make such a difference
Does not forbode well….. nice work mate
Such an inspiration to catch up with this thread. :-*
When I first saw the 'wounded' Landsknecht I thought he was to be
part of a diorama with the kneeling prisoner, bending over to ask,
'Are you comphy there mate?' lol lol lol