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Author Topic: Charlie's 15th century - Some long-overdue Burgundians! (Feb 28)  (Read 152633 times)

Offline painterman

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #225 on: December 09, 2018, 11:16:40 PM »
Hi Charlie
I'm liking the generic heraldry - works well with your armies. Assume you've done them on some software package?
Nice to see that the Steel Fist figures look 'at home' there too!!  ;)
Cheers, Simon.

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #226 on: December 09, 2018, 11:25:47 PM »
Hi Charlie
I'm liking the generic heraldry - works well with your armies. Assume you've done them on some software package?
Nice to see that the Steel Fist figures look 'at home' there too!!  ;)
Cheers, Simon.

Yeah I used this programme
http://inkwellideas.com/coat_of_arms/free-version/
Or at least as a starting point, and as a source for all the symbols. It annoyingly doesn't let you build them square-shaped (though it has a rectangles, and a variety of different shield shapes), so they all had to be then taken to GIMP (a free photoshop style thing). The ripples I did myself (took a long time to work out how to do them to look good, was worth it though I think).

And yes the Steel Fist figures fit in great - looking forward to future 15th century releases!!! Next year maybe??

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #227 on: December 10, 2018, 07:25:48 AM »
Very nice indeed
In hoc signo vinces

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Offline Utgaard

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #228 on: December 10, 2018, 08:13:21 AM »
Absolutely fantastic collection  - great work with the heraldry too!

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #229 on: December 11, 2018, 06:07:33 PM »
Glad you like it folks.

Which is your favourite flag?

Offline Breazer

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #230 on: December 13, 2018, 03:56:28 PM »
These are looking great Charlie. I think I like the red ones the most. But a lot of the commanders are very dynamic. The yellow commander for instance really stands out to me with his pale blond/white hair.

What is next?

Offline DintheDin

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Commanders, heraldry and flags! (9th Dec)
« Reply #231 on: December 13, 2018, 05:36:47 PM »
I agree for the yellow commander, but as it regards badges, I like most the swan and the hawk's lure!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!!! 66 of them... (19th Dec)
« Reply #232 on: December 19, 2018, 09:48:56 PM »
Ok, time to have a look at the cavalry situation.

I posted pictures of all the heavy cavalry together last September, back on page 6 of this same thread. Since then they have grown in number, so time for another group shot!

There are three heavy cavalry units, two of 16 and one of 18, plus various light cavalry, currently enough for two small units of 8.

This is just how it stands currently - I've got them to where I'm pretty happy with how they look in terms of posing and mix of different armour styles. There will be more sometime in the future, at which point no doubt they will be re-arranged with each new batch painted, but for now my attention is going to move elsewhere.

You'll recognise the flags from my last post.





This one features my 'green commander' from the previous post. As well as his personal banner, the unit's got a flag with his personal badge of a white swan, and several of them are in his green and white livery.








A shot of the first two units put together....




And all three units together! That's fifty horsemen.



And the same number, re-arranged into three ranks.




Then over to the light cavalry, which are currently arrayed in two small units. One features the aforementioned swan flag, the other the 'hawk's lure' flag of my 'red commander'. I've kept most of them free of livery coats for reasons of flexibility, and I prefer the multi-coloured look. There are a few in plain red which work well in the 'red unit', but I have plan sometime off in the future to add something to the plain red for another purpose....












Over the past few weeks I've been going back to all the old cavalry (the first ones I painted over a year ago), both re-doing the armour and re-varnishing them. I thought it would be a mammoth task, but in the end didn't take long, doing three every day. Was definitely worth it. I think if you go and look at some of the first pics I posted on this thread and compare the same models to how they look here, you'll agree they are vastly improved.

Offline Ogrob

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #233 on: December 20, 2018, 06:38:00 AM »
Your horses are really lovely. Such smooth coats and colours. Well done!

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #234 on: December 20, 2018, 11:30:36 AM »
you can't beat cavalry en masse. great stuff.

Offline Axebreaker

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #235 on: December 20, 2018, 11:35:06 AM »
Looks great!

Christopher

Offline Metternich

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #236 on: December 20, 2018, 06:26:53 PM »
Wow !  That is a mighty impressive force of cavalry !

Offline Tonhel

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #237 on: December 20, 2018, 08:00:09 PM »
Simply awesome!

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #238 on: December 21, 2018, 09:43:00 PM »
you can't beat cavalry en masse.

Agreed!

Thanks all, glad you like them.

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Cavalry on parade!!! 66 of them... (19th December)
« Reply #239 on: December 22, 2018, 09:33:39 AM »
Great show Charlie. Well done.  :-*

 

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