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Author Topic: Charlie's 15th century - Some long-overdue Burgundians! (Feb 28)  (Read 152670 times)

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - light cavalry re-basing (4th August)
« Reply #285 on: August 04, 2019, 08:44:28 PM »
Good stuff Charlie. Like the light cavalry very much.

The Steel Fist heads do look a little top heavy on the Perry plastic bodies, but that may just be the angle of the photograph.

Offline jamesmanto

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - light cavalry re-basing (4th August)
« Reply #286 on: August 04, 2019, 10:11:55 PM »
Yeah the new basing scheme is looking great!
Especially the crossbows

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - light cavalry re-basing (4th August)
« Reply #287 on: August 05, 2019, 11:19:21 AM »
Agree - more tufts isn't a bad thing for troops that would go through a little uneven ground.

And I like the white horse - well done!
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Re: Charlie's 15th century - light cavalry re-basing (4th August)
« Reply #288 on: August 06, 2019, 01:39:53 PM »
very impressive... i hope we get to see the new units on here aswell!

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - light cavalry re-basing (4th August)
« Reply #289 on: August 14, 2019, 10:05:19 PM »
A little late to this thread, but a hearty 'well done' from me  :)

Lots of inspiration and admiration.

Offline SirGromit1879

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - light cavalry re-basing (4th August)
« Reply #290 on: August 16, 2019, 06:32:47 PM »
That massed cavalry is a sight to behold reminds me of the charge of the Rohiran!. Nice work on the light cavalry too, they look really organic as if they are chasing a fleeing army down. What are your plans after the pike block and mounted crossbowmen?

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #291 on: January 18, 2020, 08:04:48 PM »
Wow, I haven't updated this thread since last summer - time to show what I've been up to then!

As part of my rebasing project I've tackled my pikemen, and the same time added a third unit. I've also been doing my polearm infantry, but that won't be done for another couple of weeks.

Previously I had one 'generic' pike unit, and one Swiss unit. I've taken the opportunity to smarten up the first unit, re-organise both of them a bit, get rid of a few ugly models in the Swiss unit that were letting the side down, and bring to the front a few nice-looking ones that were previously hidden in shadows in the second rank.

This Swiss unit only ever appeared in one game before I was thinking about hacking them apart and rebasing them. I'm glad I did it though, they look much better. Previously there were 48 of them, in 4 ranks of 12, now it's 50 in 5 ranks of 10, so they have a bit more depth. Before I had the front two ranks based in fours on 40x40mm bases - this limited how I could pose them, and putting them in larger groups (two 40x80 bases, and 40x40) has let me get a more natural look. It's a shame that multi-basing them the first time round turns out to be just a practice, and there's always going to be a lot of wasted bases, sand, grass and tufts to get it perfect the second time round, but that just seems to be the way it is!

The rear ranks are now based in groups, some 2s, some 3s, some 6s or 8s.....I wanted to be able to remove a few to indicate casualties, though I don't actually use rules with individual casualty removal anymore, so this will just be for aesthetic purposes.

I've also taken the opportunity to put some of my new conversions in there - I have already talked about this in a separate thread, I won't repeat it here, but I'm summarised it all in two images!

The third unit is completely new.

The 'Swiss' unit is 50-strong, the other two are 40-strong. The idea is all of them can be used as German or Swiss mercenaries, and the two smaller units also as Flemish militia, as I've avoided putting any big feathers or turbans in there. They will see lots of use as all three sorts in my War of Burgundian Succession project (more on that at a later date).

The 'flag' position man of each unit is based individually so they can be swapped out, and I've got a couple of extra pike models so the units can be fielded without flags. In these pics I've go the two smaller units without flags, and the bigger one with a made-up flag of my own.

These units are pretty much all metal - funny how, like many, I started this project drawn in by the wonderful Perry plastics, but now most of my infantry units are almost entirely metal. The bulk of these are metal Perry pikemen (with headswaps everywhere), plus a few carefully chosen Foundry Swiss, some Steel Fist 'armoured Swiss front-rankers' , some plastic Perrys conversions, and a few of my Old Glory conversions.

Enjoy!





















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Offline Atheling

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #292 on: January 18, 2020, 09:24:24 PM »
They're worked out really well Charlie  :-*

You're righteously proud of those converted pike!

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #293 on: January 18, 2020, 11:02:57 PM »
See now this is what I was talking about. This looks insanely cool! All 3 of your pike blocks next to each other is a sight to behold. It also makes me very jealous. Excellent work! The conversions blend in perfectly too!

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #294 on: January 19, 2020, 09:39:23 AM »
Fantastic job!!! Congrats!
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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #295 on: January 19, 2020, 10:07:25 AM »
Nicely done - quite the array you have there 8) :-*
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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #296 on: January 19, 2020, 10:13:19 AM »
Now THAT is what a pike block looks like  :-* :-*

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #297 on: January 19, 2020, 12:43:03 PM »
Excellent work! The conversions blend in perfectly!

Offline jamesmanto

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #298 on: January 26, 2020, 06:37:22 PM »
sigh...
that's how I've always wanted my Swiss to look, but they were one of my earlier armies/projects.

Nicely done. Bet they scare the crap out of Charles!

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - a parade of pikes!!!! (Jan 18)
« Reply #299 on: January 26, 2020, 09:42:00 PM »
sigh...
that's how I've always wanted my Swiss to look, but they were one of my earlier armies/projects.

Nicely done. Bet they scare the crap out of Charles!

Funnily enough, they're going to be used after the death of Charles the Bold - the War of Burgundian Succession. At first they actually fought on the 'Burgundian' side against the French, but later switched sides.
That's when they are fielded as Swiss. They will also be used as 'just' Germans, fighting on the Burgundian side.

 

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