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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