(AP 2017) Landsknecht army

[FierceKitty]

Very fetching. The commander, however, looks as if he's just turned up for his dinner date with Don Giovanni.

[Dr Mathias]

Good work, I've never painted a pike unit- they sure do look cool

[Dr. Zombie]

I am in the process of painting some canons. Here I a quick work in progress picture.

[pocoloco]

Very nice work! 

Very envious of the project itself, I just don't have the guts to even think about starting a landsknecht project, not even a skirmish one... someday, someday... 

[Dr. Zombie]

The cannons are now finished. I tried to make some of the crew quite dirty as working cannon is dirty work. I am not sure if I have quite managed. The master gunners are clean and neat naturally.

[The Red Graf]

Looks pretty good. The one I wonder about quite often is whether there were any melanistic Cossacks, possibly absconding slaves of the Turks. Runaway serfs and slaves were welcome to join if they learned Ukrainian and professed themselves Orthodox believers, and there are records of Cossacks from very far afield (Italians, Spaniards, Englishmen). Was there a colour bar, or are we painting our shaven-headed axemen too uniformly in their skin tones?

Lot's of Ukrainians retrain the Tatar hair color and even a swarthier cast to their skin. I suspect that the Cossacks took in anybody that wanted to join. This is a bit after the period at hand, but Pushkin's grandfather was African and rose to high rank in the Czar's service.

[The Red Graf]

More on point, your army looks great.

[FierceKitty]

Lot's of Ukrainians retrain the Tatar hair color and even a swarthier cast to their skin. I suspect that the Cossacks took in anybody that wanted to join. This is a bit after the period at hand, but Pushkin's grandfather was African and rose to high rank in the Czar's service.

Mmmm, I remember that one. He was rather proud of it, too.

[Dr. Zombie]

Hmm. I guess it is time to do a status on my armypainter 2017 progress.

I managed to paint a unit of pikemen a unit of handgunners and two cannons. Not a complete failiure but not a smashing succes either. In my defence I must say I have been waiting on some kickstarter landsknechts to start building out some units I have planned. But a seemingly endless string of delays and excuses means that I am not counting on recieving anything until summer. That has put me somewhat of the whole project.

But then again Steel Fist has lovered their prices for their awesome minis so I have gotten some of them as the new prices fit more with my hobby budget. And I am now working up the courage to start stabbing som paint on them.

[Anselm van Helsing]

Guess that's the 28mm Landsknechts (Landschnecks!) Kickstarter? I'm waiting for mine too.

But I think your progress has been OK. The quality matters too, and your's are beautifully painted. 

[Dr. Zombie]

I have decided to revive this thread.

It died out because of a debackle with a landsknecht kickstarter. I got the models just around two years later that the supposed delivery date. And the minis were horrible! They were both miscast and had great big halos of flash around them and the detail was nowhere near what was shown in the kickstarter. And they suffer a great deal from blisterpack syndrome. I have had the minis in a box ever since. Once i an while i look in the box but always it made me sad.
But now i have decided that they are not going to break me! I am going to polish these turds up and make them at least passable for the gaming table.

Here is the first efforts. The handgunner bases also have some warlord minis mixed into them.

And just as I post this picture I am reminded to paint my base edges...

[OSHIROmodels]

They look great 

[voltan]

And just as I post this picture I am reminded to paint my base edges...

I get that a lot as well, though usually it's forgetting to remove random bits of flock off the figures.

As for the painting, you've made a good looking unit there.