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Author Topic: Italian Wars - Look at my Codpiece - updated Jan 2015  (Read 26077 times)

Offline Axebreaker

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2011, 09:34:59 AM »
Awesome!! :-* :-*

Christopher

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2011, 09:43:51 AM »
Lovely,lovely :-* :-*
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Offline Arlequín

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2011, 10:46:46 AM »
What they all said....  :-*

Offline Rutiguer2701

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2011, 10:21:31 PM »
Great paintjob! Superb miniatures, indeed.

I love the awesome outcome. Your arquebusiers are some of the best minis of yours, I think. Well done.
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Offline JollyBob

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2011, 10:38:53 AM »
Beautiful.  :-* Nothing like seeing your troops all arrayed in their finery. Top job that man.

Looking at the footprint they have on the table I know that I'm going to have to but loads more pike o_o

And cannon.  8)

Offline DowVooVoo

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2011, 10:50:13 AM »
Very nice love them. :-* :-*

Offline Hubbynz

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2011, 05:36:12 AM »
Great looking army!!!

Offline tanktastic43

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2011, 10:39:35 AM »
Very nice. Good job!

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Offline janner

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2011, 11:34:17 AM »
Very pretty  :)

Offline majorsmith

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Re: Italian Wars
« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2011, 06:02:22 PM »
Amazing stuff! Really love the renaissance

Offline valleyboy

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Re: Italian Wars - Look at my Codpiece - updated Jan 2015
« Reply #25 on: January 09, 2015, 05:41:54 AM »
This Threadomancy project is a superb idea and just what I need to give me a kick in the backside and keep me on track

Background to the project

I've always been a 15mm gamer and have always had a hankering to collect some Italian Wars stuff having had my original inspiration from pictures in early editions of Miniature Wargames.

Around 4 years ago I came across the Artizan range and took the plunge and bought a few units and began painting them up. I think I posted early pics in one of the "Look what I painted in  May or whatever month 20xx" threads and also took up a challenge with Levied Troop to use as many colours as I could in completing 1 figure - I think I managed 49 if I recall - I think LT managed more - this was our "my codpiece is bigger than your challenge" and was hosted on an early version of WD3 and with a forum hosting change is lost in cyberspace forever.

I gradually acquired more over the years including being given some as a Christmas Gift from wargames mate Giles Allison and quietly painted them a unit at the time. By 2011 I'd managed this lot on the first page of this thread and remember painting some Eureka Gendarmes for an LPL entry one year and in the following year painted up 12 Artizan Swiss Pike for another LPL entry and I think some more Gendarmes by Eureka. That's as far as I got until last year when I painted another 12 to complete the Swiss Unit

The other missing bit has of course been terrain - being a 15mm gamer I didn't have any suitable stuff apart from an old GW paper building but I later picked up some TSS buildings on a trip home to the UK at Salute and got these finished  as background for the LPL entries.

So what's my plan? - two parts - Paint more figures and secondly produce some 28mm terrain

Where am I up to now?

As usual I've been flitting from one thing to another
Additional completed units as of today are below - these are 1st lot of Swiss Pike




Here's a second unit finished in December 2014 awaiting basing and a flag


The rest are here - so I have another 48 Swiss Pike to paint and I think I'm going to do these in yellow garb


As for more Landsknecht - I've manged another unit again last month



Because there were 4 spare figures I ordered another unit of 20 so they wouldn't feel lonely lol. I think they are on their way to NZ as I type

Buildings - yes another incomplete part of the project - I bought some generic buildings from warbases a few years ago, this is as far as I'd got 6 months ago when we moved house




This a today photo! So they are on the list for completion


Trees big enough for 28mm games just needing the bases finished - a mixture of wubwewised horsehair from Antenoceti's workshop and Woodland Scenic armatures
I think I started these in November






just the bases to finish as they are today


More terrain - various walls and hedges will need to be done, this is the state of play today




Finally back to figures
Foundry Gendarmes


Old Glory Landsknechts


and Finally the Current WIP
What Old Glory call Swiss and Italian Pikemen


So that sums it up... this is what I'd like to attempt to get done - i'm hoping the variety and ability to flit from figures to terrain will  keep me fresh

As many of the figures that I can get through
Finish the trees, Italian buildings and make some walls, fields, hedges etc

Oh - and we're moving house in 6 weeks and I've got a wargames room to put together ::)
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Offline pocoloco

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Re: Italian Wars - Look at my Codpiece - updated Jan 2015
« Reply #26 on: January 09, 2015, 06:12:20 AM »
What an amazing army and Project!  :-*

Will you include baggage train(s) and camp followers and such at some point?

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Italian Wars - Look at my Codpiece - updated Jan 2015
« Reply #27 on: January 09, 2015, 07:41:53 AM »
Astonishing ambition Kerry  :o  :-*
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Offline janner

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Re: Italian Wars - Look at my Codpiece - updated Jan 2015
« Reply #28 on: January 09, 2015, 12:04:08 PM »
You've certainly got the bit between your teeth  :D

Offline Duke Donald

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Re: Italian Wars - Look at my Codpiece - updated Jan 2015
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2015, 02:02:43 PM »
Beautiful and that's an impressive number of figures and terrain pieces underway. I doubt the project will be finished before the move  ;); good luck for your move BTW!

 

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