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Title: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Stuart on 17 June 2013, 06:15:49 PM

Hello, i've reached a little milestone in my project so I thought i'd share it, here we have a complement of Tudor demilancers c.1513.

Stuart

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: FramFramson on 17 June 2013, 06:21:11 PM

What a lovely bunch!

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Jeff965 on 17 June 2013, 06:31:13 PM

Fantastic painting please tell me those flags are ready made ones otherwise I'm going to cry at my ineptitude lol

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Dalauppror on 17 June 2013, 06:34:11 PM

Stunning work !!!  :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: painterman on 17 June 2013, 10:46:17 PM

Jeff95
I'll pass you the handkerchief, as they are all handpainted flags I'm afraid!
A Wonderful sight.
Simon.

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Bugsda on 17 June 2013, 11:17:43 PM

Bloody hell! They are beautiful  :-*

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 17 June 2013, 11:27:22 PM

Absolutely stunning  :-* :-*

As one would expect  :)

cheers

James

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Sixmilletoe on 17 June 2013, 11:31:52 PM

gorgeous! :-*

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: AlyMorrison on 17 June 2013, 11:35:56 PM

Inspiring .....
As always...

All the best.  Aly

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Captain Blood on 17 June 2013, 11:52:08 PM

Top stuff Stuart  :-*

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: carlos marighela on 18 June 2013, 05:42:19 AM

Wow!! Especially the banners. :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: DAVE A on 18 June 2013, 09:30:59 PM

Nice one Stuart, they look fantastic!

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 18 June 2013, 10:03:20 PM

Lovely. What's the difference between demilancers and knights? And please no answers like, 'about 150 years'.

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Stuart on 18 June 2013, 10:20:10 PM

They were known as Demi lancers as they carried a Demi lance. In effect they were medium cavalry and many were indeed knights. They came about owing to a lack of heavy horses in the early tudor period.

At the start, around 1500 they wore full armour but this soon gave way to three quarter armour and open faced helmets as the 16 c went on.

In the period I'm interested in, 1513, they were roughly equivalent to the French 'archer' cavalry.

Stuart

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: Stuart on 18 June 2013, 10:29:51 PM

Money probably played a part too as well as the climate in which they fought, certainly in England's case they would soon prove effective as 'heavy' cavalry against the scots and Irish but not as cumbersome and costly as a man at arms.

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: redzed on 18 June 2013, 10:46:42 PM

outstanding, a real joy to look at :)

Title: Re: Early Tudor Demilancers
Post by: janner on 19 June 2013, 07:13:26 AM

More eye candy - fabulous work  :D