Perry Miniatures Italian Men at Arms and Venetian Archers

[Atheling]

Hi,

This little lot was given to Michael at Salute.  Unfortunately there was a camera mishap and it took a little bit of time to get the pics on the net.

This is the sort of thing you can expect but finished with high quality basing and obviously more minis :





There are high quality pics of the mini's grouped together on my Gewalthaufen Blog:

http://gewalthaufen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/painted-perry-miniatures-men-at-arms-of.html

Thanks for looking,
Darrell.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

The pictures on Gewalthaufen look very nice – well done

What does "Gewalthaufen" mean in English? – a heap of trouble?

[Atheling]

The pictures on Gewalthaufen look very nice – well done

Thanks mick- they were a pleasure to paint though some of the gambesons and aketons had me going potty at one stage 

What does "Gewalthaufen" mean in English? – a heap of trouble?

I'll let Wiki do the talking..... quite nasty really.....

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewalthaufen

Hope that helps?

Cheers,
Darrell.

[Arlequín]

What does "Gewalthaufen" mean in English? – a heap of trouble?

Pretty much... 'heap of trouble' or 'pile of trouble' is idiomatic for the literal translation 'pile of violence', which we wouldn't say.  


Nice figures too Darrell... very impressive. 

[Paul]

Very nice Darrel..

Gewalt doesn´t necessary translate as Violence..that´s the more common modern use of the word Gewalt, but it can also mean control or force. Staatsgewalt for example  doesn´t translate to or mean Stateviolence..(a matter of perspective though ) and haufen, troop/band of Brothers depending on context (idiomatic) so Gewalthaufen would more likely be meant (in the period) as troop of force, not violence...though a modern direct Translation could indeed be violent heap/Pile/stack..even mob/crowd/rabble.

[Arlequín]

I'll tick 'meeting a vague German' off my bucket list then. 

[Atheling]

Thanks for the interesting comments guys  

I've been wracking my (poor) brains to remember where I came up with the idea of the name, given at the time the blog was going to deal with the 'Burgindian Wars I think it was in reference to a 'square' of Swiss(?) Of possibly a 'square' of Landskechts(?). Swiss are more likely given my line of thinking at the time.

And thanks the compliments of course  

Darrell.

[DonVoss]

Love the archers. These are still missing in my collection, now I want them...
The short bows are just lovely...

The heavys are very cool too.

Thanx,
Don

[Atheling]

Love the archers. These are still missing in my collection, now I want them...
The short bows are just lovely...

The heavys are very cool too.

Thanx,
Don

Thanks Don, they were a pleasure to paint and to be honest I really didn't expect Michael to move into the Italian Wars etc so they came as a real treat to me too.

I do hope that one day we may see an expansion thought with all the plastic boxed sets I wonder if there's any need?

Darrell.