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Author Topic: Charlie's 15th century - Some long-overdue Burgundians! (Feb 28)  (Read 152783 times)

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Halberdiers, rebased for the third time (Nov 10th)
« Reply #585 on: November 11, 2022, 06:10:30 PM »
Pray tell what caused your dislike of plastics?

Oh you misunderstand me, I do not dislike plastics at all! This whole collection is a mix of plastic and metal, it just happens that this unit is all metal.

I have found though that the plastic Perry kits don't quite work to my eye for this sort of pose, with the  polearms at 45 degrees or lowered. So I make a lot of use of the comparatively very small range of Perry metals for my pike and polearm units.

Offline HappyChappy439

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Halberdiers, rebased for the third time (Nov 10th)
« Reply #586 on: November 12, 2022, 01:03:35 AM »
The rebased unit looks great! Agreed that the 'forest of polearms' look is really striking, especially for the formations of proto-landsknecht of the era!

Offline magyar

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Halberdiers, rebased for the third time (Nov 10th)
« Reply #587 on: November 12, 2022, 10:08:15 AM »
Lovely lineup! A most impressive cold steel forest  :).

Offline bigredbat

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Halberdiers, rebased for the third time (Nov 10th)
« Reply #588 on: November 13, 2022, 01:07:25 PM »
Those are superb!  Love your units.

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Halberdiers, rebased for the third time (Nov 10th)
« Reply #589 on: November 15, 2022, 05:46:19 PM »
The rebased unit looks great! Agreed that the 'forest of polearms' look is really striking, especially for the formations of proto-landsknecht of the era!

Those are superb!  Love your units.

Lovely lineup! A most impressive cold steel forest  :).

Thanks all!

Offline DalyDR

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Halberdiers, rebased for the third time (Nov 10th)
« Reply #590 on: November 16, 2022, 12:30:06 AM »
That's a wonderful looking group of halberdiers.  They really present the appearance of being just about to make contact with their foe.

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #591 on: November 23, 2022, 08:51:53 PM »
I've written a brief guide for interchangeable flags on my blog, as several people have asked me how it's done in the past.

I'm certainly not the only person doing flags like this and can't claim credit for the idea. I can't actually remember where I first saw it done...

This is just showing how I do it, and should have a few useful tips in there even if you don't use my method in its entirety.

https://fullharness.blogspot.com/2022/11/guide-for-interchangeable-flags.html




Offline HappyChappy439

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #592 on: November 24, 2022, 11:21:33 AM »
Thanks for posting this guide! That's really useful information!

I've mostly been in the brass-tube camp for a while, and definitely agree that your method is much more seamless, thanks for sharing!

Offline whill4

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #593 on: November 24, 2022, 02:52:29 PM »
Thank you for the tutorial.

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #594 on: November 24, 2022, 02:57:32 PM »
Great tutorial, Charlie!  :-*

I could see using a similar technique for gluing flags on staffs which are too short.

Offline magyar

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #595 on: December 01, 2022, 04:17:19 PM »
Charlie, thanks for sharing, quite useful!

Offline valleyboy

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #596 on: December 02, 2022, 07:01:19 PM »
Excellent, well done, I might modify my technique then which is to use hollow plastic tube as this seems better
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Winston Churchill

Online Pattus Magnus

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Guide for interchangeable flags (Nov 23rd)
« Reply #597 on: December 02, 2022, 08:00:19 PM »
That approach is new to me, so thanks for sharing it! I’ll have to give it a try soon.

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Burgundian flag sheets! (Dec 4th)
« Reply #598 on: December 04, 2022, 08:06:07 PM »
I'm glad you've all found it useful!

Now I've put together three A4 sheets of flags which you are free to download and use.

Full-size images on the blog, plus biographical details of each historical personality featured - https://fullharness.blogspot.com/





« Last Edit: December 04, 2022, 08:08:28 PM by Charlie_ »

Offline MaleGriffin

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Re: Charlie's 15th century - Burgundian flag sheets! (Dec 4th)
« Reply #599 on: December 04, 2022, 09:21:42 PM »
Lovely! Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic flags!
Hoc quoque transibit
Sanguinem sistit semper

 

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