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 projectI'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
. 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
19 September 2010, 06:53:43 PM
