„Further Beyond“- A Landsknecht Hobbyproject

[Werit]

„Further Beyond“- A Landsknecht Hobbyproject
By Martin „Werit“ Dambacher

Hello and most welcome all together,

This is my very own landsknecht hobby-log and it will be full of colourful Landsknechts! My Name is Martin (more known under my nickname Werit) and lately became a member of Pro Gloria Miniatures. 

I am a hobbyist since 2002 – started with Games Workshop (who hasn’t?) and started historical wargaming in 2011: First with Napoleonic Prussians, later Frenchmen. After that, the American Civil War was my biggest project, having hundreds of miniatures painted.
In 2013, my attention went the so called Italian Wars – the first big clash of empires in the Renaissance: big pike-blocks and billows of black powder come to my mind right now!

This project-log will report about my ambition to build up a whole Landsknecht Army using Pro Gloria Miniatures, with all the newest releases. I’ll try to have updates regularly but as always, this depends on my private life and work.
The plan is the following: building up a big pike-block of 54 Landsknechts in an advancing pose, later 54 standing ones plus handgunners and all the new releases that come along with 2014.

The first step is finished! Here are 24 advancing landsknechts base coated, plus one finished test miniature – what do you think? Please let me know!



Right at the moment, I am sitting here with the other 23 miniatures and they give me quite a headache if it comes about all the different colour schemes I have to think of. I’ll let you know how I solved this problem next article!



So by this, same place same wave – Plus Ultra, imo sanctus ipse Karl V!

Cheers
Martin

[M.P.]

The project looks very promising, as for the test mini- very nice paintjob

[Captain Blood]

Lovely figures, but I don't envy you the painting of all those fiddly slashed sleeves and so on... Good luck! Look forward to seeing how they turn out.

[mrtn]

Nice test figure. I'd just grab a colour at random and start painting a leg here and an arm there. The landsknechts themselves didn't have a "colour scheme", why should you?
The few I painted I found it was easier to finish the inside of a slit before painting the outer cloth.

[Stuart]

Hi Martin

A promising start and your first figure looks fine to me, looking forward to seeing how your project develops with the forthcoming releases.

If you need some ideas for some colour schemes have a look at my Painting Landsknechts blog;

www.paintinglandsknechts.blogspot.com

Good Luck !

Stuart

[Werit]

Some recently painted Landsknechts, more will follow!



Martin

[Galloping Major]

Great progress 



www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

[OSHIROmodels]

Nice 

cheers

James

[Elbows]

Amazing stuff so far...particularly using white as a primer colour (I can't paint white minis for crap).

[Atheling]

Really good thus far  .

Darrell.

[Franz_Josef]

Coming along very nicely.

[Werit]

Hi all together   

The very first 24 miniatures are finished now!  I am very happy with them and I hope you like them as much as I do! I struggled a bit with painting as many colours as are necessary for the Italian wars campaign but all in all I get used to it and I think I have a plan for the next rogues.

I am going to splash on colours on them group-wise. By that I mean to grab six miniatures a time and paint on white or yellow on the legs or torsi.
After that, I paint on the main colour (for example green or blue) – and that’s it!  Just paint belts and shoes, flesh etc.
By this method I get a great effect with less effort – simply use another main colour on the next group as the one before and you get your colourful Landsknechts! As I will build up regiments or pike blocks of 54 men each, I will have quite a big variation within even with a painting technique like the ne explained above.

For the next 30 advancing mercenaries, I will try to get even more variety in colours and some more banners. Feel free to post a question to this blog entry any time and I will try to answer it as good as I can. 

Sadly, I haven’t based them yet as my MDF bases haven’t arrived and so I could only do a test base like you see on the pictures. I am not 100% satisfied with it but you can see for what I am looking.

So, finally, some pictures for you! Just take a look at this pike-wall – and other 30 to come!







So by this, same place same wave – Plus Ultra. Ad solis occasum!
Cheers
Martin

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid 

The base test looks fine to me and when it's on the figures (smaller area) I think it'll look fine 

cheers

James

[DonVoss]

Very cool looking unit, werit...

Like the testbase too.

Cheers,
Don

[warburton]

Looking good thus far.