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Author Topic: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632  (Read 12723 times)

Offline Vanvlak

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2016, 03:46:43 PM »
Artillery, of course.  :D

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2016, 08:19:49 PM »
Artillery would be great, but I've started another horse unit, not cuirassiers this time.

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2016, 06:38:20 AM »
Harquebusier unit to join Pappenheim's battalia. The flag is similar to one used by Pappenheim so should fit.

The troopers have red coats of different shades. It's aesthetics only, since cavalry at that time probably wouldn't have worn uniforms.

Offline Metternich

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2016, 10:02:47 PM »
Those Harquebusiers are a truly lovely unit.  Bravo.

Offline flags_of_war

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2016, 08:27:49 AM »
Great work again. The new flags are on there way too :)

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2016, 06:59:34 PM »
Great work again. The new flags are on there way too :)

Eagerly awaiting them! :)

If I have to use one word to describe Piccolomini's regiment, I would use 'recycling'. The models are nearly all recycled one way or the other.

The horses have been part of an earlier regiment, painted using the old gw range, so matching with the new range to tidy up some brush mistakes was a headache, even the basing because they already had grass which didn't exactly match the others so had to scrape and even do grass on the areas where the old grass didn't budge. I still have a few of the old paints, the rim of the bases is Scorched Brown, though I had bought 2 pots from the local shop, the last stocks, and use them for bases only.

The ensign is a harquebusier captain with the right arm of the harquebusier ensign. The second trooper from the left of the second rank is a Scot Lancer with burgonet helmet, his right arm minus hand is from a swedish infantry officer and the hand is from the harquebusier captain. For Ottavio Piccolomini I used a cuirassier lifeguard and painting the casack red to be similar to his depiction by Snayers in the Lutzen painting, though here he wears three-quarters armour. All other models wear breastplate and/or buffcoat and helmet or hat.

Offline caveadsum1471

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #21 on: April 03, 2016, 02:22:08 PM »
Another lovely unit, I also like your earlier pike unit with lots of Flags, I have just finished painting 5 regiments for p&s but am now tempted to go back and add extra ensigns!
Best Iain

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2016, 06:15:01 PM »
Another lovely unit, I also like your earlier pike unit with lots of Flags, I have just finished painting 5 regiments for p&s but am now tempted to go back and add extra ensigns!
Best Iain

Cheers mate! :)

For that regiment used 4 flags representing a large unit, but for standard sized units 2.

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2016, 03:07:40 PM »
Wallenstein sends reinforcements to Tilly which would have liked extra men in 1632, though not some of their commanders.

I had a foot regiment painted in orange uniforms with the flags of the Tercio de St Amour. Since that regiment was raised in 1636 and later destroyed at Rocroi, it wasn't suitable for 1632. So I did the following alterations:
1) Changed the coat colour to dark red
2) Replaced the hats
3) Changed one nco with the sergeant from the Irish Brigade box
4) Added details like eyes
5) Replaced the flags
6) Tufts changed
7) Replaced drummer with a conversion of a musician with a jingling johnny (schellenbaum)

Not the best weather for photos 

The regiment now represents Berthold von Waldstein's regiment. He was a relative of the generalissimo and raised the regiment in 1628/9 (sources vary). Berthold fought at Lutzen, being wounded in the thigh at the last stages of the battle. The wound festered and he died later in Prague. The red of the coats is speculative - I chose the colour to match the Burgundian saltire on the flags - aesthetic obsessions. ::)

Flags as usual from flags of war :-*

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2016, 06:20:26 AM »
Some units done in the meantime........

Offline Warboss Nick

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2016, 10:30:02 PM »
Very nice Army, that shows what you can still do with the Warlord pike and shotte plastics.

Offline Paint Pig

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2016, 12:29:14 AM »
Great work, I'm dig'n it!  :-*
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Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2016, 06:30:49 PM »
Thanks for the feedback guys. Yes, the pike and shotte models by warlord games are a favourite of mine - a pity they are hardly releasing anything more for it, except the odd release here and there......... :-[

Offline Corso

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2016, 02:00:57 PM »
Added a commander, Otto Heinrich von Fugger. I hate to mix yellow, blue and red on the same model - so I used blue-grey and pale yellow - the red sash/garters tie the models to the rest of the army.

Models are warlord games and flag by flagsofwar.

Offline OSHIROmodels

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Re: Catholic-Imperialist Army 1632
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2016, 02:06:25 PM »
Very good  :)

Any chance of a group shot  :D

cheers

James
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