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es but goldies connoisseur miniatures heroes generals this venerable redoubt miniatures figure was also kindly given to me by mark freeth a new plume spiffed him up a bit perry italian mounted crossbowmen some plastic riders some metal all on plastic horses perry plastics painted as german knights steel fist plumes added a terrific little hinchcliffe organ gun must be over 40 years old with a perry crew yet more mounted crossbows this time perry and casting room miniatures a bit of a change warlord falschirmjager pak 40 i did as part of a larger commission camp scene perry figures magista militum tents some smashing perry stradiots i later added another 6 tag figures which mixed in nicely fabulous 40 year old connoisseur sculpts given a new lease of life with some perry heads swiss halberds steel fist perry foundry and connoisseur figures perry figures for the camp scene perry plastics with added steel fist plumes become italian knights the fourth landsknecht pike block number 5 is going to be the first unit for 2021 casting room miniatures jinetes with a couple of perry plastics to make up the numbers steel fist commanders with an artizan miniatures advisor steel fist miniatures gendarmes set of by pete s flags banners casting room miniatures and perry swordsmen italian mercenaries perry and connoisseur miniatures with a lot of italian and tudor head swaps perry and tag figures make up these florentine militia pike posted by chris cornwell at 1 02 2021 03 22 00 pm 8 comments friday 9 october 2020 swiss army complete a couple of steel fist heroes backed up by perry german knights supported by connoisseur coustilliers although i finished the swiss pike way back in march putting the finishing touches to the army seems to have taken ages granted there have been other projects taking over such as the landsknechts gendarmes a couple of ww2 commissions not to mention a strange diversion into 1 35th ww2 plus a ton of basing for a regular client all in all its been a very busy year the pike line so i m thrilled to have finished this army i ve added a lot of little touches which all add up in terms of time and the overall numbers extra stuff over the 6 pike blocks include 2 x 36 man units of halberdiers crossbowmen hand gunners german knights coustilliers to support them mounted crossbowmen a host of generals and individual hero figures for to the strongest plus 3 little camp scenes with associated tents labourers priests etc halberds and horse hang about the rear i have really enjoyed painting and creating this army its been a lot of fun and i m a bit sad to have finished it in fact i d happily do it all over again so if anyone wants to offer me a considerable wad of cash for this army i ll do another one camp scene manure and prayers the figures for this army were probably about 25 perry plastic backed up with similar quantities of perry metals and wargames foundry figures the rest being made up by steel fist and connoisseur miniatures i used a lot of the plastic mercenary set which was mixed up with the bill bow box plus some foot maa and both the wotr cavalry boxes all of those involved mixing up all the different heads and adding in quite a lot of the excellent metal swiss heads from perry and the amazing heads from steel fist i also had a careful look at the sf landsknecht figures and used a few of the plainer models as swiss once i d changed the heads likewise the connoisseur figures once they had new perry heads they scrubbed up very nicely particularly the coustlliers steel fist also do some lovely separate metal plumes which came in very handy uri command and heroes the flags came from pete s flags on e bay with the balance from flags of war both of whom i can t recommend highly enough they really set an army like this off i think i counted over 50 flags wire pikes came from northstar and tufts from all sorts of suppliers steel fist miniatures lead the halberdiers the camp bits were fun to do i made them up because i thought they would look nice and because they are a requirement for to the strongest rules the tents are resin models from magista militum and most of the figures are from the various perry metal camp follower sets set off with a couple of mdf kit wagons i had perry foot captains anyway there s a swiss army i ve had a couple of games with it and i was even going to enter a tournament with it for the first time in my life but i m pretty sure covid is going to put paid to that i m afraid not to worry it will get plenty of use perry crossbows with foundry handgunners posted by chris cornwell at 10 09 2020 11 48 00 am 3 comments saturday 23 may 2020 here come the landsknechts add caption so the late medieval early italian wars project now boasts about 300 burgundian infantry many of whom can double up as ropey italians about 80 burgundian knights and coustillier again many of whom can fill many roles about 70 later gendarmes 30 mounted crossbows and 300 swiss pike with about 50 swiss skirmishers time for some meat and potatoes the next thing i wanted were landsknechts lots of landsknechts i bought a bunch of wargames foundry figures that would fit the bill but really the whole point of doing landsknechts was to be able to use the jewel in the crown of the steel fist range which is incredible off the top of my head they do about 60 different figures all with different separate heads the combinations are enormous so far i ve only managed 2 x 48 man blocks plus about 20 arquebussier but it s coming along the original goal is for 6 blocks but i might well do more posted by chris cornwell at 5 23 2020 02 03 00 pm 9 comments labels flags of war landsknecht late medieval italian wars painting pete s flags steel fist wargames foundry friday 3 april 2020 gendarmes a bit of a comparison heavy french and italian cavalry when i finished the swiss pike my original intention was to launch straight into a pile of 200 landsknechts to give them some more opponents however i also had quite a large lead pile of cavalry to do first off was a couple of units of swiss and italian mounted crossbows that don t feature in this post and having done them i decided to try some of the many gendarmes and early 16th century knights that were also sitting in the box i had figures from 3 different manufacturers which i had accumulated over the past 6 months a dozen of the steelfist gendarmes 6 charging and 6 with upright lances 6 late 15th century knights from steelfist 8 gendarmes and 8 archer types from eureka and finally 24 foundry gendarmes only 12 of those finished so far so having painted all of the above in this last few weeks i thought i d give you a brief comparison steel fist gendarmes so first the steel fist figures i can find very little to say about this companies figures apart from unstinting praise beautiful sculpts great and enormously varied poses high quality casting and metal they are excellent figures they produce 2 different sets of gendarmes one charging one with lance upright all the figures and horses are different with separate heads and weapon arms and sheathed swords plumes are also separate so the permutations are enormous if you wanted to get super adventurous you could swap in some of their landsknecht heads or maybe perry ones the horses are all individual barded mounts if you want to find it there is amazing detail on them my only very small issue with these figures is that you might need to drill out the odd neck to get a better fit with whichever head you choose to place on whatever body these are outstanding figures the best way to buy them is as a set of 6 this way they come in at 5 a figure not cheap but generally you get what you pay for in this life steel fist again remarkable figures side show bob leading the charge now the bad news currently the gendarmes are out of stock and unavailable due to the current emergency i will be getting another dozen as soon as life returns to normal i urge you all to do the same but not until i have my order in earlier italian knights from steel fist somewhere along the way i bought 8 earlier knights on unarmoured horses these tie in well with the perry plastic set i replaced one of the heads with a perry one not as flamboyant as their later brethren but similar in style and quality separate heads and lance arms all of the steel fist figures look big nothing wrong with that and they are the same size as perry medievals eureka miniatures gendarmes with heavy cavalry support next up are the eureka miniatures lovely figures well cast great crisp detail separate lance arms alternative sword hammer mace arms and weapons these are really well thought out figures separate plumes lovely barded horses you can create a lot of variation with these figures price for these is 28 25 for a set of 8 which is very good value i will be getting another 8 of the gendarmes they also produce archer coustillier types which are nice although without the massive variations of the gendarmes good figures my only comment would be that are a little bit small not a lot but a little certainly when compared to perry and steelfist in their own units alongside each other they look absolutely fine but i would be reluctant to mix them in the same units with the other manufacturers eureka again very varied and clever designs foundry gendarmes finally we have wargames foundry wargames foundry are well wargames foundry consistent high quality sculpts to good standard they are sort of benchmark figures separate cast lances and sword scabbards the latter of which fit really neatly into a lug on the figure cast on heads the figures are fine albeit a tad dull all in a sitting lance upright pose little animation and i guess if you have read this blog you know i like a bit of animation there are basically 3 or 4 head variations on 2 body types then the horses i ve never been a huge fan of foundry horses to much shaggy pit pony for my liking i bought 7 different mounted packs of the gendarmes and there is only 1 barded horse type and 4 unarmoured horse however i can live with that what was a bit of a shock was the casting quality it was bloody awful massive lumps of flash mould lines the works 24 figures and horses took me about 4 hours to clean up and assemble which is a bit poor and after all foundry are charging premium prices for 30 year old sculpts i bought them on a deal which was great but if i had paid full list price for them i would have been disappointed compared to the more modern figures their age is showing but they paint up as fine as they always have another view of wargames foundry foundry head on all of these figures were a joy to paint and i m really pleased with them i set them off with a bunch of pete s flags which let s be honest always make average painted figures like mine look brilliant flags faces and bases that s all you need all banners from pete s flags posted by chris cornwell at 4 03 2020 11 10 00 pm 6 comments labels cavalry 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