Friday 8 January 2016

From Alex S - More 28mm Venetians for Italian Wars (313 points)

All this week on the street was a bit cold (- 25), so I almost did not come out of the house, doing household chores and painting instead. (-25 - sounds warm to me - GB)

So I made one squad of 20 swordsmen. Again, I used a set of brothers Perry but different, and some miniatures archaic look that symbolizes what are mercenaries of the small states, which are not so developed military.

The banner looks like a dirty rag. I can say, "Oh, this is to 'support' the image of the army, carried through a long time on the battlefield!" But to be honest: "I simply did not get it done."


Next detachment - a mercenary knights (10 men). They were the backbone of the army condottieri. Again I used the Perry Miniatures, and used an airbrush to paint the armor. I liked the result. Do you like it?


Next detachment (yes, yes, you know who the authors of these wonderful miniatures) - a unit of mercenary handgunners (20 men). Chances are, if judged by the flag - Swiss. Why not? "No money - no Swiss, but there is money - there is the Swiss".


Next work - colonello, a junior officer in the army condottieri. This miniature is already done, Peter, and I hope that I was able to even be a little bit as well as he.



Finally, you can see I made this week for the Venetian army in a single photo. I did some Napoleonics miniatures, but they are not quite finished, and I hope to introduce them to you next Friday.

Total for today 11 horsemen and 40 infantry miniatures, for 310 points.


Well, a points bomb to start things off today. Great works on these fellows Alex - this period is one I am really interested in, but when I see the work (airbrushing!) that it seems to demand, I get intimidated for sure.  My favourite in this bunch is certainly the heavy cavalry - always impressive, and when gaming I hope to send lads like these straight down the throats of my opponents...of course, they always seem to have pikes, but I digress... 
And the banners look fine as far as I'm concerned - an "experienced" looking banner is a quality banner.  Worth a few extra points to this (now very cold) minion. Great work! Your initial points goal is already in sight...can't wait to see the Napoleonics next week!

17 comments:

  1. Great units. They look suitably mercenary

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  2. Alex
    Nice bunch of gritty looking Venetians. I like your flags and your commander! I have never worked with an Airbrush (likely on my wife's not-for-Peter list along with chainsaws and nail guns) but it does the job nicely in your hands.
    Cheers PD

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  3. Wonderful stuff Alex! I really like your condottieri captain.

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  4. Very nice they look like properly disrepuatble mercenearies.

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  5. Nice strike force, Alex! They do have a travel worn look on them that I really like!

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  6. I have been greatly impressed with the renaissance figures in the challenge and you are mostly responsible. These are fantastic.

    (and yes I do like thae airbrush armour)

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  7. A decent bomb alright , well done

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  8. Very nice work there! They certainly look the part!

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  9. Fantastic work Alex. I think the Officer is my favorite though. The pose and your use of color all come together very well.

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  10. Nice work on these hard-bitten mercs, well done!

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  11. Wowsers, great points bomb Alex!

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  12. Very impressive brushwork on these sir.

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  13. I love the coherent and dusty look they have.

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  14. Many thanks to all who wrote a commentary. I am very glad that you like my work and you just say so. In our country it is not accepted to receive such good reviews (if you do not Kirill Kanaev, of course). I have a big incentive to work on thanks to all of you. Thank you.

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  15. I never thought of airbrushing metallics before. I'll have to give it a shot sometime, as I like your results!

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