From KenR : Italian Wars Gendarme 3 & Command (85)

This week's unit of Cavalry has something a bit different with it, a Command Stand, over the years I have always been really slack on Commanders and never have enough, something I hope to cure with this army.

8 x 28mm Cavalry at 10pts plus three flags for 83 more points for both the main total and the Renaissance Side Duel.

This week's Gendarme is again Foundry 28mm with a couple of Petes Flags to boot, as before I have taken my clothing colours and horse furniture cues from these flags using mostly blue, yellow, red and white.

Although the horses in the Foundry range are quite limited, you can get a good variation with mixing up the riders and the colour scheme.

The flags are those of Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro (7 June 1422 – 10 September 1482), he was one of the most successful condottieri of the Italian Renaissance, and Lord of Urbino from 1474.

He was employed throughout his life by the Sfozas of Milan, Florence, Naples and the Pope so would not be out of place in most armies.

Federico led a colourful life losing his right eye in a tournament (hence the scar painted over that eye) and is said to have had the top of his nose removed to improve the visibility with his other eye, contemporary portraits clearly show this rather extreme, but useful alteration. The figure is from the Perry's Miniatures metal range.

The standard bearer is a Perrys figure as well but is from the plastic Light Cavalry box set, I was looking around for some flag bearer figs and didn't think about these until I got a unit of them out to paint. The lightbulb went off and instead of a light Cavalry unit they will be now used as Standard Bearers.

That's it from the Italian Wars this week, next week there will be another Gendarme unit and a unit of Sword and Shield Light Infantry, must try to decide if it's time to start another pike block?

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Another magnificent entry Ken. I've said it before, but I'm really enjoying these entries and look forward to them each week. The command stand looks particularly fine, and you can never have too many commanders. And you can never have too many Pike Blocks (hint hint)! 

I've included the usual points for flags but I'm throwing in a couple extra for the added heraldic details you have on the figures themselves. That sort of attention to detail really makes these figures stand out. 

Lee