Tuesday, 12 March 2019

From KenR : 28mm Italian Wars Mounted Crossbow & Command (90 Points)


The final post for Team Tuesday has to be some more Italian Wars and to keep my personal challenge of a unit of Cavalry a week going here are some more Mounted Crossbow along with something you were all praying for another Cardinal Command Stand 😎


The six figures of the Mounted Crossbow are all from the plastic Light Cavalry box set with the ubiquitous addition of one of Petes Flags.

From the finery of the Gendarme to the "smart but casual" Squires we have reached the pit of Scum and Villany with these boys. There is no uniform here just a mix match of clothing and armour, most of it probably looted.




In addition to these the Command Stand features the remaining 2 Clergy figures from the Perry's range which didnt go on the first Papal Command Stand I did a few weeks ago plus the usual plastic Standard Bearer and ....... yep you guessed it a Pete's Flag.


Points wise this is a bit easier than my last post, there are 8 x 28mm Cavalry at 10pts plus a single 28mm foot figure at 5 pts and a couple of flags for a total of 87 points for both the main total and the Renaissance Side Duel.


They are designed to go with the other six mounted Crossbow that I painted at the start of the Challenge in the above unit of 12.

There will be at least one more Italian Wars entry before Challenge End but as this is the last IW post for Team Tuesday I just want to say thanks for all your kind comments during the course of the last 3 months, they have really spurred me on to get stuck into this Project, Thank You 👍



More wonderful cavalry and I'm not ashamed to declare that I am a big fan of this project. And as a body of work its been a beauty to see it develop and grow (I'm getting all emotional!). 

Thankfully the points are easier this time around but I'm throwing in some extras because once again I just think the quality deserves it. 
Lee

26 comments:

  1. Italians at war in the Italian Wars - normal service is resumed! ;)

    Great work Ken :)

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    1. I do seem to have a bit of an Italian theme going 😂

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  2. Lovely cavalry unit and the papal command is ace!
    Best Iain

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  3. Your Italian Wars has been a triumph Ken!

    Christopher

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  4. A wonderful project allover Ken.

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  5. Some great figures for the last regular Tuesday post Ken, do you know whether these guys able to fire the crossbows while mounted? Re-loading I guess would be a big no-no but firing?

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    1. Thanks Sander, an age old debate, contemporary art clearly shows crossbows being fired from horse back, loading therefore is this the issue. Did they dismount to load, act as Mounted infantry or fire and load from the saddle. I fall into the latter camp, I think they used a latch type loader, less power less range than the Foot Crossbow but operated mounted.

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    2. I'm with you on this Ken, which leads to discussions with Curt. I also figure that shooting while on horseback might also in this case dismounting to shoot/load and then saddling up again. I'll also point out that no one question Scythians shooting bows at full gallop and that later in the 16th century Reiters were firing and reloading pistols from horseback.

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  6. Lovely work as always Ken. I have most of these figures, and know and love them, but yours are way nicer than mine.

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    1. Thanks Peter, no matter how they look they still roll the same dice 😁

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  7. This has been an amazing project...great work Ken.
    So...shooting a crossbow from a horse...that worked?

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    1. Cheers Greg, I think so, less power, less range than the Foot equivalent but mounted, there are many opinions out there though.

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  8. A really impressive project ken, and impressive you’ve kept at it right through the challenge!

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    1. Thanks very much, hope to get one more unit in at least before we finish

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  9. They‘re top notch again and fit perfectly with their comrades. The cardinal is the bees knees of course. The red came out wonderfully.

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    1. Cheers, I shall name him Cardinal Beesknees 😂

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  10. Fantastic...as usual. cheers

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