Painted italians

I have been building and painting a few different groups of miniatures lately and finished the basing on all of them today.

 First out is a group of 8 archers for my red and yellow retinue, this gives me 24 archers with these colours.

 This is my first attempt at going for an italian feel. I have used a wonderful venetian  flag that i bought on ebay (look for Petes_flags)

 Some mounted men at arms seems to be mandatory. I am not sold on the way that the horse armour turned out.

 More horsemen, i am rather pleased with the horses.

I now have a few books to get me started.

Next on the painting table is a large group of crossbowmen, some light infantry and another 12 horses. I have also bought some priests and a few other miniatures to use in scenarios.

Italian retinue

 I have started to put together some italian infantry, they will be based individually so i can use them with different rules. After starting this project i realise that i need a lot more understanding about the  Italian condottiere and how they fought so more research is needed.

 A bunch of crossbowmen, i will make a few bases of pavisses too.

 Pikemen! I will need more of these.

 Light infantry

Handgunners

I think i will paint them in a black and white scheme with red and yellow as contrasting details.

Finished rebasing the last retinue

I have finished rebasing the last of batch of miniatures, the "blue retinue". I think that they would look better with some kind of badge or contrasting colour to break up all the blue.

I have also finished a few more forest bases and some buildings from 4ground.

After a few painting sessions I have managed to put all the base colours on them and they look terrible!They will look even worse soon. I have started to use the so called "magic wash", a mix of floor polish and ink. This wash will not only shade the miniatures but also protect them like a coat of varnish.


When all the 28 miniatures have been shaded the real work begins. This larger picture shows how well the details have been blacklined by the wash and also the glossy sheen.



Next up will be the highlighting of all the basecolours.

I will try to use this blogg to document the way I paint plastic 28mm napoleonic miniatures. I have recently started to mix Perry and Victrix with some succes.


This is a mixture of Perry french infantry, Victrix french infantry and Victrix Guard infantry.