28mm Renaissance Project 3

I manage to finish off the Old Glory 28's Landsknechts figures and it was a slog (slow heavy pace) to paint these guys. The problem I had was the color schemes on the figures some look great to me others look average some look "blah" awful

Painting Landsknechts was no easy task there were times the Landsknechts gave me the "sknechts" :o) during painting sessions. The good thing about painting up the Old Glory 28's I now know which colors to use and not to use for the 28mm Pro Gloria Landsknechts (48 figures) painting sessions, starting soon. 

This weekend I will start working on the Artillery crews, gun models and the 2 handed swordsmen and a few of the swordsmen figures converted to standard bearers.... which reminds me, does anybody know where to find online free download Banners/flags for my Landsknechts and Swiss Pikemen?

I appreciate any "the good, the bad and ugly" comments about painting these miniatures :o)

Blue Theme

Red Theme

Green/Brown Theme

Mix Color Themes

28mm Renaissance Project 2

A minor update....not much done today... I did some color "test" painting on some of the figures, a few pikemen and two artillery crew to give myself what to expect regarding to color decision making for the pikemen.

28mm Miniatures Primed Brown

Landsknechts Artillery Crew

Blue Theme

Green and Red/Orange Theme

My amateurish Landsknecht drawing.. hehehe

28mm Renaissance Project 1

Before I started working and drilling the figures, I wash, yeah I know washing lead!) :o) the minis with detergent to get rid of the factory and casting mold dust....

Drilling holes through the hands of the Pikemen was, well, a pain in the backside :oP

Yesterday I forgot to include the photos of the Landsknechts Artillery crews figures. you get 20 miniatures in a bag and most of them look great.

very interesting what you will find in this artillery pack. you get 4 pikemen (perhaps as Artillery Standard bearers?) standing, 1 Artillery commander and two guys have assorted weapon Hands to choose and insert from one of 8 weapons available within the pack.

Artillery Commander pointing

After the drilling and inserting the wire pikes

Off to the shed to prime the miniatures

28mm Renaissance Project

The Great Italian Wars 1494 AD - 1559 AD

Hi Guys, here are the miniatures for my next 28mm painting project.

2 packs of Old Glory Landsknechts (30 figures per bag) 

1 pack of Old Glory Doppelsoldner 2-Handed Swords (30 figures)

1 pack of Old Glory Landshnechts Artillery crews (20 figures)

1 pack of Old Glory Heavy Guns (2 models)

1 pack of Glory Light Guns (2 models)

2 packs of Pro Gloria Miniatures Landsknechts (24 figures per pack)

Total: 158 figures + 4 gun models

28mm Old Glory Landsknechts

I like the Old Glory Landsknechts figures they do have character, with lots of head variations on 5 different body poses and a lot of detail on the figures with minimum cleaning. I just hope I don't botch the painting on these figures.

The 2 figures below seems to be officers or standard bearers? 

which remind me I need to get flags/banners!

Doppelsoldner (2-Handed Swordsmen) German version of "Norse Warriors Berserkers" these guys were usually deployed up front, leading the advance of their pike bloc's,  and to my understanding, hack their way through enemy pike formations or even to break off the ends of enemy pikes.

Pro Gloria Miniatures

Purchased two Advancing Regimental packs. each pack contains 20 pikes 4 command (1 Officer, 1 Standard, 1 Drummer and 1 escort with pole axe?) The Pro Gloria miniatures look and feel great, nice clean and very detail sculpts. The facial expressions on these figures remind of the German Artist Albrecht Dürer paintings and other Renaissance artists.

I had bad luck on two counts, in one pack I got to many of the same pose figures, in the 2nd pack I had one figure missing, I emailed Pro Gloria miniatures about the missing figure and the reply was I need to make out another order and the missing figure will be added plus 2 or 3 extra figures for free to cover my pain and suffering..hehehe...couldn't stop giggle after reading the reply email from Pro Gloria... they do have great banners/flags and I'm considering getting a couple of sheets.

Comparing the two 28mm Landsknechts Manufactures - Old Glory on the left and Pro Gloria on the right. No doubt about it, the two figures/Manufacturers mix in well together, the old glory figure on the left of photo head size may be at least 1mm or 2mm :o) splitting hairs here, bigger than the Pro Gloria on the right, and should not be noticeable on the table top if the two figure types are mixed together.