Never Mind The Condottiere

Having been aware of the rules for quite some time, at the turn of the year, I decided I wanted a quick burst of painting to result in an army for 'Never Mind The Billhooks'.

About 20 years ago, I "did" the Italian Wars proper, with Landsknechts and Gendarmes and the like, but this time I wanted to go earlier to the 1480-ish period and create Italian Condottiere armies (I quickly decided I would need to paint both sides). Somehow, it feels more in keeping with the core set of rules, rather than heading for the Italia section of the new shiny Deluxe rules edition and focusing on The Great Italian Wars post 1494.

This is an army based on a Milanese force circa 1480ish. There will be no surprise to you, dear reader, to learn that, of course, the City States involved will be imaginary! More details of this in an upcoming post. 

So, here we are 2 months later and most of the first army is finished. 

The blue theme is deliberate.

Flags were downloaded from the excellent Outpost GY Facebook group, and overpainted/repainted in places (some field colours were altered to fit the theme).

Many of the figures are plastic (some are metal on plastic horses). I found it all a bit unusual as I don't paint many plastics and the construction of the figures seemed to take a frustratingly long time before I got to the actual painting, but that's probably more due to my unfamiliarity than anything else. More skilled modelers would have done it in quick time, I'm sure, and would have made a better fist of it!

I will be posting details of the individual units over the coming weeks, rather than making this an overly long post.

I have a 24 figure veteran pike block currently being worked on as the final unit. Then it will be onto the enemy force.

So, despite my silence on the blog, I have managed to do a fair bit of painting over the past few weeks.

Hope you are having a great start to the year too!!