Saturday 3 April 2021

Even more pike!.

 Hi all, work continues on my 15th century Swiss, I have managed to get two more units of pikemen painted.


Two more done.



  As ever all the miniatures are 10mm Pendraken. In the rules they are based for (Ancient and medieval wargaming by Neil Thomas) all units are made up of four bases, however the Swiss are allowed to combine two units into one big eight base steamroller. I have deliberately based the pike units with this in mind to hopefully give the impression of a large mass of troops rather than two units bunged together.



 I have also bunged some extra banners on my completed units to make them look spiffy.

Just one more unit of pike to finish then a unit of hand gunners and the Swiss will be done...


...'till next time...

6 comments:

  1. It's hard to argue with plate'n'pike. These look great - and the scale 'en masse' effect really captures the period.

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    1. Ta, they are lots of fun to put together, mainly because they require very little effort!. I'm becoming a big fan of multibasing.

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  2. The sight of such Big pike blocks id really impressive, Sprinks, great job... where are the old Times of small skirmish unpainted warbands gone?

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    1. Thanks Sceavus, the unprinted minis may still make it to the table but I'm actually really enjoying tackling projects like these.

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  3. Looking very pikey... 10mm really comes to the fore when you need realistic looking pike blocks.

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    1. Thanks, I was going for pikey. I'm becoming a big fan of 10mm, quick and easy to paint.

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