Yet more Swiss mercenaries join the ranks.....
Command stands
Halberds
Arquebus
Pike
Some grouped together
Still have a few more pike to paint.
For those puzzling the title, the German means !where has all the money gone?" The French is the motto of the Swiss - "No money, no Swiss!"
Beautifully rendered, Neil!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jonathan.
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The colours on them really seems to pop and gives them a wonderful look.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter, I deliberately kept to a limited palette of colours, red, yellow, black and white in order to tie them together. I suspect it is the white primer (for the Contrast base colours) that gives the vibrancy.
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Great job on the flats, the flags look especially good and not flat at all. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew. The flags are the hardest to paint as you have to think about any design and how it would react to the folds.
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Lovely work on your Swiss, really colourful looking and hard to believe it is done with a limited palette! The figures really "pop", superb additions to your collection.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie. As I've said before, the Contrast paints do a lot of the heavy lifting. I follow with Army Painter ink wash and then do touch ups and highlights with normal acrylics. Some of the remedial work is minimal, others take a bit longer.
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Superb painting and stunning colours Neil, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Willz. Not sure what's next in the painting queue....
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They look the business Neil…
ReplyDeleteThe colours work really well on the miniatures…
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly. Tried to stick to the Cantonal colours (apart from blue) and mixed up the combinations. There were a few duplicate figures, but I tried to pick those with lots of feathers. From what I've read, the later Swiss Reislaufer were almost identical to Landsknechts, just a bit more restrained with a taste for ostrich plumes - so much so the Germans called the Swiss "feather johnnies"!
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Flats are such a special and enjoyable type of figure. Yours look absolutely superb! I have enjoyed greatly scrolling through the pictures of your painted figures over you past few posts. I gather from your post that there are more to come? You beauty! I look forward to seeing them as you post the pics.
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
Thanks James. Yes, more to come. The idea was to produce DBA sized armies for France, Spain, the Empire, Venice and a generic Italian Condotta for a Machiavelli boardgame campaign. Pretty soon that expanded to include Turks (as per the game) then the various element choices for even just the French.
ReplyDeleteJonathan's Fornovo games then had me thinking about refighting battles.....
Then I started thinking about rules that I wanted to try, which includes DBA, DBA RRR, Maximilian and Basil Impetus. While the DBA pair use 12 elements, Maximilian uses 24-30 and Impetus uses double / quadruple bases (although this isn't essential).
The result has been to expand the planned French and make other armies larger.
The Swiss have expanded and the plan is for Landsknechts after them (Black Bands in French service).
I also originally got hold of some later Renaissance and SYW. The later Renaissance TYW have me thinking of Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. A "few" ancients may have joined the lead / pewter pile and this has me thinking of Hyborian HOTT armies using classical rather than medieval troops.
Neil