Half a Pike Block and life stuff

 So no updates for well over a month now. This is becasue I got hit with the flu that knocked me out for 2 weeks and it ended up as bronchitis so I'm on some nice antibiotics!

It was quite inconvient with wedding coming up. I finnaly managed to drag my self to the mall to get my, shirt, tie, socks and belt to finish the new fancy suit I bought!

So in 5 days the wedding is on, I'm still on antibiotics and coughing like a MoFo. But it does look like we will get nice weather which is nice as it's a outdoor wedding.

I did paint some artizan landsknecht a few years back. And they where a tiny 18 figure. Now with the help of 18 pro gloria it's no a sligtly less tiny 36 figure pike block. I now do have enough pro gloria to finish the 72 figure pike block!

 With 36 figure it does look somewhat blocky!

It's not often I get to use purple and especaly tourqoise

No two is exacly the same!

Landsknecht part 2.

 So I basicly finshed my landsknecht, I got 2 more from the order, might paint them up tomorrow or something. But I kinda hate having a half finished base, so might wait untill I order more.

So this is 18 landsknecht from artizan. When I get the money(not untill well after new year)  I'll order 6 packs of these and 1 of halbraders, For a total of 72 figures. I'll also order 2 units from TAG, one foot and one mounted arqebusers. And one unit of gendarmes.






So this is it so far. Hand painted(traced)  flag.
A 72 strong unit will be 4 bases wide and 3 deep.

I like them so far, But I think my next unit(that will be made with foundry) with be advancing.
I get marching instead of advancing, but just standing like this, From all the pictures of pike blocks they are always moving or advancing over the battlefield. By just standing there they loose that old feel.

First Landsknecht

 So Waited for theise for a very long time(well 22 days) This happend after I watched olicana's blog about the italian wars, the pure wargame porn. I needed to do that!

I orderd 20 landsknecht from artizan, And I'll order a big order from foundry that will give me some 120 landsknecht and 18 gendarmes.

I'll also add arebusers, mounted and foot, mounted and foot crossbowmen ect. Probebly from TAG.


I've tried a totaly new style of painting theise figurers, I could say a bleak  imitation of olicanas style. I only use 2 layers, with big contrasts, This is not a style I will use on any other project, this is italian war only style. They don't look half as good as olicanas but they look good.

 They are fun to paint, but takes a long time, even with just 2 layers vs 3-5. the complex "uniforms" means it takes a while.

 Besides imitating a italian war god, I like this style for 2 other reasons. 1 in a pike block of 60-120 figures, you need bright colors with big contrasts to be seen. 1 saves time, again a unit of 60 pluss figures.


My units are mostly brightly colord, greens, reds, blues, yellows.