For today's post fresh off the painting desk we have yet another unit of landsknecht. When Steel Fist Miniatures released these two packs sculpted by Paul Hicks, https://steelfistminiatures.com/products/lan-16-landsknechts-standing-unarmoured and https://steelfistminiatures.com/products/lan-17-landsknechts-standing-armoured, I couldn't resist adding them to my German mercenary forces. I picked up three packs of each set which I have mixed with some old Wargames Foundry landsknecht and a command group from The Assault Group to create the unit shown below.
I really enjoyed painting these new landsknecht and as you can see they fit in really well with the old Wargames Foundry range and the TAG figures. They will also fit perfectly with the former Pro Gloria Miniatures metal landsknecht, now sold by Warlord Games, which I think were also sculpted by Paul.
For the paint schemes I copied some of those shown in this book, https://www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Lehnart-Ulrich/Clothing--Weapons-of-the-Durer-Period-1480-1530/9783963600708, which I cannot recommend enough if you are interested in collecting armies of this era. It has loads of great detail on how landsknecht fashion evolved as well as how the armour changed. The book also goes into a lot of detail of the weapons used by the landsknecht and the accompanying men at arms. At present it does not look like Volume 2 is available in English.
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| A unit of 28mm landsknecht. |
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| A view of the unit from behind. |
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| 28mm landsknecht by Steel Fist Miniatures, Wargames Foundry and The Assault Group. |
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| All of the landsknecht have a different colour scheme. |
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| 28mm late 15th century camp followers from Steel Fist Miniatures. |
Simon from Steel Fist also very kindly sent me a pack of these excellent late 15th century camp followers,
https://steelfistminiatures.com/products/lm-18-women-camp-followers, as shown in the photo above. These will be very useful for loads of games and scenarios. You may have noticed my wagons and civilians feature in more games than any of the military units I have painted up.
Whilst on the subject of the late 15th century the re-enactment season has come to an end and this year I was lucky enough to take part in re-enactments of Barnet, Tewkesbury and Bosworth as well as a couple of other events. Wearing armour in the successive heat waves has been quite a challenge and I thought you might enjoy the below photo of me suffering as I hid in the shade, before retrieving my glaive from where I had dropped it and marching on to the field at Tewkesbury to fight for the Yorkists!
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| A very warm Yorkist re-enactor! |
