Aut Cesar, Aut Nihil, Wargaming the Borgias.

Aut Cesar, Aut Nihil, Wargaming the Borgias.

Friday 20 December 2013

The First of my French.

I've found while wargaming this past so many decades that there are a lot of generous sorts who wargame. Whether its information or advice, but sometimes its a bit more. A very kind wargamer called Jason Williams sent me a pile of Corvus pikemen after I had been in contact in order to offer to buy them from him.
 Corvus were a small 28mm company from the 1980's that had some decent figures, perhaps a bit static, but still very nice. Anyway Jason very kindly refused payment and sent me a unit to paint.
 I salted a couple of Perry figures amongst the unit to give it a bit of interest, but I think they painted up really well. I have painted them as Gascon pikemen. Pete of Pete's flags fame, did me some extra large banners as I wanted to see how they would look. Again I think they worked out pretty well.
 I put the Corvus figures on one base, to save them routing in smaller groups, as pike I dont think the Gascons they were particularly good. Anyway thank you again Jason, I hope I can return the favour.
To complement the pike I painted up some crossbowmen as a sub unit. These are mainly Venexia figures.
The French always toted a lot of artillery about with them, so I have started with a couple of smaller pieces.

 I particularly liked the Grenadier model.
 And finally another sub commander, this time a couple of Redoubt figures, not my favourite range, but still not bad.I can only apologise about the quality of the photographs, I am not sure what has happened to my camera. Anyway, Happy Christmas.



8 comments:

  1. Splendid! I can hear people screaming here: "Pour la France"...a beautiful work!

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    1. Thanks Phil, I have been able to buy a copy of The Black Bande, and in that book the French were not the unbeatable force they originally appeared, so I hope to paint more Gascons and poor infantry types.

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  2. They look great Rob. Hope you get plenty of painting time in this Christmas amongst all the festivities! Have a good one!

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    1. Evening Colin,
      I was hoping to get a renaissance game arranged for the club in Durham, do you think it is achievable, anyway happy Christmas.

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  3. Looking good as always, I like the pose of the crossbow men reloading, have a good Christmas

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    1. You do know that you will want to fight the Italian Wars when you get to fight a battle.

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  4. Lovely unit of pike. I particularly like the loader peering out to see how well the shot fell!

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    1. Copplestone did a lovely range of figures. I know they are not cheap but you can sometimes pick some up chealy.
      Thanks Robbie.

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Honour Guard of Cesare Borgia.

Honour Guard of Cesare Borgia.