Big Game This Weekend.

Its been awhile posting anything. Here we are in February and not a pot washed.
 Anyway, I have arranged [hopefully ] a large renaissance game this Sunday at the Durham club.
 I just hope there are enough troops to go around. If not then I will probably just watch and offer up poor advice.
 I havent been sitting on my backside since the turn of the new year, and I have added some pieces to my renaissance armies. But firstly I have to show everyone! the flags that Pete has created for my Black Bande;

 I know Pete is a bit concerned that they are conjectural, but thats because he is such a perfectionist, but these are his best work for me. They certainly match the descriptions of the company standards of the Bande Nere as they marched towards their doom in Naples.
 I have been working on a few odds and sods for my armies, as I do like a wagon train;

 The pieces are Hinchliffe, and are my take on that wonderful photograph that appeared many years ago in Miniature Wargames.

 The shoemaker in green was painted by my opponent John, who always painted a mean Hinchliffe figure.

The organ gun, is a hodge podge of figures.

 This heavy gun is obviously Foundry figures.

                           
                                       I had to paint this chap, he is a Games Workshop plastic Empire figure.

  This range of Foundry figures I believe has been discontinued, but I actually like them, although they
   lack the detail of the Perry castings.

                                         

  

Finally, John was selling off his small contingent of 28mm renaissance figures at York last weekend. I couldnt let these Old Glory gendarmes go. I struggled when I attempted to paint these figures, I knew John would make a great job of them. I am probably going to have more gendarmes than existed in the Italian Wars, but they are very colourful chaps.