My Metal Meneken: Borgias

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Thursday, 20 July 2017

More Renaissance!!! Aut picturae, aut nihil!

Nothing much going on in the club as some crusaders and some WW2 so ... As promised, some of my latest Renaissance try at a somewhat Borgia body guard, which I envisaged as some sort of highly over fitted sword and buckler man with Borgia "heraldry" (oxymoron as they just invented themselves) much of a style mix between War of the Roses fashion and the new Landsknecht (Northern renaissance) influences. The miniatures are from the Perry Brothers, the flags and the shield design are by myself and the buildings are from the late but great Michael Scott available on the forthcoming CLAYMORE here in Edinburgh on the 5th of August ... see you there!

Monday, 29 August 2016

Borgia, Sforza and Medici!

I got my three Italian commands (from Perry Miniatures) finally finished!

The knightly more martial, I painted as Cesare Borgia. I will probably use him as a command for my upcoming papal units.

Then long ago I finished a Sforza command with a Swiss holding the reigns, this will be my Ludovico Maria Sforza, "Il Moro". I will use him maybe as commander for even Swiss or French.

And the last one of the stooges, Alessandro de Medici, also an "Il Moro" (means "The Black", which could rightly be an interpretation of his character more than anything). This will help out Jack's Florentines as he is notoriously low on command stands, (must be the Medici banker in him).

The Flags are self designed and printed on normal copy paper (80gsm).

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Aut pontifex maximus, Aut nihil!

Amen, my friends of the late night music, I decided to stock up my Renaissance army with some finer clerical units of the Romagna and the Pope in the future, I'll have to aim for nothing less than canonization!

So I will supply Jack's Florentines with two additional commands for the next Renaissance game, I decided to go for the Gonfalonieri Cesare Borgias himself - Agreed on very selfish rationale (the other I still have to decide ...)

I also decided to design some more shields for Angus' Venetian heavy infantry and some flags for Bart as he finally decided to join our renaissannce rattle and to go for the Sforzas, Hurrah!

I will further design some Swiss flags for Donald, if he is doin' the research ... we might find something other than the obvious...

That should be enough to become holy!

Ah, well and some unfinished 28mm Normans/Ottonians were accidentally present ... and some 6mm French, early WW1 ... Hach, too much to do ...