Great Italian Wars, The Troops So Far

As promised, let me introduce you to my Great Italian Wars collection so far.

First of all the figures that I have painted.

Gendarmes from Wargames Foundry.  I actually bought these second-hand and cheap then painted them from scratch.

Guns and gunners from Wargames Foundry.

Warlord Games plastic Landsknechts.

More plastic Landsknecht.

All together

The flags are from Pete's Flags.

The following are figures that I've bought already painted and have had to touch up and/or do major additional painting.  Of course, all bought painted minis had to be rebased.

Swiss pike. I bought these from Colonel Bill's. They are Perry figures. Almost all needed fixing and a wash applied.

The first figures that I bought to start the project. Old GW figures. I repainted some hats, flesh and applied some wash where required.

More Perry minis acquired from Colonel Bill. I had to do quite a bit of work to tidy up tunics, crossbows and metal work.

Thank goodness for Colonel Bill. Same treatment applied as the previous figures. Perry minis again.

Perry plastic men at arms. I had to repaint the horses and all the armour and lances... actually I pretty much repainted the entire thing.

And now for the troops that I've bought and not done anything to them other than rebasing.

Not sure who made these arquebusiers... Atlantic perhaps?

Bought at last years Broadside Show. Again, not sure who made these sword and buckler men.

Bought from ebay. These are unmistakably Warlord Games plastic miniatures.

Also, from the same seller on ebay. Plastic Warlord Games arquebusiers.

Finally, the muster.  Nothing to compare to the parade of Dean's fabulous pike and arquebusiers.

And there you have it. 

I'm working on more gendarmes at the moment.  At some point I will start organising them into armies.

What I have found, is that painting the renaissance has brought the joy of figure painting back into my hobby life.  No more is it just a thing to do between games, but actually a thrill in itself.