David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Friday 6 September 2019

Italian Wars Light Cavalry

I picked up these Casting Room Miniatures from the Foundry stand at this year's Partizan for £5 a pack. I think they must have been clearing out stock. I wanted a couple of bases of Light Cavalry to supplement the Gendarmes and Elmetti in my Papal army of Alexander VI which you may have seen featured, along with Phil's Florentines, in an issue of Wargames Illustrated earlier in the summer. While the figures may not be to  everyone's taste they do paint up nicely I've found so they will do for me at any rate.
I had to fit in painting them around major redecoration of the room I've been using as a painting base since GHQ relocated a couple of years ago or so. This meant that it took me longer than I'd hoped to complete them. Real life, gets in the way sometimes! Now they are finished you can see what you think of them. As usual bases by Warbases and flags by Pete's Flags ~


I’ve also started on six Eureka Miniatures Renaissance civilian figures to populate my tabletop setting in future games. If it wasn’t for the disruption of decorating, allied to a trip with Phil to Colours on Saturday, I’d have hoped to have completed them over the weekend. As it is, it will take a while longer...

22 comments:

  1. Nice bunch of light cavalry! They've painted up well and the flags complement them really well!
    Best Iain

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  2. I like these figures. Have some to do myself one day soon.....

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    1. I expect they are finished now then...😉

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    1. Thanks Phil, I think yellow and red worked well for these

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  4. Great looking Italian Wars cavalry!

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  5. Can't beat colourful flags, nice figures.

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  6. Nicely done David...
    A nice choice of colours and pretty flags... they will stand out well on the table...
    But will they fight...? ;-)

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thanks Aly, all encouragement welcome! As to fighting, well, probably not.

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