Milanese Civic Militia Under the Visconti's 1277 AD to 1447 AD

Milanese Civic Militia Spearmen 1277 AD to 1447 AD

As part of my ongoing project to clear out unpainted metal and replace items in my collection with more suitable figures I purchased a batch of QRF Italian Militia Spearmen back in April Code MIT03 Italian Pavisiers/Spearmen

https://quickreactionforce.co.uk/product/mit03-italian-pavisiersspearmen/ 

Some of them ended up at Catalan Company troops as per a previous blog entry and I had 24 left over castings in the same pose that were ideal for Spearmen or the front tank of Pavisier carriers.

Subsequent to this I purchased a huge batch of Blackhat Italian Spearmen at 50% off in the Vexillia Clearance Sale as they have discontinued selling these castings as he restructures his business into other options. This meant that the original plan to use them to create more Reg Bw X/O elements went out the window.

I recently used my Italian Condotta Army in a special game at the Club Open Day and fielded the Milan version against the Republic of Florence. The Civic Militia Spearmen I had were actually Roundway Hungarian Spearmen and totally unsuitable for the army but were the only figures I had when I created the army 20 years ago. I have now rebased the figures and repainted their shields into something more Eastern European looking and intend to sell them on [pictures at the end of this blog].

Since I wanted to field the Visconti Era army I looked at the heraldry for this time and realised that the Milan arms are the Flag of St Ambrose, which English people will notice is exactly the same as the Flag of St George. To be honest plain white shields with a red cross are really boring and uninspired so I took the liberty of creating my own shield transfers using the Family Arms of the Visconti's as the model. I often create my own flags and transfers and I am very pleased in how they turned out.

QRF MIT03 Italian Spearmen

These are the now surplus Naismith/Roundway Hungarian Spearmen

Roundway RKH08 Armati Heavy Infantry

Condotta Knights For A Club Demonstration Game

Essex Warriors 2019 Open Day DBM Demonstration Game

I have been asked to put on a DBM demonstration game at the club open day in September. I have plenty of army choices and managed to find a fellow club member to take part on the opposing side. He wanted to use his Florentine Army so naturally I will be fielding my Milanese Army against him. I tend to had a lot of generic figures that end up being used in lots of different armies. As part of my Project Lead Mountain I am painting up the unpainted metal I have had for far too long to get rid of it into my collection or to sell on. I had 30 knights from Naismith/Roundway which I had based up as Knight Wedges a couple of years ago. I have never used them and they sat in my storage box alongside other knight wedges. I tried to sell the wedges on Ebay for the last few weeks but there was no interest. I have put a picture of the wedges at the bottom.

I decided since I am putting on the demonstration game I would break up the wedges and turn them into conventional knight elements and at the same time flag them up to represent troops aligned to Milan.

The knights came in two poses, 15 on armoured horses and 15 on unarmoured horses so I made two groups of five elements of knights. I intend to sell them on after the demonstration game.

ADLG 15mm Commission - Part 2

Another Commission From Australia

After sending off my previous commission to the guy in Australia. He tells me hes really pleased with the order and wants something else. Its yet more troops for his Condotta Army plus some Scythian Horse Archers to go with a Classical Era army he is building.

Project Lead Mountain has been producing lots of spare bits and pieces since 2012 but it has reached the stage that I have started to run out of sufficient left over castings to make up similar looking elements for some troop types. He wanted a camp for his Condotta, another Pike Block, base of Halberdiers and three elements of Mounted Crossbowmen. I already had a camp that I was about to list on EBay so this was a quick sale. I managed to source the Halberdiers and Mounted Crossbowmen but didn't have any pikemen. A quick look on EBay saw a lot for sale from Minifigs Renaissance Range. I submitted a bid for these as well as for some Muslim type Civilians and waited for the clock to tick down. I was not at home when the auction ended but was lucky enough to have won both lots. It was a mixed bag of Condotta period troops and included 12 identical pikemen.

I also had six left over Scythian Horse Archers that were perfect for his needs.

So now it's all painted I am just waiting for the varnish to cure properly before packing them for their flight to Australia. 

ADLG Commanders on 40mm Circular Bases

Minifigs Mounted Crossbowmen

Mixed makes Halberdiers

Alternative Armies Code MR5

 

Baeuda Kings Tent on 120mm x 80mm base 

Minifigs Scythian Horse Archers

Generic Dismounted Men-At-Arms From Project Lead Mountain

When you find another bag of figures in the wrong place!

As part of Project Lead Mountain my aim is to clear out all of my unpainted 15mm Ancient castings either by painting and selling on EBay or adding to my own collection. Whilst looking through a draw of figures to see what I fancied painting next I found three bags of dismounted knights. After sorting them out I realised that with the addition of some metal spears to four of them and a quick look in my draw of yet to be painted Swiss infantry for some spare Hornists I had the making of 15 new elements of Blade [Superior] using DBx terminology. The figures are of mixed makes and apart from the Hornished which are either Naismith or Roundway I do not have a clue what make they are or where they come from. Such is the long time I have had them. I had originally decided that I would sell them on EBay but after I have completed them decided that they will be going into my own collection. Which means I will be cascading twelve elements out of my collection in their place to go on EBay. 

I realised that if I wanted to use them for a few armies I would need to use fairly nondescript flags for the command groups. I settled on fairly generic Guelph Faction Italian Condotta flags which will be suitable to use with lots of armies.

I ended up creating five groups of three elements making 60 castings in all and it took me 48 hours to complete them from scratch.

The first batch of pictures are the figures going into my own collection.

Apparently Corvus Belli castings I am told.

There are supposed to be Lancashire Games castings I am told

The following groups are carrying flags for Cremona, mainly because I liked the look of them.

These next two groups of elements are going on EBay.
The first group are Naismith/Roundway castings.

The second group are a mix of makes some of which look like Mikes Models, at least one Minifigs, an Essex and anyones guess what else!