Another 4 artillery units completed, all ready for the Battle of Northampton at Historicon next month.
Once again depicted with some of my already painted surplus Late Medieval/Renaissance ordonnance.
There are quite a variety of figures in the Old Glory Artillery crew pack, and I've added few leaders from the Command pack as well.
Each battery's crew has a different livery pattern, generally corresponding to a Lord I've already done units for.
A pair of very medieval looking Bombards.
Oops, need to paint the mouth of that one black - already remedied!
They are well prepared to adi the defense of the field works at Northampton!
In other news, a fresh shipment of banners from Pete's Flags just arrived, so expect to see some in the not too distant future!
More great looking artillery added to the WotR collection, Peter! Is the left hand medieval bombard supposed to be wheeless or did you just not have all the parts? I am wondering how they moved it around from one battle/ siege to another, if it did not have any wheels?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Keith! Late Medieval artillery was chiefly used in sieges or the attack or defense of prepared positions, and early bombartds were thus assembled and disassembled for same. Along with handguns, Artillery starts to make an appearance on battlefields in the 1400's (The Hussites used quite a bit of Artillery in the context of their Wagenburgs (circa 1420's)), and the Swiss captured a lot of artillery form the Burgundians (1474 -1477), so roughly contemporaneous with the WotR. It would take the Great Italian Wars (1490 - 1530) for Artillery to become indispensable on the battlefield.
DeleteGreat variety of tubes and crew members. Does this make you H-con ready?
ReplyDeleteCertainly made a bigger 'trayne of artillerie' for the period.
Thanks, Joe! Pretty much, although I discovered that I need to paint up my unit of Duchy of Warsaw Horse Artillery for the last game!
DeleteArtillery was usually moved on wagons or its own transport carriages and set up in situ. Proper wheeled artillery like the top ones would be quite novel in the early WotR and had a simple towing limber, with all the equipment, ammunition, powder etc in wagons.
ReplyDeleteNice models and a great job on them Peter. You really are pulling out all the stops for Historicon, as you seem to do every year.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lawrence! These figures will be used for Tim and David's 3 Northampton games.
DeleteBashing artillery with hammer does not look like Health and Safety approved to me ! great looking guns and gunners
ReplyDeleteEarly gunpowder artillery was indeed somewhat dangerous to be around! I think the hammers are for opening powder kegs (!),
DeleteGreat looking guns and gunners, I'm painting a pack of old glory gunners myself at the moment, the occasional odd figure but overall very good and I'm sure I will find a use for them all!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Yes, there are a few somewhat odd ones, but they work, and more variety than many crew sets!
DeleteThey look great - looking forward to seeing them on the table
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteSoon enough, David!