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16th Century Gaelic Irish
Hobby wise this year has started the same as last, with more work on my Gaelic Irish army. I have completed some of the slighty later released Perry Irish from their Wars of the Roses range, we just...
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The Battle of Stoke Field - 1514?
This weekend I was visited by one of my fellow reenactors Jason Flint, who portrays a 15th Century Galloglass. His efforts can be seen on his instagram account which is well worth a look:...
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1540s Artillery Pieces
Following on from the 1540s Landsknechts I posted up at the start of the year work has continued on the Mid-16th Collection, the most recently completed figures for which are a couple of artillery...
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Piero the Unfortunate and the Garigliano
This weekend a friend of mine visited who is also a keen painter and collector. Tom specializes in the Hundred Years War and has recently started his own blog,...
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The Siege of Venlo, 1511
This weekend Stuart of https://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.com/  visited and we played a series of games that we have been planning for a while now, all based around the Siege of Venlo in 1511. This...
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Steel Fist Gendarmes
 It seems like an age ago that I backed the Kick Starter for these figures by Steel Fist Miniatures. My intention was to start work on them a while back but the Irish army project became a major...
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The Raid on Carrickfergus, 1513
Recenlty I have had the luxury of being able to leave my gaming table set up for a couple of months, hence the spate of battle reports on the blog. The final game, before putting it all away for a...
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Mid 16th Century Command Bases
Amidst the recent battle reports I have had time to finish two more bases for my Mid 16th Century Collection. In fact with the completion of these command bases, the guns, the Steel Fist Gendarmes and...
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Mid 16th Century Armies - Imperialists and 1540s English
With the completion of the Mid 16th Century Landsknecht block at the start of this year, followed by the Steel Fist Gendarmes and a couple of command bases the 1540s side project is finished. Well for...
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Command and Casualty Bases - Maximilian I and a flock of sheep
This blog has had some pretty awful post titles over the years, this could certainly be one of the top contenders! Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on a few bits and pieces that I have...
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Steel Fist Light Cavalry
Following on from the completed Steel Fist Gendarmes here are some photos of their recently released Italian Wars light cavalry,...
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Agnadello, 1509
A couple of weekends ago Stuart, https://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.com/, visited for another set of games in our series of clashes. Although we have played some fairly large scale scenarios for this...
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Repainted Fortifications - Part 1
Is anything ever finished in this hobby? I am always looking back at previous projects and changing bits and pieces either because I am not entirely happy with the result or because I think that...
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Repainted Fortifications - Part 2
So now we reach the second part of this project. I really struggled with how to repaint the Italian style fortifications, looking at lots of photos of surviving castles and at contemporary paintings....
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Seminara, 1495
Following the epic of Agnadello in July I thought it would be interesting to play out another pitched battle using the heavily modified "Renaissance Rampant" rules. I was joined by my friend and...
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Dürer's Irish
Earlier in the year Antediluvian Miniatures released a fantastic set of sculpts based on Albrecht Dürer's image of Irish soldiery in 1521,...
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Steel Fist Landsknecht
Ever since these Landsknecht were released I have been meaning to have a go at a unit of them. Initially the plan was to mix these figures with some of the Wargames Foundry marching Landsknecht but the...
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The Assault on Bray, 1523
Following on from our epic Agnadello clash in the summer Stuart visited this weekend for another set of wargames. This time we returned to our English and French forces, choosing an event during the...
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Ottoman Raiders - Akinji and Azabs
A new project for a new year. A state that had to feature on this blog eventually as so many of the European monarchs struggled against it during the 16th century, it is of course the Ottoman Empire....
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The Ottoman army continues...
The Ottoman army continues to grow. A large group of Azabs have been added to the collection armed with a wide varierty of swords, axes and other polearms. The unit is a mix of Old Glory and Assault...
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