Landsknecht Dwarf army (Part two) : Pikemen and arquebusiers

After working a few weeks, I present you three units which compose the heart of my Dwarf army. Other Landsknecht units will arrive in the next few weeks (halberdier, crossbowmen, artillery…).

 

 

 

For this project, I chose to make no blending of colors and work in groups of 10 dwarfs  to accelerate the process of paintings. I hope to realize this army of 170 miniatures in approximately 7 months.

Another good way to go fast is to apply the famous Foundry Miniatures method of painting based on the work with 3 colors. I discovered this method by buying the book Painting and Modelling guide Master Class in 2013 at the Foundry stand at CRISIS Antwerp ( at a very moderate price, thank you Marcus!).

I adapted this method with 4 colors and with the Citadel paints by economic choice. I planned to make a tutorial to show you this very simple but very effective method.

To obtain a coherent result, I limited myself to only 3 main colors (yellow, red, blue) besides the white and the black. For an army of Landsknecht, it is important to paint clothes by juxtaposing strips of different colors. In my case, I found that the final result was not sufficient, I decided to paint also certain poles of pikes in this way, it’s not very historic but very effective.

These strips on poles inspided me !

Concerning banners, no creation is necessary for this time because this period of History abounds in magnificent banners, just print and paint. To solidify them and to give them a flying shape, I positioned a fine metal leaf under the paper (the metal leaf comes from a wine bottle).

Another part of this project concerns the conversions. The Marauders Miniatures range proposes a good base of Landsknecht but not enough to obtain a varied army. The main characteristics of Landsknechts are their hats, their feathers and their strips of colors. It’s exactly these elements that I added on certain figurines to give them the good style. Conversions are relatively easy to realize and very effective visually.

 

 

 

No conversion but awesome minis