Landsknechts

[Steeleye]

Could somebody point me in the direction of some photos of the Landsknecht range?

Many thanks in advance.

[fred.]

The guys with feathers on their hats in this pike block on LAN codes, there are two one in a mail shirt and a type of fez, the other in more typical slashed clothing



The left hand two guns are LAN codes


the gunner with his back to the camera is LAN, and the guy holding the rocket started out as LAN haldberdier (the organ gun might be a LAN one two too (nearly left that one to give FK a fit!)


I have the two handed swordsmen too - but can't find a photo it is a single pose, slightly crouched

[Leman]

Don't be afraid to try some of the other pike figures as well, especially those in the Flodden range. The gunners in the Flodden range also have very noticeable very early Tudor clothing so will also make great Italians, Spanish and French.

[fred.]

Are the Flodden figures the ER codes?

If so I think the front rank of my pikes are those figures, along with a sprinkling of EL pikes (in morions) - mine are meant to be fantasy figures, hence the mix of styles to match GW empire.

[Leman]

The Flodden figures are indeed the ER codes (Early Renaissance). I don't like the arquebusier figure though as he looks post 1530 to me.

[Bernie]

http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/media/For%20Lords%20Tomorrow%20is%20a%20Busy%20Day/04aLandsknechts.jpg.html

Couple of pike blocks for later Wars of the Roses

[Steeleye]

Thank-you. I'll consider buying some now that I see they don't appear to be too hard to paint. At my age and with deteriorating eyesight you have to think of this sort of thing! Thank the gods for khaki I say!

[Leman]

I have definitely got to do me a rocket battery. Just had a crack at converting a MM and a Pendraken Late Medieval Knight into a plumed and skirted gendarme. Will post a photo when painted up. Might encourage Nik to reconsider the Italian Wars.

[nikharwood]

Might encourage Nik to reconsider the Italian Wars.

It's possible..although I have got *serious* other distractions at the moment, including two lovely packages which landed safely from Pendraken HQ yesterday 

[Leman]

You're being very coy about your packages.

[nikharwood]

You're being very coy about your packages.

I'm good at playing hard-to-get

[MattW]

Is there any intention to expand the range? I wouldn't mind doing landsknechts one day, but single-pose packs are pretty offputting.

[Leon]

Is there any intention to expand the range? I wouldn't mind doing landsknechts one day, but single-pose packs are pretty offputting.

It's something we've chatted about in the past, but there's so much on the design schedule at the moment that it wouldn't be happening in the near future I'm afraid.

[fsn]

Ummm .. may I speak for the silent, or not so silent, majority ... or possibly a minority .. OK just for me?

I like single pose packs. Especially for anything from say mid 1600's to about 1900 (except the ACW where they were all a rabble anyway). Single poses make a unit look disciplined and efficient. Multiple poses packs may be more "realistic" but ... meh!

What used to irk me about Airfix was that you would buy a pack of 48 figures, and from it, once you'd weeded out all those extra Sten carriers, stretcher bearers, casualties and the incredible amount of support weapons, you'd barely enough for a proper half platoon.  Since everyone uses a different rule set the proportions of officers to rankers, of muskets to pike, of kneeling  to standing will vary.

Even you, great Dark Lord, will not be able to satisfy the undisciplined wishes of we (the dead flies on the Pendraken Bug Zapper 2000) unless ... you give up selling packs and just sell figures individually. <ducks to avoid incoming boot>

[FierceKitty]

I must say when I model regular troops, I like the look of a fairly uniform pose. Small variations in dress within a pose - feathered hats/helmets/bonnets, slashed hose/tights/cuisses etc. - are fun in relevant periods, however.
I still wake up screaming at the memory of those Airfix packs. Though they went quite well with the Grant/Featherstone rules of those days, mind you.