War carts for Ravenna Great Italian Wars 58

 At the battle of Ravenna Pedro Navarro a Spanish commander came up with the idea of war carts, multiple guns on wheels with shields and spears to defend them, to add a bit additional strength to the infantry. Ive always been interested in them and as there arent any historical images of them I've tried to invent something that would suffice, made out of bits and bods I had lying around. I had some duplicate pieces from a hinchcliffe organ gun, a number of mdf wheels that I picked up from warbases, some aluminium and plastic tube,mdf offcuts, balsa wood, Perry plastic pavisses and some polearms from the same source, some old glory polearms, a couple of 15mm chariot bodies and some GW muskets which together with some old glory Swiss artillery crew( together with a few Foundry Swiss) gave me these war carts.

I used the late medieval ribauldquin as some form of inspiration, wrought barrels would be relatively easy to fabricate I thought? Outside of Ravenna, I'll just use them as light artillery.

A fun bit of scratch building, I went for red and yellow as Spanish colours but I still think they're generic enough.

Next up,I've got an Italian pike block, some archer cavalry on the go, a Napoleonic unit and some dark age units unfortunately no terrain which I'd hoped to add to my pontoon bridges for the summer of scenery, maybe next year?

All the best

Iain

Austrian hussar regiment no 7 Liechtenstein Napoleonic 92

So finally a post! The first of two Austrian hussar regiments based on Perry plastic British early light dragoon riders, with Austrian hussar heads, mounted on home cast Prince August horses with added plastic Perry medieval or Warlord ECW horse necks and light cavalry bridle wearing heads, something of a Francenstein unit but I think with a bit of greenstuff they're good enough,  regiment no 7 Liechtenstein

The usual fast and dirty paint job, they look a little more workmanlike ,in their all blue uniform , than Hessen Homburg I think?

I like these at least in part because theyre made up of left over bits and bobs, apart from the horse mould which cost about £5 in a sale, they're all but the officer on French heavy cavalry horses, which aren't as small as some of their earlier horses, these ones are ,if skinny, taller than Foundry horses, so work better with 28mm figures

Next, who knows, probably Italian wars or terrain?

All the best 

Iain 

Ox cart, donkey cart and livestock

 Following on from the pillage game I've been knocking up some additional bases for livestock and assembled a warbases mdf cart, married to the donkey from the Perry Russian cart as I just want that as dressing. The ox cart was modelled on the warbase one and made from scrap mdf, resin wheels, balsa wood, ho/oo plastic wattle, wire, a leftover hinchcliffe bar and a minifigs ox Ive had for something like 47 years!

Ive put together a number of swine bases, for Plunder and also as dressing, some of the pigs are finished all in black as Iberian's to go with my Italian wars Spanish but who knows might feature in a peninsular game too?  The rest are in various versions of brown  as befits middle age swine, like the Tamworth breed. The vast majority of the pigs are toys that my sister picked up for me from French charity shops over the years, together with some of the                                   ( unfortunately no longer available) Pegasus pigs. The rest of the cattle,sheep and goats are from the Pegasus set, some donated by Des that hed already painted. Ive finished the goats so that they resemble dark age sheep, Soay sheep.

Pretty goat like Id say? 

That gives me enough cattle and livestock I think? Once Ive added them to my existing livestock?

Ive got some more Pegasus donleys, which could pull a cart or be used for Spanish artillery and a couple of oxen for some more carts.

 The carts will at least count towards Dave Stones summer of scenery.

Next up AARs or maybe some Napoleonics? Im getting a bit closer on my Ravenna war carts too!

All the best

Iain