As promised after my second post, earlier this challenge, here is the follow-up Covenantor unit plus the Command stand for the first one that did not arrive in time for the previous post!
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| The New Unit, with second command stand at it's side |
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| And as it was a few short days ago! If anyone is wondering about the art work they are resting on - its my grand-daughters doodling of a Dinosaur! |
I have used the same paint palette for this unit, as I used for the first one - allowing me to swap and change the figures about to get the second rank of each unit aligned to meet my OCD tendencies - to me either a unit has to be made of all different figures or those in a similar pose!
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| The Command Stands |
I used the same techniques to paint these figures as the last unit - so will not duplicate this here.
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| The sharp end of the unit - Pike & Pole-Arm Block |
One command group has a blue drum and a black flag, (taken from the wonderful Project Auldearn 1645 Blog and actually the Colonel's flag of Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Regiment), whilst the other command stand has the red drum and blue flag, just to make them different. Rather annoyingly I made up both unit's officers with dual pistols - I had thought that I'd prepared one with a sword and pistol - oh well - the downside of rushing through these builds late at night and early in the morning!
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| The Left Musketeer Block |
Flags are taken from the internet and fancied-up using Microsoft Paint before printing on my home printer, cut to size and then glued on their poles using wood glue to moisten the paper and allow the flags to be moulded into a more realistic position.
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| The Right Musketeer Block |
In this second set of figures, I have modelled four of the pikemen to be holding halberds / ancient polearms to represent the liberation of such weapons from the houses of local noblemen.
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| The new unit by its-self |
The final picture is that of the two new units side by side...
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| Both Units - Side by Side - OCD fears resolved! |
