These will be proxy light cavalry jinetes for the Italian Wars project. They're painted in a red and yellow color combination to simplify the process. Used the usual block painting, followed by Minwax staining, and a final highlighting of the metal parts, face, and folds of cloth.
I used a spare body from the Heavy cavalry set for the leader. The Conquistador set has riders in quilted armor, but the same heads as the Heavy cav set. The horses are the same too, but don't come with the additional armor barding pieces in the Heavy cav set.
Here are some pictures of the Wargames Atlantic Conquistador/Renaissance sets - 3 boxes of infantry, and a box each of Conquistador and Heavy Cavalry. The flags are from the Warlord Games Landsknecht Starter Army set.
They're painted more uniformly in red and yellow than they likely were historically. They could also be used for a WHFB Estalian army as well.
The arquebusiers are in battleline, but can also be used as smaller sections for the Colunela formation rule.
Still need some artillery crewmen to get a playtest of the Death and The Landsknecht Pike & Shotte game, but as our bathroom in the process of "remodelling" I can't really host a game at my place yet. I use quotes for remodelling because it isn't by choice, but due to water damage from an improperly (or defective) shower pan. It had been leaking water onto the subfloor for the 6 years we've been living here. Thankfully it's finally getting fixed and covered by our insurance. Here's a quick picture of what it looked like when they first started demoing it. They'll started repairing the subfloor and drywall tomorrow - they demo'd the entire tiled floor and shower wall. Our bathtub, toilet, shower glass, and cabinets are on my back porch and in the garage. Thankfully we have two other bathrooms while awaiting this to be resolved.
Well, so much for now - thanks for visiting the blog and wishing you all the best!
