Landsknects

There were a small number of Landsknecht figures in the Renaissance Range:

R1s Landsknecht Pikeman Advancing
R2s Landsknecht Halberdier Advancing
R3s Landsknecht Musketeer Firing
R4s Landsknecht Two Handed Swordsman
R5s Armoured Landsknecht Pikeman Advancing
R12s Armoured Landsknecht Officer

which gave you all the infantry types you needed.

I'd had odds and ends for a while then I acquired a larger batch at the beginning of this year so I spent a month or so getting them painted up to a similar standard. There were no artillery so rather than trying to convert some of the figures I had to gunners I took advantage of the rather nice Imperial-Modellbau figures available from the Hagen Miniatures on line shop to provide artillery and a command group.

Landsknechts qualify as "complicated" for painting as far as I am concerned, along with tratan, hussars etc so I go for an impressionistic approach to provide a just about acceptable result from a distance.

I have accidentally ended up then with a useful sized and very flexible force which can serve as part of any number of armies of the period. And then there is that very staisfying feeling of having "finished" a project.

There is an officer figure in the front rank of the second unit of pikemen (four pictures above) which I haven't been able to track down on a list: I do have this old catalogue photo of R12s (armoured officer) but I haven't got or seen this figure in the metal.

Range - XVI Century Renaissance

A mid size range with 9 mounted and 12 foot figures. They were often featured in George Gush's long running Renaissance Armies series in Airfix Magazine 1972-4 (although figures from Warrior were at least equally prominent).

I have only sketchy coverage of this range and some pictures have been taken from the Airfix magazine series or from the S Range catalogue. If anyone is able to provide pictures of any of the remaining figures I would be glad to hear from you.

There are also two figures mounted figures I have which may have come from this range. if anyone could identify them I would be grateful.

The first figure is identified in Airfix Magazine as a Border Horseman but I have not been able to identify this against any figure in this or other S Range series (medieval or Thirty Years War).





The second figure is an armoured knight or lancer.

R 1s Lansknecht pikeman advancing

R 2s Lansknecht halberdier advancing

RS 3s Lansknecht musketeer firing

R 4s Lansknecht two handed swordsman

R 5s Armoured Lansknecht pikeman advancing

R 6s German crossbowman firing

R 7s French unarmoured arqubusier firing

R 8s Swiss pikeman advancing

These figures have replacement wire pikes and are accompanied by a Thirty Years War infantry officer (TYW 3s)

R 9s Janissary musketeer advancing

R 10s Janissary archer firing

R 11s Janissary Officer

R 12s Armoured Lansknecht officer

This picture is taken from a S Range catalogue

RC 1s Mounted Arquebusier

RC 2s French Mounted Arquebusier

RC 3s Hungarian Hussar with wolf skin pelisse

RC 4s Burgundian Mounted Arquebusier

RC 5s Stradiot

RC 6s Genitor