Friday, 30 December 2022

15mm Medieval German Knights and Spearmen

After having completed the Teutonic army, the next project in line is a 15mm German army. There is some crossover here in that the German knights can act as allies for Teutonic forces and vice versa, so it made sense to me to complete these next. First up, 20 elements of German knights:


















The figures are again from Khurasan, with some shield designs, lance pennons and barding transfers from Little Big Men studios:






















































I find it difficult to come up with fresh livery ideas especially where sixty figures are involved, but the LBMS decals certainly helped and thankfully I have managed to make each figure look somewhat individual. I much prefer painting unformed troops however:






















































I also managed to compete sixteen elements of German spearmen. Given that these were raised as militia and fielded as a single force by particular cities I allowed myself the luxury of giving them all the same simple shield design:






















































These two completed units should now go a long way toward the completion of the German army:



















I am still quite annoyed that I lost four what would have been completely uninterrupted days, which I had carefully engineered and which would have allowed me to make even more progress than this. It is nice however to return to the brushes and actually want to paint again, as I now hopefully overcome the last of COVID.

The final figure count for 2022 is 1099 foot and mounted figures with 243 horses, to give a total of 1342 figures in all. Probably not a bad result particularly as the year started with the completion of  a hundred and fifty or so 28mm French Napoleonic cavalry which were quite fiddly. I have still got just over a week of holidays left as well, in which I am hoping I'll be able to make up more ground.

All the best to everyone for a happy, safe and productive 2023.
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  1. Phil30 December 2022 at 23:42

    Wonderful work on your knights and spearmen, and most impressive mass effect!

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    1. Lawrence H31 December 2022 at 00:42

      Cheers Phil. Quite a few figures completed toward this project I'm glad to say.

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  2. Jonathan Freitag31 December 2022 at 00:40

    Lawrence, good to see that you are recovering from your bout with COVID and that you are well enough to return to the painting table. The splashes of color on your troops when arrayed en masse is really impressive. Great job!

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    1. Lawrence H31 December 2022 at 00:45

      Thanks Jonathan. I tried to keep the colours mainly neutral for the spearmen at least with just the few splashes as you say, so I'm glad it looks OK. I'm also happy that at least some level of motivation has returned, which must mean I'm on the mend.

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  3. rross31 December 2022 at 01:28

    Glad you are feeling up to hitting the brushes again, Lawrence. Hope you have a good new year and you get a decent amount of painting time in over the next week!

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    1. Lawrence H31 December 2022 at 12:16

      Thanks Keith. I'm finding I'm able to stretch things by an hour or so each day, so am hopeful I'l be back up to full speed by next week.

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  4. Codsticker31 December 2022 at 09:48

    That is great painting. I find painting 15mm a bit of a challenge but you have really nailed it.

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    1. Lawrence H31 December 2022 at 12:17

      Thanks Codsticker. There's quite a bit you can skirt around on 15mm figures.

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  5. Matt Crump1 January 2023 at 01:47

    Impressive looking collection 👍 nicely turned out

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    1. Lawrence H1 January 2023 at 12:04

      Thanks Matt, they do look like quite a dense force and I'm keen to get them on the table for their first game.

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  6. Richard1 January 2023 at 02:18

    These look amazing Lawrence.

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    1. Lawrence H1 January 2023 at 12:04

      Thanks Richard, and large chunk of this army done now.

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  7. Stew5 January 2023 at 23:12

    Glad you got over the plague: happy new year.
    That’s an impressive painting output. Here I was feeling very fulfilled painting just over 150 ish figs for the year…but mine were 28mm so that counts as 3 15mm. 😀

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    1. Lawrence H7 January 2023 at 11:59

      Thanks Stew. Yes, at least three times the coverage in a 28mm figure, if not more. I find there is a slightly heightened sense of achievement with 28mm.

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  8. caveadsum14716 January 2023 at 06:19

    Great looking knights and good looking spearmen! Glad the motivation is back, I was a good 10 days of not really knowing what was going on and trying to work from home, it sounds like you're better than that at least!
    Best Iain

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    1. Lawrence H7 January 2023 at 12:02

      Cheers Iain. I have to be at least 90% to want to paint. When I am I can't wait to get stuck into it, but any less than that and I keep giving myself excuses not to. Two weeks on and I still have a slight cough, but it appears to be all but gone now.

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  9. Amtmann B.17 January 2023 at 04:49

    An impressive numbers of knights on horses! I love the colours.

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    1. Lawrence H17 January 2023 at 11:36

      Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.

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  10. Gonsalvo29 January 2023 at 19:06

    I missed this post at the end of the year - what a superb job on the Knights in particular, Lawrence!

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    1. Lawrence H31 January 2023 at 11:52

      Thanks Peter, it was good to get the knights done before the end of the year as they represented the bulk of this project completed.

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