Empire of Sonnstahl

This is a command group from Warlord Games. I bought a load of flags from Battle Flag. They have a lot of flags for Landsknecht armies. Many of them are from the “Seventeen Provinces”. This is how the Netherlands were called at the time. This is one of those flags, staying with the theme of a Landsknecht army from the Netherlands.

I bought these second hand from a friend. I’ve got magic now! 🙂

Together with the pikemen I’ve painted earlier, I now have a unit of 40 pikemen. My second core unit is finished.

I’ve painted some more arquebusiers and added them to those I painted earlier. My first core unit is complete!

Painting with speedpaint really is much speedier.

UPDATE: I saw this painting in a museum in Vienna recently. It resprestens the Count of Bourgundy Philip the Fair, not emperor Maximilian as was assumed for a long time. Philip was the son of Maximilian.

This is another metal miniature from Warlord Games. The miniature is based on a painting from Rubens about a hundred years after his death. I’ve tried to paint the miniature to make him look like the painting.

These miniatures are from MOM Miniatures. They’re a bit larger then those from Warlord Games. They are fantasy miniatures, but their style fits in well among historical miniatures.

Warlord Games announced a price increase so I quickly bought all the metal miniatures I wanted for this project. I also bought the speedpaint megaset from The Army Painter and used them on all the miniatures bellow. For details I still use normal acrylic paint and for metal parts (armour, helmets, weapons) I use Vallejo’s Metal Color range.