Not Swiss pikemen for BOYL

I managed to finish these guys off earlier today. That’s a unit of 16 arquebusiers/handgunners, replete with a health coat of gloss varnish.

I’m sure I’ve said numerous times before, but much of he army is from Wargames Foundry and are their Swiss Medieval range, though the army does have models from a few other ranges here and there.

I really am going to enjoy playing at Not-BOYL this year. And I’ll take them to BOYL next year as well.

Though I do hope I’ll finish the other units and the movement trays in time – I certianly will have to make my own for the 100 pikemen.

Here we go. I’m a few days behind with posting these. I’ve now a paor of artillery pieces for my Oldhammer army, ready for Not-BOYL. Though I fully intend to take them all down next year for Full-BOYL as well.

These guys are Wargames Foundry as well. The cannons are Medieval Bombards and the crew are from Foundry’s War of the Roses range.

Of course, I did 3 coats of gloss varnish, because I sort of got attached to the Stillmanis thing.

So, it’s been a bit of a busy fortnight. I recently got back from this year’s TWITWU and managed to get to taking some photos of these.

These guys are some of the heroes for my Boyl army, and yes, I’ve been doing a full Stillania thing with them with a lot of gloss varnish.

The Giant is called Barry and is the Cloud Giant from Ral Partha. There is my gerneral, Roderick Von Bek with his swan-wyvern, Trixxy. His brother is the Warhammer Quest noble, Ferdinando Von Bek. The army standard bearer is another Von Bek – Alaric.

With the wizards, the dwarf wizard in purple is Harry Palmz-Unie. Then you have Bek the Questionable and his apprentice, Bruno the Questioning.

A couple of these models will go into the pikeblock that I shared a couple of weeks ago.

So, it’s taken longer than I thought it would, but I’ve finished my first unit for my BOYL army. 99 Pikemen. I decided to go full Stillmania and do 3 coats of gloss varnish as well.

They’re all Wargames Foundry minis – the Swiss pikemen.

Hopefully these will come with me to the Boyl replacement events this year. But, they certainly will next year.

The unit is based on Michael Moorcock’s Von Bek stories, but this unit is led by Hauptkrieg, Wilsohn and Hecht and the block is nickneamed the Don’t Tell ‘Ems. Might you be able to guess what the names translate as?

There we go. I’ve finished painting up the pikemen themselves.

I’ve going to work on varnishing them, then turn to doing the pikes separately. It was the plan to do that all along, so I had something to hold.

I have more tufts on order, but they should come by the time I’ve done the pikes – they’ll need varnishing as well.

Hum, I think I’ll go full Stillmania and use gloss varnish. They’re the old sculpts that Dave Andrews did for GW in the ’80s or early ’90s, so it feels right to lead into the theme. After all, this is my BOYL army. Seems fitting.

There we go, it’s taken a while. I’ve managed to get the first coat of paint put on the bodies of my pikemen. I’ll start on the second coat tomorrow.

I thought it wise to paint the pikes themselves separately for the sake of manageability, being able to manhandle them about the table better while I paint them.

I thought I’d try uploading a vlog I did on Youtube. It shows the project off a bi  better, though I’ve not managed to get much progress done from last post.