Reinforcements for the Venetians
/Friend Nigel often fields some kind of Condotta army at the tournaments we both attend, and one troop type that usually causes his opponents all sorts of annoyance are the Rotularii or “sword & buckler men”.
I’ve faced these a couple of times, and can attest to their effectiveness, so I thought it was about time I reinforced my 28mm Venetians with some Rotularii of my own.
Now I finished the Venetians as a project some time ago so, aside from wanting to make a couple of coolio camps (canals, piazzas, gondoliers or something like that!), up to now I’ve had no intention of adding more units…which meant that if I wanted to field some more infantry, they were going to have to come from the bits box as I wasn’t going to buy any new figures just to get four light infantry types onto the table.
Not sure how historically accurate they are, and they are a real Frankinstein collection of odd bits and pieces (knights, foot soldiers, even light cavalry) but they look suitably ferocious to me!
And talking of finishing projects, here’s the last of the Arabs that I’m planning to add to the collection: a couple of units of Javelinmen just in case the ground is very rough!
These are 3D Breed sculpts of 15mm Moorish Warriors printed by Geek Villain. They are very nicely detailed figures that take the paint very well.
Again, however, there were some problems in getting the models to stand up without support: not as bad as the Moorish cavalry from the same source, but not as good as the Red Copper prints I’ve been using previously.
I particularly like the way the shields have turned out.
So that’s hopefully the last of the Arabs I’ll need to paint: a quick look at the my Painting Challenge gallery for 2025 shows that Arabs are almost all that I’ve painted this year. Not sure what’s next, but they won’t be wearing mostly white!
