Blood and Plunder - Dugthefug1644
Starting towards the end...
The latest Blood and Plunder week gave me the nudge I needed to restart my project. Sadly the pages of forum posts from the old Beasts of War site were lost, but I will piece together my starting point and flesh out the first steps of the journey soon.
For now I wanted to share my latest pieces.
These minis charging the gun platform I made are Lanceros. Hard nuts from the islands who were told to use ambush tactics by their Spanish masters and expected to do so with nothing but spears and cut down pikes and pole arms. These units were made up of conscripted men and slaves for the most part.
I made the latest mini from an English Civil war Warlord Games plastic command sprue mini and a Warlord Zulu head.
The short pike he is wielding previously had an axe / halberd head. The ruff color is made of greenstuff. He is very old fashioned looking compared to his fellow Lanceros, but I still think he fits in OK with the group. The ‘make the best of what you have’ attitude to equipping these units and the diverse pasts that these men must have had made for a fun bit of artistic licence and narrative.
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