Forty mil moving forward...

Landsknechts and dismounted cavalrymen moving forward, based and almost completed-

 Pike block with two handed swordsman out in front and wings of arquebusiers on either flank.

Elastolin mortar/cannon which actually fires. Arquebusiers using rock for cover and about to scout ahead. Below:An aerial view with dismounted cavalry at the back.

Peasants undercoated and ready for painting over the next few days...

40mm figures advancing on two fronts...

My forty millimetre figures are advancing on two fronts. Firstly the 1549 Western Rising and secondly the German Peasants War. Makes practical and economic sense to collection a core for both with a few specific figures for each one. Here is some background reading-

Every game needs a personality to hang the narrative upon. I am lucky with such a person in the shape of Gotz Von Berlichingen! I first encountered him as a boy in the Elastolin catalogue and was fascinated by his iron hand too. He is a larger than life figure who is fascinating to read about. I have a figure of him( see below) and here are a few pictures of his hand and article about him.