Update on the Pavia project

With time winding down on the Pavia project, there are still about 100 figures to paint and a lot of terrain to build before the game goes on the table at Historicon in July. This post shows some of the recent project developments.

Antonio de Leyva

Antonio de Leyva commanded the garrison of the city of Pavia. I really wanted to have him represented for my Battle of Pavia game. One interesting thing about him was that he had severe gout. He therefore needed his aides to take a chair for him to sit on wherever he went.

I spoke to Sijie Hao about whether he would be interested in creating a vignette for me depicting Leyva, his aides and a chair. This post is very short but shows an image that he used for inspiration and the final command base.

There are some more command bases coming and I will post images of these once they arrive.

Heavy cavalry

I also made a lot of progress on both the Imperial and French heavy cavalry during the last month. I still have about 14 heavy cavalry figures left to complete, but the following images show the bulk of the units. It should be remembered that I also have a huge amount of light cavalry in addition to these figures.

All of the cavalry in the images below are from SteelFist Miniatures. I shudder to think how much time I have spent painting these figures.

I have kept the Gendarmes and Archers on separate bases. The Gendarmes are on one base in the front rank. There are then two bases of Archers behind each Gendarme base. This reflects that the Gendarmes usually wanted to lead the charge.

Items in progress for the Pavia project

This weekend I will be finishing the basing of the Pavia park walls and making progress on the trees for the game. I should have a further updates on the Pavia project soon.