Aut Cesar, Aut Nihil, Wargaming the Borgias.

Aut Cesar, Aut Nihil, Wargaming the Borgias.

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Salute 2016 and the return of the Black Bande.

Well Ive posted my 'bit' about Salute on my main blog, and I think I have said enough about the show, however I didnt record what I actually purchased at the show!
 I try not to record how much I have spent on my hobby, because, a] it scares the crap out of me and b] my wife would scare the crap out of me too.However I am pleased that I bought the following, and after a lot of pleading and badgering I managed to buy my long suffering wargames partner's French Black Bande.

 When John Reidy and I were wargaming in the 1980's we both had renaissance armies in 25/28mm. John who has always been a great painter decided to sell the whole collection about 1987 and move into 6mm. I followed a year later, before naturally returning to 28mm a few years ago.
 I always wanted to recover John's collection as it was so damned good, the majority was lost never to be recovered, but Jim Sweeney somehow managed to buy the French Black Bande from E Bay some years ago. Anyway Jim finally and very kindly agreed to sell the Bande to me at I finally got my hands on it at Salute. Jim also generously gave me the small number of mounted arquebusiers that John had also painted back then. Who says all Yorkshire men are mean eh. I have put the correct standards on the unit , so now the Black Bande is ready to face their Spanish enemies. It is a wonderful unit, and will have a small complement of mounted arquebusiers to go with it soon. I reckon the unit is about 30 plus years old, and I still enjoy looking at the great paint job that John did on the unit. Happy days.







8 comments:

  1. They look great, Hinchcliffe? I hope you bought lots of new renaissance figures to paint up!
    Best Iain

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  2. Iain,
    I bought a lot of the new Warlord French Wars of Religion figures at Salute, oh and a 'few' figures from the old Foundry Wars of Religion range. I am like a child.

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    1. Thanks Steve,
      John has always been a very good painter, and seemed to take the Gilder painting style one step further. The photographs do not do them justice.

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  4. They look great Robbie. Exactly how I remember them. Great to see them again. Maybe another outing with your old and new armies will be in the offing?

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    1. Shaun,
      What would be better is if you decided to down size your collection, and let me have first dibs on John's Italian Wars armies, but yes there will be an outing in the very near future.

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  5. Nice to send them home Rob, 'Pete's' flags look the part too. Still got to get another game with you mate.
    Jim.

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    1. Thanks again Jim for your generosity, as for a game, that is easily sorted, just give me some dates.

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Honour Guard of Cesare Borgia.

Honour Guard of Cesare Borgia.