More handguns and crossbows!

Here's two more units of missile troops, a mixture of handgunners and crossbowmen.

These are mostly figures painted years ago, rebased for the second time, with some new additions from this year's Steel Fist Miniatures releases. I've been working on these at the same time as the previously posted Burgundian handgunners. I chose my favourites of the older miniatures, smartened them up a bit (I now paint belt buckles, which I didn't use to do!) and mixed them with the new ones. With the previous handgunners I now have three small 10-man skirmisher units for the Burgundian side, finally based and arranged in poses I'm happy with.

The first unit is supposed to represent German and/or Swiss mercenaries, so I've chosen those figures with Germanic kettle helmets and Swiss turbans, with all armour being mail shirts and breastplates, and several with basilard daggers. Funnily enough many of these are converted from the Perry Miniatures Italians, just with some simply headswaps.

The second unit is supposed to be more generic troops for the Burgundian side - the figures with padded jacks and brigandines were saved for this one, as I understand these armour types were rarely used in the German lands. With no livery jackets or badges, they could also serve as various rebel factions, or indeed French. There are some more of the headswapped Italians here, and a couple of other metal Perry sculpts with new plastic arms.