Perry Miniatures Italian Wars of Louis XII - Italian Handgunners

These form part of an ongoing project - armies for Louis XII and his allies / enemies for his Italian Wars.  These are Italian handgunners, which (for variety) I have selected from three different Italian states;

First up, the bold men of Siena.  Deep yellow with small black-and-white badges on either sleeve or breast.  As with other bright schemes, I've tried to pair the bright yellow of the jackets with duller hose colours.  Sadly, as I paint the rms before final assembly, I didn't notice until too late that three of the gunners have more or less the same pose... Hopefully the different bodies / heads minimise this.

Side view of the men from Siena.  Two of the gunners have optional Perry 'Renaissance heads', metal accessories to allow more variety in your armies.  They're a useful way to make the troops appear later than the kit intends, as the move into the 16th century saw more cloth and less metal on its fighting men.

The Florentine contingent.  A general red and white theme here, with red fleur-de-lis badges (they look better in real life than in the pictures!).  With mostly white clothing, you can afford to go bold with colour in places you normally wouldn't - hence the chap at the back scoring for a red hat, and two of the troop sporting red hose.

Side view of the Florentines.  Again, some of them are equipped with metal heads in hats, rather than the kit heads with (mostly) helmets.  Slightly higher proportion among the Florentines than the Sienese, reflecting Florence's wealth and modernity.

Papal States this time, as the white badge on red contrasts nicely with the red badge on white of the Florentines.  A slightly duller red was used, with plain hose colours (though I wish I'd not used green on one of them, black and white might have worked better).

Side view of the Papal States troops.