Perry Miniatures 28mm Burgundian Handgunners

There isn't much which shouts out '15th century European Warfare' quite like a Burgundian Handgunner.  Well, an English archer perhaps.  Or a French Gen D'armes.  Or a Spanish Sword-and-buckler man.  A Swiss halberdier.  Ok... the list goes on - but the Burgundian handgunners are definitely in there!  Peter Dennis even put them centre front of his box art for the Perry European Mercenaries plastic kit...

... and it was this kit which formed the basis of a unit of handgunners which a client planned to use as mercenaries in his Wars of the Roses games.  If you check some earlier posts, you'll see I've already tackled medieval Burgundy a couple of times, and the same scheme was applied here - royal blue and white jackets, with a crimson saltire.

Hose colour varies, from dull but serviceable brown, through black-and-white parti, crimson, to blue-and-white parti (very patriotic).  This helps to add variety without spoiling the unit feel (as I've mentioned in other posts), but if you find you've accidentally done two very similar chaps (2nd and 3rd from left), just rotating the miniature a few degrees on its base makes them look much less twinned.  Perry plastics are a lot less 'animated' than some other plastic kits, making them much easier to rank-up, and easier to place on small bases (less chance of half a yard of weaponry poking out, or them trying to balance on one leg for all eternity).