My unit of 15th century hussars is fully completed. After the conversions and assembling, the painting of the colorful clothes took a long time.
The "home made" lances got nice paper lance flags with St. George cross on them. The heraldry and the motifes of the shields are from real Hungarian 15-16th century hussar shields. One of them has a Serbian and an other has a Croatian shield. This simbolises that a lot of Serbians and Croatians fought in the hussar units of King Matthias.
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| Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian hussars |
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| Hussarcaptain with mace |
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| Hungarian hussars |
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| Hungarian hussars |
The flag of the unit is based on the woodcut shown in Bonfini's chronicle about King Mathias - the later version. It's a later resource (1540s), but in my opinion this kind of christian flag was typical in these times so we also can allow it for 15th century hussars. At first I drew the pattern of the flag with pencil on paper and next I painted it.
I just admired your work on Benno`s Figure Forum, and hopped over onto your blog to say hello.
ReplyDeleteNice Work,by the way. Splendid in fact!
I did similar with flags but then printed mine out. Well I get pushed for time being very busy these days.
Bye for now BB
Hi! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately this hussar flag is a very special one so I couldn't find it on internet for printing.