Last spring I opted to take a break from painting Epic scale TYW and dig into the lead pile.  I have a number of War of Religion era Landsknechts and Gendarmes from a successful Kickstarter from back in 2017 still awaiting my attention. I worked at them over time, but never really got them finished.  Even after returning from my Germany deployment in  2023, I got a lot of paint of them  but basing and pikes eluded me.   Cut to last Spring when I decided to just have a go at emptying out the 28mm Renaissance box.  First up was a unit of supporting Harquebus   I quite like how the guy on the left is looking slack-jawed at the camera. That was followed by a mounted General that I think was supposed to be Charles V Lastly, I finished the last of my Pikemen in a very colorful unit.  (I wanted to experiment with Slapchop methods for these guys.) This of course inspired me to go back and touch up the existing stands as many had lost their wir...