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Title: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on March 07, 2018, 07:31:00 PM
I'd like to show some new additions to my TYW range. The pics are really fresh and it will take some time to cast them.  :)

(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/2/new-ph-tyw-1-jpg/)
(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/2/new-ph-tyw-2-jpg/)
(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/2/new-ph-tyw-3-jpg/)
(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/2/new-ph-tyw-4-jpg/)
(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/2/new-ph-tyw-5-jpg/)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Keith on March 07, 2018, 07:58:47 PM
Wow, those are wonderful.  :-*
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: whiskey priest on March 07, 2018, 08:15:29 PM
What are you doing to me! Lovely figures. Getting to the point where I can't resist anymore.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: OSHIROmodels on March 07, 2018, 08:41:36 PM
Lovely figures  8)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: NurgleHH on March 07, 2018, 08:57:29 PM
And where will I get them?

Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Hu Rhu on March 07, 2018, 08:59:58 PM
Absolutely love them.   :o :o Especially the dismounted commander without helmet.  I must have him. Perhaps you can send a link to your web page?
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Antonio J Carrasco on March 07, 2018, 09:43:47 PM
Bohemian Miniatures, if I am not wrong.

https://www.horcata.eu/

Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: has.been on March 07, 2018, 10:02:33 PM
How much?
When available?
Where available from?
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: sepoy1857 on March 08, 2018, 01:18:31 AM
LOVE these. Amazing!
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: carlos marighela on March 08, 2018, 03:00:04 AM
Very nice indeed.  Not only are the sculpts lovely but Emil provides excellent service btw.*


Emil I do wish you would expand your Czechoslovakian army range a little. I'd love some Schwarzlose MGs and crew and some more State Police or Financial Guards would be great.  It's been fun making conversions from other lines but I'd love to see what Mr Hicks could do with the subject matter.


* No personal connection save for being a happy customer.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Arlequín on March 08, 2018, 04:06:49 AM
They are very nice indeed.   :)

Emil I do wish you would expand your Czechoslovakian army range a little. I'd love some Schwarzlose MGs and crew and some more State Police or Financial Guards would be great. 

I agree, I've waited for years for that range to be expanded and completed.  :(

While not everyone might want to game a 'what-if' of the Sudeten Crisis or the Occupation of Sub-Carpathia, that they can be used as Slovaks in WWII might be interesting to some.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Antonio J Carrasco on March 08, 2018, 05:33:53 AM
Very nice indeed.  Not only are the sculpts lovely but Emil provides excellent service btw.*

(...)


* No personal connection save for being a happy customer.

Agreed! I would add that the casts are very clean, which is a plus in my book.

Another happy customer, by the way.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Lt. Hazel on March 08, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
Yes Emil These are really nice!!! I will definatly buy Them all!
Jan
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Paul Richardson on March 08, 2018, 07:54:54 AM
Oh yes.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Captain Blood on March 08, 2018, 08:07:42 AM
Splendid Emil - and well done Mr Hicks. More superb sculpting  :-*
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Big Martin Back on March 08, 2018, 09:16:10 AM
No! Please don't tempt me so much to start something new. Great figures.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Paul Richardson on March 08, 2018, 01:37:51 PM
Emil: please post again when these figures are available.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Corso on March 08, 2018, 02:55:38 PM
Wonderful sculpts especially the officer
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: THE CID on March 08, 2018, 03:05:06 PM
Emil is great to deal with and his figures are lovely casts A+. Will definitely be getting these.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Paul Richardson on March 08, 2018, 06:04:58 PM
Me too. I would add that he sells the figures individually (rather than in packs), so you only buy what you actually want and need.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on March 08, 2018, 07:32:16 PM
Thank you for your kind comments. I also like the figures very much.  :D

Just to answer some of the questions. The figures will be available in my eshop - https://www.horcata.eu/eshop/ - together with the existing figures.

This year I'm, apart from the TYW, going to pay attention to the Czechoslovak army. I should have enlarged the range, but there's always been something else to settle. This year is suitable enough for them because of the sad 80-years anniversary (1938 - 2018).  ;)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: NurgleHH on March 08, 2018, 07:50:24 PM
Yes Emil These are really nice!!! I will definatly buy Them all!
Jan
I have to do it! Bought the rest, but the new ones needed so long to be released...

Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Arthur on March 10, 2018, 04:07:49 PM
I shall also be getting these when they are released  :)

By the way Emil, have you considered adding a couple of cavalry officers to your range ? Say one for the cuirassiers and one for the arquebusiers as your cavalry is a bit light on leadership at the moment
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Calimero on March 10, 2018, 05:07:16 PM

Amazing figures! 8)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Metternich on March 10, 2018, 05:08:57 PM
Nice clean sculpts that really capture the flavor of the period.  Bravo.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on March 10, 2018, 07:15:33 PM
I shall also be getting these when they are released  :)

By the way Emil, have you considered adding a couple of cavalry officers to your range ? Say one for the cuirassiers and one for the arquebusiers as your cavalry is a bit light on leadership at the moment

Arthur, I have considered the cavalry officers. They are in the line ... it's only a question of time.  ;)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Paul Richardson on March 23, 2018, 06:45:30 PM
Arthur: if you're looking for a cavalry officer suitable for a unit of arquebusiers, until Emil produces one you could try the Mounted Dragoon Command in Brigade Games range for King Philip's War. I believe that Paul Hicks is the sculptor of bother this range and Emil's, so the sculpting style should match.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Arthur on March 23, 2018, 11:38:02 PM
I take it you mean the bloke in the middle, Paul :

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/BG-KPW120-Mounted-Dragoon-Command-3--choice-of-horses_p_4489.html (http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/BG-KPW120-Mounted-Dragoon-Command-3--choice-of-horses_p_4489.html)

I have him, but he is not quite what I was hoping for as the proportions are a bit different from the Bohemian Troops range. His head is slightly smaller, his legs much thinner and most of all, he is very flat when you look at him from the side, especially for a guy wearing back and breast plates over a buff coat - dunno if he was sculpted that way or if something happened during casting. 

He'll do though, but he doesn't match Emil's range as well as one might imagine.   
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Paul Richardson on March 24, 2018, 03:23:00 PM
Arthur: yes, that is the figure I was meaning. I wasn't aware of the problems with him, but looking at him 'in the flesh', you're quite right about him. The figure on the right in the photo is even worse, by the way.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: chema1986 on March 27, 2018, 07:47:39 AM
I take it you mean the bloke in the middle, Paul :

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/BG-KPW120-Mounted-Dragoon-Command-3--choice-of-horses_p_4489.html (http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/BG-KPW120-Mounted-Dragoon-Command-3--choice-of-horses_p_4489.html)

I have him, but he is not quite what I was hoping for as the proportions are a bit different from the Bohemian Troops range. His head is slightly smaller, his legs much thinner and most of all, he is very flat when you look at him from the side, especially for a guy wearing back and breast plates over a buff coat - dunno if he was sculpted that way or if something happened during casting. 

He'll do though, but he doesn't match Emil's range as well as one might imagine.

Really ? What a pitty, so don't you recommend those figures?  I wanted to use the miniatures without English helmets as Spanish mounted arquebusiers for 1650-68...  Are they small then ?
Thanks :)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Kommando_J on March 28, 2018, 05:00:03 AM
Is the officer miniature of a particular person or just generic?
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on March 28, 2018, 05:02:30 PM
Is the officer miniature of a particular person or just generic?

He is based on this guy.  ;) Count Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim

(https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/thirty-years-war-count-heinrich-graf-zu-pappenheim-2905159417111632-picture-id541535473)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Firescale Whack on March 29, 2018, 11:13:11 PM
These are just as lovely as the rest of the range, I look forward to their release!
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on April 30, 2018, 07:19:48 PM
I have just managed to place the new figures into my eshop, so they are available to anyone interested. I only blackwashed the figures - which is just a temporary attempt to show the details (not the best) :) - but I will work hard to paint them. :o

(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/3/artilleryman-2-jpg/)
(https://www.horcata.eu/picture/3/musketeer-fur-cap-jpg/)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Metternich on April 30, 2018, 09:46:28 PM
Fantastic figures - and the Pappenheim is a true portrait.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Firescale Whack on May 01, 2018, 02:32:51 AM
Great news! Will put an order in next pay day. Thanks Emil!
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Ignatieff on May 01, 2018, 03:34:56 AM
 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Arthur on May 01, 2018, 06:46:40 PM
Excellent news, Emil : I shall place an order in a few weeks' time.

The Scots musketeer is an excellent idea, especially for people like me interested in Christian IV's army - Mackay's regiment in Danish service is a unit that has long tickled my fancy. Since they usually received full sets of clothing from their continental employers upon landing in North Germany, Scots mercenaries would have been largely indistinguishable from their German counterparts but a few lads in celtic gear may be allowed to find their way in Scottish units on the tenuous assumption that a minority of men may have clung to their plaids and bonnets after being re-clothed in continental gear. 

Out of curiosity, what is the historical source for the shield-armed pikeman ?
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on May 02, 2018, 04:17:46 PM
Arthur, the pikeman with the shield is practically a targeteer with a pike. :) When going through some texts, I noticed a short mention that in 1649 emperor Ferdinand III decided to keep in service 9 foot, 9 cuirassier and 1 dragoon regiments and this way he actually started the permanent army. In the foot regiment there were 80 targeteers with a shield, rapier and a shorter pike. So, I used that to have the figure sculpted. It can be used with a pike, or it can hold a sword.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on May 02, 2018, 06:30:31 PM
There were also many mercenaries fighting in the Kingdom of Bohemia (such the Scots) and the Spanish Hapsburks supported their kins in Austria with some spanish regiments. So, I suppose they kept their weapon and style of combat. The figure was inspired by the soldier on the painting of the battle of Rocroi.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: NurgleHH on May 02, 2018, 07:06:27 PM
Emil, it would be nice, if you can add the date you added the new figures to thisfigure. I lost the overview.

Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Marine0846 on May 02, 2018, 10:23:46 PM
Love the figures.
The dismounted general is ace.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on May 03, 2018, 09:26:48 AM
Emil, it would be nice, if you can add the date you added the new figures to thisfigure. I lost the overview.

Do you mean the date when I added the new figures to the eshop?  ??? They have been available since 1 May 2018.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: NurgleHH on May 04, 2018, 06:01:46 AM
Do you mean the date when I added the new figures to the eshop?  ??? They have been available since 1 May 2018.
Yes, but for all figures. So I can see, which figures I bought and which figures a new. Every time new figures are added you can see, which figures a new.
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: traveller on May 04, 2018, 08:28:00 AM
Yes, but for all figures. So I can see, which figures I bought and which figures a new. Every time new figures are added you can see, which figures a new.

I´ll second that, figures unfortunately tend to be lost in the huge unpainted lead mountain  8)
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Emil von Karwin on May 04, 2018, 06:25:25 PM
OK, I added a short note to the new figures in the eshop - "Released: 1 May 2018".
Title: Re: Some new TYW sculpts
Post by: Paul Richardson on May 08, 2018, 08:43:39 AM
An amazing service from Emil. I placed my order very late on 30 April. The figures arrived this morning, 8 May. Yesterday was a public holiday in the UK, so that's only 4 working days from the Czech Republic. That puts to shame plenty of UK manufacturers.