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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on April 08, 2020, 12:18:50 PM
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Well, after a break of about 10 years, I'm randomly back onto the English Civil War ::) lol
I'm adding a few new units to my collection (as well as adding a few new figures to some of my existing units here and there, to facilitate their reorganisation into orders of battle suitable for The Pikeman's Lament... )
Here, newly painted, is Sir Pewsey Gallivant's Regiment of Shot... It's a fictitious unit, but the 'orange-tawny' coats appeared in a number of ECW regiments, starting with the Earl of Essex early in the war.
These are Bicorne Miniatures from some of the less often seen packs - which I think were added to the range a few years ago, after many people who went in big to the whole massive Bicorne / Renegade ECW era, had already built up their collections. (Hence why you will rarely find pictures of these particular models online... )
They look very much like Nick Collier sculpts. Paul Richardson (who knows about these things) is trying to verify that.
All I can say is that they're beautifully characterful figures, and a real pleasure to paint.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115510-454051969.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115510-454071223.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115510-454061157.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115510-454041271.jpeg)
This is pack ECW026, musketeers at rest, soft hats...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115007-454011504.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115008-454032232.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115008-454021599.jpeg)
And this is half of pack ECW063, foot command marching, soft hats...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115007-45392830.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-080420115007-45400704.jpeg)
I have another couple of packs of these to do.
Plus Redzed is doing some other units for me. So more to come :)
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Simply gorgeous
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Wowsers! :-*
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Lovely 8)
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Beautiful painting of some lovely sculpts. If anyone has any idea of who the sculptor of these figures was, or when they were introduced to the Bicorne range, Richard and I would be almost pathetically grateful
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Those will look great on the table! Looking forward to some mass battle scenes.
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You certainly made that orange pop!
Faaaantaaaastic.
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Richard, you have surpassed yourself. They are fantastic :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Care to share your orange combination?
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Lovely looking unit :)
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What a beautiful unit!
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Beautiful PJs
8)
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Bang on paintjobs. Bicorne miniatures are lovely sculpts.
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Great painting Captain Blood. IIRC these are firelock musketeers. It's quite apt that you've painted them this way as I'm sure I've read that the firelocks still had tawny coats in the early days of the New Model Army. They certainly look like Nick Collier sculpts as opposed to the Alan Marsh? ones.
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Beautiful painting. :-* So glad you posted this. As I said in your other thread, I've ordered some Bicorne musketeers and it's all your fault! lol
Looking forward to seeing more.
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I've ordered some Bicorne musketeers and it's all your fault! lol
Ah, I get a lot of that lol
They certainly look like Nick Collier sculpts as opposed to the Alan Marsh? ones.
Well they're definitely Collier heads, since some of them are the same as on other figures in the range which he certainly sculpted. I'd stake money on the musketeers being Collier sculpts - the details are all just how he does them, right down to the shape of the shoes.
The command pack I'm slightly less sure about. The officer looks 110% Collier; the standard bearer, not quite so much.
We shall get to the bottom of this condundrum one way or another lol
Richard, you have surpassed yourself. They are fantastic :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Care to share your orange combination?
Thanks Gary.
The orange coats, sashes etc, are:
Base coat - 50:50 Vallejo bright orange : Inscribe burnt sienna (Inscribe paints are sadly no longer available, but any rich red-brown should do)
Second layer - as above, but with more orange mixed in, plus very small amounts of Vallejo bright yellow
Highlights - as per the second layer, but with more yellow and a touch of white mixed in.
Then a VERY thin oil paint wash (like literally, 1 part paint to 99 parts white spirit) of Winsor & Newton 'Winton' burnt umber.
:)
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fantastic figures, thank you for sharing.
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Brilliant painting. :)
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Jolly nice ;D
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Beautiful painting on beautiful figures.
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Really striking paint jobs on lovely figures. You do a very 👋 job of selling people's figure ranges!
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Brilliant! Missed that you’d started these again. :-*
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beautiful work, please keep on posting.
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Brilliant work as usual. In the moment the best work this year. Looking forward to your next unit, maybe some mounted troops?
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So good it hurts to look at them. Bicorne should use your photos to advertise!
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Vodkafan: don't you think any photos at all would be an improvement on the ones Bicorne use. Their own are dreadful.
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Paul, has any-one suggested it to them, I wonder?
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Paul, has any-one suggested it to them, I wonder?
I have now ;)
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Could you also suggest they have photos of ALL their available packs for ECW. I never buy things I can't see a picture of...
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Could you also suggest they have photos of ALL their available packs for ECW. I never buy things I can't see a picture of...
This is the problem with the Bicorne-Stuff. A lot of unpictured Figures...
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Stunning work Captain! 8)
Christopher
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Looks like I'll be revisiting the ECW and BICORNE. It's all your fault Captain.
Beautiful paint jobs by the way.
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Thanks chaps. More stuff nearing completion... :)
Looks like I'll be revisiting the ECW and BICORNE. It's all your fault Captain.
Good >:D
lol
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Finished the other half of pack ECW063... Command marching in soft hats...
These four will be integrated into existing units to bring up the numbers for The Pikeman's Lament, hence the different coat colours etc.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170157-457552491.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170157-457561560.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170158-45758369.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170157-457572411.jpeg)
Applying a 'painting' filter lends them a bit of a Rembrandt air... ;)
(Interestingly, it's also quite revealing of where the different layers of colour and brushstrokes have been applied... )
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170158-457591967.jpeg)
And the whole pack together... Quite the be-sashed parcel of rogues...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170300-457602195.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-200420170300-457611239.jpeg)
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Lovely painting. Really top-notch. I like the pose of that drummer. I'll have to get one.
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Beautiful painting. :-* :-*. :-*
Having seen this pack painted by you I have ordered one for myself. They look superb.
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Wow, great work. In the moment can’t wait to see new stuff here.
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Beautiful work !
P
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Splendiferous :D
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That is lovely work. The (Cooke’s ?) ensign needs to check his bed roll for mice though!
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Sooo pretty :-*
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Fantastic progress with these. Typically colorful and precise - lovely stuff!
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Beauties Richard :-* :-* :-*
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Fabulous painting. :-* :-* :-*
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Excellent Richard :-*
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Lovely painting :-*
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Fantastic!! :-*
Christopher
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Stunning colourful paint work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Wonderful! ;D
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Those are gorgeous - both the figures and the painting.
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More great work on those,the colours are just terrific :-*
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Gorgeous as per usual, Richard. I should ask you for a coupe for my wife to wear as pendants for her earrings.
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Gorgeous as per usual, Richard. I should ask you for a coupe for my wife to wear as pendants for her earrings.
lol A little gaudy perhaps, Peder?
(But then, despite a couple of near misses, I haven't met your wife ;))
Thanks everyone for the lovely comments.
Basically, having rediscovered my enthusiasm for ECW (for the fourth time in my wargaming life ::) lol), I'm now filling out the collection (most of which I put together 10 years ago), with various additional figures and units.
Partly this is because I've spotted various packs of figures that weren't available 10 years ago - and I like 'em!
Partly it's to do with reorganising the entire collection to fit The Pikeman's Lament - which I've decided I quite like too :)
Here, as a bonus, are a couple of these newly painted figures integrated into their unit - Astley's Bluecoat Regiment of Foot (There was an historical Astley, but IIRC he was a Jacob not a Richard... My ECW regiments are semi-fictionalised - some with silly names, some more historical... )
You can see from this, the slight difficulty of integrating new figure into old units... Especially if you're a fuckwit, like me, and fail to have a colour reference of the original unit in front of you when painting the additional figures to make up the numbers!
The original unit was painted for me (along with about 100 other ECW foot) by the brilliant 'Baner' (still an occasional visitor to this forum) about 10 years ago.
They're a mix of Bicorne and Renegade figures, all by Nick Collier.
Let me stress: Apart from the two new command figures, this unit is painted by Baner and not by me.
As you can see, working from memory, not only have I failed to quite match the blue of the coats or the yellow of the officers' sashes, but there are some stylistic differences too.
Baner uses - or on these figures anyway, at that time, used - a much more high contrast method than I use these days. His skin tone is much paler than my ruddy-cheeked fellows. And he paints eyeballs, which I never have.
Not that any of these differences are remotely apparent at tabletop distance, or even from more than about eight inches away TBH. However... I shall be more careful in future...
Anyway, here they are:
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-210420095958-457681650.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-210420095958-457691152.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-210420095959-457701575.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-210420095958-457621481.jpeg)
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(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-210420095958-457621481.jpeg)
Ya gotta love the motto! lol
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One would expect the officers to be more finely dressed, so I think the slight variation is perfect 8)
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Marvellous. I suspect slight colour variations would be more authentic. Because the cloth would be dyed by hand I would imagine one bolt would be more likely than not to be a slightly different colour to the next.
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Sorry, Richard, I misread your post - I'm under pressure to vacate the pc because our 15 - year old needs it for his school work. I think that officers would probably have worn their own clothes - so would not have worn the uniforms given out to the men. Therefore officers wearing something different is, I believe, correct.
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Sorry, Richard, I misread your post - I'm under pressure to vacate the pc because our 15 - year old needs it for his school work. I think that officers would probably have worn their own clothes - so would not have worn the uniforms given out to the men. Therefore officers wearing something different is, I believe, correct.
I agree. I believe that officers in general (no pun intended ;)) wore their own clothes. Certainly Field Officers did. A junior officer such as the Ensign may have worn a uniform coat. But whatever, your figures look superb. Keep them coming. :-*
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As you can see, working from memory, not only have I failed to quite match the blue of the coats or the yellow of the officers' sashes, but there are some stylistic differences too.
I keep a document with all the colors I use to paint my various troops. It helps me if I return to an old project but more often than not is more confusing then just eyeballing it. ;)
Baner uses - or on these figures anyway, at that time, used - a much more high contrast method than I use these days. His skin tone is much paler than my ruddy-cheeked fellows. And he paints eyeballs, which I never have.
Not that any of these differences are remotely apparent at tabletop distance, or even from more than about eight inches away TBH. However... I shall be more careful in future...
In many cases we are our own worse critics. If you can't see the differences on the tabletop well... end of story in my book.
Overall, it is a wonderful unit. Looking forward to see more! :-*
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The painting's great but the Rick Rolling is a bit passe Richard lol
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Fantastic figures. :-* :-* :-* I agree that the slight colour variation is hardly noticeable unless you point it out.
Also you got the basing matching which makes the whole unit blend in really well.
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Ya gotta love the motto! lol
But it's nothing to sing about.
I tried to keep a record of colours used, but when I came to try & match figures,
flipping paint was no longer available!
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Captain you need to be applauded for getting many of us to reopen our interest in the ECW. I'm currently waiting for an order from Bicorne and cannot wait to get started on them. Your colourful paint jobs have inspired us all.
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Great additions.
Lovely painting.
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Thanks :)
Captain you need to be applauded for getting many of us to reopen our interest in the ECW. I'm currently waiting for an order from Bicorne and cannot wait to get started on them. Your colourful paint jobs have inspired us all.
Oh Lord. I'm sorry ;) lol (But thank you :))
Meanwhile, apropos of not very much, I remembered I had these in the lead pile... They're from North Star's 1672 range (I think by Steve Saleh in this case?) so they're a little more Restoration that First Civil War, but hey, only a few years out...
I figured they'd pass muster for a pair of Royalist wicked ladies - supernumeraries for populating game scenarios... :)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-230420150412-458261701.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-230420150412-458181951.jpeg)
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The ladies bid farewell to the brave troops...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-230420150412-458281759.jpeg)
Lady Astley discusses tactics, her companion discusses novel uses for drumsticks...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-230420150412-45829196.jpeg)
And another old master... lol
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-230420150504.jpeg)
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Lovely although for a few seconds I had wondered what you had done in that last photo lol
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Lovely although for a few seconds I had wondered what you had done in that last photo lol
lol It’s supposed to be a ‘painting’ effect. Not very good is it? ;)
Maybe against a burgundy or midnight blue background it could be mistaken for a rembrandt :D
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lol
How about this?
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/2619-230420170605-458302198.jpeg)
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Photographis effects aside, a great pair of figures.
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Sir Richard's backing dancers? With a great pair?
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"La, sire...!" Gorgeous!
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Lovely work on some lovely ladies 8)
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Excellent Richard, not totally
brainwashed converted to the ECW but getting piqued ;)
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Very nice indeed. Given your age in LAF years, surely you qualify as an old master? lol
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Absolutely love how vivid your colours are Captain, well done.
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Beautiful work Captain!! 8)
Christopher
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Very inspiring collection! I wish I had half that number in half that quality.
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Thanks :)
I've painted three more cuirassiers from TAG.
It's the cuirassier command pack. The figure in the lobster pot was orginally a cornet, but in a minor conversion I gave him a sword instead, as I already have a cornet...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-458761016.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-45920917.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-459211584.jpeg)
These are now joining Sir George Prettie's Royalist regiment of horse - 'Prettie's Lobsters'.
(Of course, there's no historical evidence that the Royalists ever had fully armoured regiments of horse, as any fule kno.
There again, there's no historical evidence that they didn't, and I bet all those royal armouries and stately homes had plenty of stocks of armour ;))
These two (Bicorne Miniatures) I did some years ago, I've just retouched them up a bit.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-45922738.jpeg)
And these four were done for me by the brilliant Redzed. Also some years back... (L-to-R, TAG, Renegade, Bicorne, Renegade)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-45923192.jpeg)
Altogether, they now look like this...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420120106-459241872.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420120106-45925630.jpeg)
I added these three extra riders because I wasn't too keen on having the two Bicorne personality figures integrated within the unit...
But now, since 'The Pikeman's Lament' requires horse units of six models, I guess I could just get three more, so I can field two units ;)
lol
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Amazing art objects!
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Beautiful additions, lovely colours :-*
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Lovely, sir.
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Very nice indeed. I've used quite a few of the TAG cuirassiers myself. I've been thinking about using some of the Bicorne figures in 3/4 armour in a new unit - I thought that some of the personality figures might convert quite well into rank and file at rest. I wasn't aware that Renegade made any cuirassiers but they look really good too. Just my luck to decide that I want some when they seem to have gone out of production.
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Lovely additions. :-* :-*
Just out of curiosity, why 9 figures? Are you planning on doing any more?
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Great work Richard. :-*
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Really sweet :-*
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Very nice unit Richard :-* :-* :-*
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'Had he been but fed and watered, he could have withstood a siege'
King Charles about Sir Arthur Haselrigg after the battle of Roundway Down.
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What a great quote :)
Thanks everybody.
Paul, yes it's annoying that Renegade are in one of their periodic shut-downs... It's been a couple of years this time... I don't know why they don't just sell on their ranges and have done with it...
::)
(Maybe I'll make them an offer and become a lead baron ;))
Just out of curiosity, why 9 figures? Are you planning on doing any more?
Thanks Gary. Well...
I added these three extra riders because I wasn't too keen on having the two Bicorne personality figures integrated within the unit...
But now, since 'The Pikeman's Lament' requires horse units of six models, I guess I could just get three more, so I can field two units ;)
lol
;)
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Royalist Lobsters! I must have some of my own now....
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Lovely project Captain.
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Another great looking unit I love your style of painting top work yet again.
Willie
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Thanks Gary. Well...
;)
Sorry, too busy gawping at the artistry to notice mere words. ;) ;)
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lol
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Fantastic painting, Sir.... ;)
I really like your ECW stuff. I had even downloaded your old postings of that georgous ECW game back in the day on my smartphone for my last vacation last summer...
Glad seeing you in that again.
Cheers,
Don
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Thanks Don :)
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The Captain is such a bad influence displaying such lovely figures and providing so much temptation I'm not sure whether to suggest promoting him or banning him lol
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Truly an Artist"
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Lovely brushwork :-* :-* :-*
They are Bicorne right? I, very much like you, love that range and the Renegade. TAG too. 8)
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The three additional cuirassiers are TAG. The rest a mix of Bicorne and Renegade :)
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The three additional cuirassiers are TAG. The rest a mix of Bicorne and Renegade :)
Ta :)
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Great work again, Richard. The figures are not so nice as the foot, but you made them great with your painting. Renegade isn't avaible anymore, right?
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Great work again, Richard. The figures are not so nice as the foot, but you made them great with your painting. Renegade isn't avaible anymore, right?
Right.
Renegade seem to open and close for months or years at a time. They have been closed for about two years now. I do not know if / when they will ever reopen ::) :?
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Excellent as always, that blue works great :-*
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Cheers Chris.
It’s simply Vallejo Dark Prussian Blue with gradually added amounts of white for the highlights :)
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I bet that poor lancer feels lonely. :'(
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Haha. Yes, he's the cornet or standard bearer. I really need to give him a flag ;)
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Ahhh! That makes sense! :)
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A small conversion effort...
I decided I really needed a unit led by a valiant Cavalier lady lol
This was unusual but not unheard of in the real history of the English Civil War. Lady Jane Ingleby of Ripley castle charged with the King's Horse at Marston Moor, and there are several examples of ladies taking command, particularly in the case of sieges of their manor houses or castles. The best known being ardent Parliamentarian Lady Brilliana Harley (Brampton Bryan castle) and Royalist Lady Mary Bankes (Corfe castle).
Anyway, for the purposes of my collection, the (strictly unhistorical) Lady Lucinda Knightley will be leading her own troop of horse.
This required a little bit of conversion work, starting with a pack of TAG Swedish TYW horsemen in back-and-breast armour. (Clearly Lucinda needed to be wearing back-and-breast in order to conceal her actual breasts - a popular motif in folk songs of the period, as well as in many of Shakespeare's 'girl-dressed-as-boy' plotlines of course).
I chopped off one broad-brim-hatted Swedish head (it will get re-used, fear not) and replaced it with a Statuesque (pulp scale) girl's head with ponytail, made good with a new Green Stuff collar, plus ribbons in the gallant lady's hair.
Her two companions have had taller crowns and feather plumes added to their broad brimmed hats - to make them more Cavalier-like.
I also felt that, like Prince Rupert, the dashing Lucinda needed a devoted canine companion to accompany her into battle. So she will be forever guarded by her faithful otterhound, Patch - one of a pair of lovely big hairy 28mm doggies produced by the brilliant Dags, sometimes of this forum (and various others).
Deep purple coats for this unit I think. I'll be bringing them up to six figures in the fullness of time :)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-300420135940-460382034.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-300420135941-46039300.jpeg)
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That works well 8)
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Excellent work. Will you soon be taking commissions? :)
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Brilliant conversions. :-* :-*
At first I thought why ??? ......and then I thought why not. lol lol
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Nice work. Love to see them painted (painted ladies?)
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Very deft work Richard :-* :-* :-*
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I smiled a little bit about “Eine kleine...”.
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Some lovely work here! Like the female head, that’s going to look super painted.
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you can't go wrong with a bit of deep purple ... well, actually you can ( ::) ) ... but look forward to seeing the figures painted up, going to be splendid.
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Thanks gents :)
Painting underway!
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Lovely conversion - they will look great!
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Ah, one of the great pleasures in coming back to LAF after being away for so long is the sheer amount of eye candy to catch up with...
Simpy marvellous stuff Richard! :-*
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Ah, one of the great pleasures in coming back to LAF after being away for so long is the sheer amount of eye candy to catch up with...
Simpy marvellous stuff Richard! :-*
I've had the same experience.
Sometimes stepping back from the hobby can be a great way of enthusing oneself :)
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They work particularly well, especially the lady. :)
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I have some Frostgrave female wizard heads and have been considering doing up a couple of female ECW characters to make up for the lack of armed 17th C ladies out there.
After the Captain's splendid example I think I'm going to have to advance that plan and actually do it!
Those look great, looking forward to seeing them painted.
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Just a thought, but if you want to convert a figure into a female and you mainly use Renegade / Bicorne / Redoubt figures - in other words, the bigger figures available - you could try converting a shorter Perry figure.
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Excellent conversions. Very convincing work.
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@Captain Blood - Love these figures, stunningly beautiful! Did you make the feathers and plumage and sashes from green stuff or are they part of the original sculpt? Thanks.
Thanks :)
I've painted three more cuirassiers from TAG.
It's the cuirassier command pack. The figure in the lobster pot was orginally a cornet, but in a minor conversion I gave him a sword instead, as I already have a cornet...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-458761016.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-45920917.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-459211584.jpeg)
These are now joining Sir George Prettie's Royalist regiment of horse - 'Prettie's Lobsters'.
(Of course, there's no historical evidence that the Royalists ever had fully armoured regiments of horse, as any fule kno.
There again, there's no historical evidence that they didn't, and I bet all those royal armouries and stately homes had plenty of stocks of armour ;))
These two (Bicorne Miniatures) I did some years ago, I've just retouched them up a bit.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-45922738.jpeg)
And these four were done for me by the brilliant Redzed. Also some years back... (L-to-R, TAG, Renegade, Bicorne, Renegade)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420115740-45923192.jpeg)
Altogether, they now look like this...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420120106-459241872.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/45/577-250420120106-45925630.jpeg)
I added these three extra riders because I wasn't too keen on having the two Bicorne personality figures integrated within the unit...
But now, since 'The Pikeman's Lament' requires horse units of six models, I guess I could just get three more, so I can field two units ;)
lol
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@Captain Blood - Love these figures, stunningly beautiful! Did you make the feathers and plumage and sashes from green stuff or are they part of the original sculpt? Thanks.
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say so :)
Actually, the plumes and sashes were all part of the original figures. However, coincidentally, I'm about to add a few more cuirassiers (and half-armoured horse) to my entirely unhistorical Royalist lobster force. And the plain old TYW cuirassiers with swords from TAG, come without plumes and sashes. So I am in the process of adding those from Green Stuff, because I like that splash of colour, and I'd also like the whole unit to look more or less the same in terms of their kit and rig...
The figure on the right is a Bicorne cavalryman (kindly donated by Gibby, thanks David) who will be making up the 6th member of Lady Lucinda Knightley's Troop of Dashing Royalist Horse. And therefore also needed a hatband and feather adding.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200524-46457743.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200524-464581775.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200524-464591112.jpeg)
In other news...
I've finally got round to painting the Warlord Games Montrose personality figure.
For a man trying to use a telescope, I felt the dramatic, wildly shying horse he comes with (an eBob job, if my eyes don't deceive me) didn't look quite right. So I've popped him on a more contemplative and stationary TAG nag - onto which I've sculpted pistols and holsters using Green Stuff.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200417-46451233.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200417-464531859.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200417-464542462.jpeg)
Given his garb, which appears to be a slightly strange cross between a tailored coat and the distinctive early-mid C17th casaque, I decided he'd make a suitable officer to round out my troop of casaque-wearing 'blew' dragoons.
So I'm afraid he's no longer James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose - just an unidentified officer of dragoons.
Nice figure though.
(His original melodramatic horse has been given up to a higher cause - as will be soon be revealed here ;))
I painted the rest of these (all Bicorne IIRC, although a couple are on TAG horses), about 10 years ago.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200417-46455619.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-140520200417-464561031.jpeg)
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(In the voice of Jeremy Clarkson)….Some would say he is in some form of madness, others would merely point out a genius in action, but we all know it is labour of love for @Captain Blood!
Stunning unit and such vivid (a)historical biography too ;) I like them, a lot, and Like what you did with Montrose too :-* :-*. So, thanks to your madness, genius, labour of love, I have spent the past (damn it) 3 hours looking o_o at building my French 1640 shock unit(s) and obviously I then had to build a couple of units for the opposition too, much to the demise of my bank balance!
Do continue to share your passion, your conversions and the figures you use to make up your stunning collection. :)
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Very crisp work with the Greenstuff too Richard 8)
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cracking unit Richard :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Wonderful painting on the (not) Montrose figure. :-* :-* :-* He matches your earlier output perfectly. Can't wait to see Lady Lucinda's troops in colour. ;D
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Very nice work Richard. 8) Love the changes that bring them all together. :-*
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They're all Jolly Nice
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Impressive additions Richard :-*
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fab-a-mundo ! :-*
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Congratulations : you blew it ;)
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Fantastic work Captain! :-*
Christopher
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Really excellent work. I'm very impressed (and rather envious, because I have to pay someone else to do this sort of thing).
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Top work yet again :-* :-* :-*
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Glorious as ever Richard!
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Thanks chaps :)
Can't wait to see Lady Lucinda's troops in colour. ;D
The rest of the troop is nearly done, but meanwhile, here is the ravishing Lady Lucinda ;)
It's a Statuesque head on a TAG body and mount.
The dashing canine companion is one of a pair of otterhounds produced by Dags himself. (I hope, Jon, I've done him - or her - justice!)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112245-46469749.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112246-464701963.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112246-464711568.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112245-464682355.jpeg)
And here's the Lady Lucinda with her brother, the swashbuckling Sir Clifton Knightley. They ride side-by-side into battle against the perfidious Roundheads...
He's a TAG TYW colonel, but mounted on what was Montrose's dramatic steed from Warlord Games.
(As mentioned before, I think the original horse sculpt may be a licensed eBob model, but I could have that wrong... )
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112643-464751096.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112643-464732381.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112643-464741393.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160520112246-46472327.jpeg)
The rest of Knightley's buccaneering troop of Cavalier horse will be along in a day or two, once I've finished the last one :)
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Lovely additions :-*
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That has absolutely made my day :-*
Nailed it, mate 8)
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That dog is really shifting lol
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Class job, from a class painter. The dog is superb, love it.
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I have struggled trying to decide what regiments to collect for Pikeman's Lament (I'm attempting to collect both teams) and I think you have a wonderful idea - fictionalising units
One I have thought of is "Sir Reginald Dwight's Dragoons" (family motto "I still standeth")
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Very nice. Like you, I think that is an Ebob horse.
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Exquisite :-*
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Superb job on Lady Lucinda and her brother. The otterhound is a lovely touch, as is the purple coats of her troop.
Luscious. :-* :-* :-* :-*
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One I have thought of is "Sir Reginald Dwight's Dragoons" (family motto "I still standeth")
Spot on, he’s going to appearing in my collection of 1970s inspired medieval knights.
You could have the Royalist Sir Michael of Bolton with a luxurious head of flowing hair. ;)
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I have struggled trying to decide what regiments to collect for Pikeman's Lament (I'm attempting to collect both teams) and I think you have a wonderful idea - fictionalising units
One I have thought of is "Sir Reginald Dwight's Dragoons" (family motto "I still standeth")
‘Cromwell is leaving tonight on a plane... ‘
Mine are a peculiar mix of invented characters and actual historical ECW figures... quite disrespectful really ;)
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Mine are a peculiar mix of invented characters and actual historical ECW figures... quite disrespectful really
But bloody lovely! :-*
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But bloody lovely! :-*
Thank you ;)
And now, here are the rest of Knightley's Troop of Horse.
All from TAG, except the figure on the right, which is a Bicorne figure kindly donated to the cause by Gibby - thank you :)
The three troopers have all had feathers added to their hats. The trumpeter is as he comes, from the half-armoured TYW cuiraisser command pack (although I've swapped him onto a standing TAG Renaissance horse).
The motif on his trumpet banner is, naturally, the key to the kingdom (the Knightleys have a high opinion of themselves ;))
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-180520152022-465421908.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-180520152022-465461420.jpeg)
And all together, with Lady Lucinda and Sir Clifton, and the irrepressible Patch...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-180520152023-465481264.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-180520152023-465492213.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-180520154044-46553643.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-180520154045-465542296.jpeg)
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VERY nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Superb 8)
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VERY nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Cheers Colin :)
Just like pirates, it turns out you can never have too many cavaliers...
Superb 8)
Thanks Jon.
It's your Dags hound that really makes them ;)
(I think the other one is going to have to fight for Parliament though. Brother against brother. Litter-mate against litter-mate lol)
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Stunning, just stunning. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* I feel unworthy to upload pics of my mere dabblings with a paint brush :-I
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Just like pirates, it turns out you can never have too many cavaliers...
Nope!
And those are very charming!
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Nope!
And those are very charming!
Thanks Ray.
Stunning, just stunning. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* I feel unworthy to upload pics of my mere dabblings with a paint brush :-I
You better had lol
Practice is all it takes. Would love to see what you come up with :)
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Lovely work
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A gorgeous troop. :-* :-*
The Bicorne figure doesn't look out of place at all. I've always thought that Bicorne were much bigger than other ranges except Renegade. Is that down to changing horses or are the TAG ECW and Bicorne figures that compatible?
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Thanks Gary :)
No, you're absolutely right. The TAG figures are definitely more diminutive, and Renegade in particular (and to a slightly lesser extent Bicorne) are very much on the large 28mm side.
But this is much more noticeable with the foot figures than the mounted ones. The horses, interestingly, are about the same size across all three ranges - and this happens to be one of the smaller Bicorne ECW horses.
If you look carefully though, the Bicorne rider is much more anatomically correct, especially as his legs are about 3mm longer!
Lovely as they are, for some reason, in his work for TAG, Nick Collier has taken to sculpting his mounted figures with strangely stumpy lower limbs. It doesn't really notice at first glance, especially once the figure is painted and mounted in situ. But 'in the raw' many of the TAG mounted figures appear weirdly short in the leg. I can't fathom why he does this. In his work for Bicorne and Renegade, he made anatomically more correct (but much bigger) figures. His brief from TAG (and I have some of his first TAG Renaissance figures from 11 or 12 years ago) seems to have been to aim for slightly smaller, 'true 28mm' figures. The result seems to have been some slightly odd compromises in the anatomy department!
I still very much like them though. Bundles of character.
As far as TAG foot figures go, I double mount them (a 20mm washer on top of a 25mm washer - which vanishes under the basing) to just boost their height by an extra 2mm-3mm, so they don't look too noticeably titchy alongside my Bicorne / Renegade figures.
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Absolute colour bombs Richard, excellent :-*
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Brilliant
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Those are absolutely gorgeous, definetly a bunch of Royalist pomps.
I’ve been avoiding this thread precisely because of this sort of temptation and now I’m off to the lower basement to look at my boxes of unpainted Bicorne. It’s just a look, ok? A look can’t hurt, can it.
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Gorgeous and crisp colours, Richard. Another brilliant unit!
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Wonderful painting as always Captain, but I feel you've missed an opportunity by not naming Lucinda or Patch Keira instead ;D
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Gorgeous work, simply lovely colours and so well painted. :-* :-* :-*
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
Boo!
Oops, I mean bloody fantastic, Richard. Just effing wonderful! It's always a delight to see your stuff. So productive and always to such a high standard. I am in the grip of petty, bitter jealousy, but am also inspired. :)
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that mutt is lovely :)
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So, you have to put me in your will for that ECW collection and if there's something I have in my collection that you want, I wil ldo the same. 8)
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Thanks all. Much appreciated :)
So, you have to put me in your will for that ECW collection and if there's something I have in my collection that you want, I wil ldo the same. 8)
lol Of course ;)
I’ve been avoiding this thread precisely because of this sort of temptation and now I’m off to the lower basement to look at my boxes of unpainted Bicorne. It’s just a look, ok? A look can’t hurt, can it.
No, it definitely can't hurt... ;)
Just don't get sucked into buying more... :D
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Amazing work! The added feather to that Bicorne cavalryman (and the amendments to all the figures) really adds to the character of the model. It's even more awesome to see him so beautifully painted up after recently owning him in the bare metal! :D
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lol
Thanks David.
He’s turned out well :)
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Top class once again well done :-* :-*
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You better had lol
Practice is all it takes. Would love to see what you come up with :)
Well now I have my basing materials arrived I can get them finished but they are a completely different period so might not be your cup of tea...…. ;)
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@Captain Blood and others
What do you use as a base for the basing of your figures?
In the past I have used all sorts from thick artists board to the plastic sheets used in PCB manufacture (cannot recall the proper name for the plastic). The thick plastic sheets are the best as they never warp, ever, unlike MDF and other thick cardboard. The negative side is need an industrial cutter to be honest to cut them See pic. The things is where to get some more from and have it cut?
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Ah, sorry, I’m afraid I probably can’t help you there. All my figures are based individually on metal washers, except for these ECW cavalry, which are individually based on 2mm MDF rectangles 60mm long by 30mm wide. Not sure whereabouts you are in the world. In the UK, you can buy these very cheaply on eBay. Like 3 GBP for a pack of 15 with free shipping. I have about 120 cavalry figures on these bases, some for 10-12 years, and they’ve never warped. If you’re multi-basing your figures though, then I guess big sections of MDF could warp, although I’d be surprised to be honest. I have large sheets of MDF terrain boards and they’ve never warped either, although I do keep them laid flat in a stack when not in use.
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Ah, sorry, I’m afraid I probably can’t help you there. All my figures are based individually on metal washers, except for these ECW cavalry, which are individually based on 2mm MDF rectangles 60mm long by 30mm wide. Not sure whereabouts you are in the world. In the UK, you can buy these very cheaply on eBay. Like 3 GBP for a pack of 15 with free shipping. I have about 120 cavalry figures on these bases, some for 10-12 years, and they’ve never warped. If you’re multi-basing your figures though, then I guess big sections of MDF could warp, although I’d be surprised to be honest. I have large sheets of MDF terrain boards and they’ve never warped either, although I do keep them laid flat in a stack when not in use.
<---------UK so the MDF bases will do. Where do you purchase your MDF bases from Capt. B?
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<---------UK so the MDF bases will do. Where do you purchase your MDF bases from Capt. B?
Here you go... :)
Normally delivered within a couple of days.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RECTANGLE-60mm-x-30mm-NATURAL-MDF-BASES-for-Roleplay-Miniatures/174005138313?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=472804044773&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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Thanks Ray.
You better had lol
Practice is all it takes. Would love to see what you come up with :)
Ok I've put up a couple of pics here
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=124824.0
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A very small update...
One additional figure for Sir Marmaduke Fondling's Pinkcoat Regiment of Shot...
This is an extra figure that Gibby kindly sent me - so I thought the least I could do was paint him.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-060620120242-46831515.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-060620120242-468301898.jpeg)
Interestingly, most of my ECW foot units were painted for me some years ago by my good friend, the excellent baner.
I was recently trying to match his unique painting style on a few extra figures I bought to bulk out some of those units, but I just couldn't get the colours right at all. So baner kindly agreed to paint those figures for me too - I'm expecting them back shortly :)
Meanwhile I received this additional figure from Gibby. I think I've finally done a passable job of matching baner's style. (You can tell it's not quite my usual style, because I've painted his eyes - and I NEVER paint eyes on 28mm figures lol)
Here he is alongside one of baner's paintjobs - not too dissimilar, although I just noticed haven't managed to get the skin tone the same at all. Ah well...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-060620120242-4682773.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-060620120242-46829871.jpeg)
Once I've received those other figures back (and based them), I'll update with pictures of all the respective units, so you'll gradually get to see the whole ECW collection in this one thread.
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Nice addition to the collection and tidy match up job on that mini Richard :)
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Outstanding collection..your Painting is top notch...love the depth of your painting..
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Keep them coming
Lovely :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Excellence :-*
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Thanks lads :)
Next up - I've painted three more cuirassiers, to round them out to 12 - so two units of six as far as The Pikeman's Lament is concerned...
These additions are from TAG. The officer and cornet are from the TYW German half-armoured reiter command pack. The fully armoured cuirassier is from the 'TYW cuirassiers with swords' pack. The unit is generic. The flag is semi-fanciful - the armoured arm holding a sword was a historical device used in the ECW. The motto 'Fas / Patria' (faith and fatherland) was my old school motto.
I have no idea if it was used in the civil war era, but it sounds like it should have been ;)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153028-468952458.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153028-468982360.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153029-46899334.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153030-46900112.jpeg)
And here they are with the first three TAG cuirassiers I painted a few weeks ago...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153737-469022049.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153030-469011193.jpeg)
And here, with the pre-existing unit - four of which were painted for me by Redzed (nos. 2,3, 5 and 6 in the rear rank).
I've also finally given a flag to the TAG cornet he painted for me. That only took 10 years lol
It's boring blue, because it took me about two hours to paint and letter the other one, and I honestly couldn't be bothered to do another one like that.
All my flags, by the way, are made from tomato puree tube foil.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153738-469032044.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153738-469041228.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-120620153739-469051128.jpeg)
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Swoon
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Stunningly good
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Top notch job on those :-*
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Gaw-juss!
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After a horrendous week and by end of play today two bikes down this has made me smile :-*
@Captain Blood If you could capture your brush strokes and sell them by the bijou bottle you'd be a millionaire - just gorgeous! :-*
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Very handsome! :-*
Should stand out well on the table top!
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Lovely work, Richard (and Red - peeps don't realise just how much skill there is in trying to match another's painting style) 8)
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Beautifully painted.
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Smashing! :-*
Your school motto is interesting it’s missing et, though perhaps the meaning is more succinct as it is; faith,country,as opposed to faith and country. My Latin is poor in idipsum lol
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Stunning work on the cornets, Captain!
The only Latin I know is 'pugnare elefantos periculosus est' which unfortunately has few real-world or gaming applications. I recall many an hour struggling painting cornets for my former ECW collection (Foundry and Front Rank mostly). My favourite was Waller's 'Fructus Virtutis'. It is almost impossible to scale so I understand the convention to overscale them for the sake of clarity. Things have certainly come on since I gamed ECW.
The Dr. Williams Library in London holds some manuscripts depicting Royalist cornets. We used them when the Royal Armouries put on their 'Civil War' touring exhibition back in 1992. Some are illustrated in the accompanying exhibition booklet. I was fortunate enough at the time to crew 'Raven', the ECWS saker, on a salute firing at Coventry. That is undoubtedly where I caught the black-powder bug and an interest in artillery has stayed with me to this day...
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With lettering, I wonder whether the transfers used by railway modellers might help on occasion. They seem to come in various colours and sizes.
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Another great unit interesting to see both artists work blended in the same unit works seamlessly.
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Stunning as always. :-* :-* :-*
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Thanks all for the comments :)
Smashing! :-*
Your school motto is interesting it’s missing et, though perhaps the meaning is more succinct as it is; faith,country,as opposed to faith and country. My Latin is poor in idipsum lol
Yes, you're quite right, Guy. It was actually 'Fas et patria' which I think literally translates from Latin as 'Faith and fatherland', but a looser translation of the intent behind the motto was probably something like 'God and country' :)
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Wicked cool :D
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Excellent work Richard :-* :-* :-*
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Stunning work and I would never have guessed that two different painters were involved! An amazing feat!
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A unit anybody would be proud to field, beautiful. You've just made me order more figures, you swine. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Some fabulous painting, Captain. You certainly bring the best out of these sculpts!
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Thanks David, and all :)
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An inspiring thread, luckily I have way too many projects on the go to get involved with a new one but it is very tempting.
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Excellent Richard, you're really knocking them out. Careful though, them amphetamines are addictive ;)
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Magnificent indeed. How do you get such a perfect white background in you photos? The painting is of course perfect. Amazing how well you matched the earlier work.
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Magnificent indeed. How do you get such a perfect white background in you photos? The painting is of course perfect. Amazing how well you matched the earlier work.
Thanks.
As far as the white background goes, I shoot against a sheet of white paper under a bright daylight fluorescent light. I also generally over-expose the photo slightly. Any shadows in the corners, or bits of dust, flock etc, I just airbrush out of the image.
A unit anybody would be proud to field, beautiful. You've just made me order more figures, you swine. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent lol
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The latest additions...
This is another of the (seldom seen) Bicorne 'musketeers at rest' packs. This time, the helmeted pack.
These have been painted for me by my good friend, Baner.
To repeat: NOT PAINTED BY ME
I have merely based them and done a little touching up here and there (like turning the pipe smoker's pipe into a clay pipe rather than a rosewood churchwarden ;))
People have asked me why I sometimes pay other people to do painting for me, when I can clearly paint myself.
In this case, it's because a large proportion of my existing ECW foot were painted for me by Baner around 10 years ago. He has a very distinctive painting technique, and I find it difficult to mimic it.
Since these additional figures will be intermixed into existing units previously painted by Baner, I prefer to keep the same style (I can live with slight stylistic differences between units, but not within the same units - yes, I'm anal like that :))
More generally - and the reason why I contracted Baner to paint 100+ ECW foot for me in the first place all that time ago, is because I paint best when dealing with a few figures at a time, usually 4 - 6, (absolute max 10). The prospect of painting 20 or 30 figures in one lift, never mind 100+, is horrific to me. My painting is too slow; my attention span too short.
The other reason TBH, is that I just get bored of painting a particular period, genre or collection when reaching the end of a slog through them. So if I still have figures for it that need finishing off, I'd prefer to sub them out and pay someone to get that army finished, rather than having 20 or 30 leftover figures sitting in the lead mountain.
Anyway, enough waffle and self-justification lol
Here they are...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160620160643-469591686.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160620160644-469622159.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160620160644-46961146.jpeg)
And here they are with some of the earlier figures that Baner painted for me.
This now gives me 2 x 12 man New Model Army shot units in helmets for The Pikeman's Lament. (I also have 2 x 12 NMA shot in soft hats)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/577-160620160644-46960686.jpeg)
I've got some more of Baner's painted figures to finish basing, and they too will supplement existing units in the same way, to bring them up to strength for TPL...
Photos to follow once done :)
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Baner's got talent :-* :-* :-*
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Lovely unit Richard :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Good Lord!
They have eyes! :o
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They are delightful :-*
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Thanks Steve :)
Good Lord!
They have eyes! :o
This indeed is how you can tell they’re not painted by me lol
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Beautiful sculpts and painting. I'm very tempted to see what use I can make of those firelocks at rest packs. I wouldn't hesitate if they had rests and all were wearing 12 Apostles.
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I wouldn't hesitate if they had rests and all were wearing 12 Apostles.
But the new firelocks were a technical improvement on the old musket and rest and apostles with less risk of accidental ignition, hence their use as baggage and ammunition guards...
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I'm sure you're right, but it doesn't help me much when I'm modelling regiments equipped with matchlocks with musket rests.
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Here are the next few figures painted for me by Baner - NOT PAINTED BY ME - to bulk out some units in my resurgent ECW collection.
These are TAG miniatures from the English musketeers marching and advancing packs.
I had to do a tiny bit of touching up here and there to help them match the units they're going into, and I did the basing myself.
Because they're from TAG, they are very diminutive, so I've double-mounted them on a 20mm washer fixed onto my usual 25mm washer base. This is concealed by the basing materials, but that extra couple of mm serves to just pop them up a bit, and make them look less titchy amongst my Bicorne and Renegade ranks by the same sculptor.
I have to say, looking at these, that one or two of them are not such great sculpts. In all honestly, much as I love Nick Collier as a sculptor, and much of his work for TAG is lovely, especially the character and command packs, I actually think he was better when working in the larger 'heroic 28mm' scale for Renegade and Bicorne. The posing and anatomy of some of his rank and file TAG figures is simply not as good. They look less natural and more toy-like - much more like traditional wargames munchkins than his equivalent figures for Bicorne and Renegade. Ah well...
I also failed to notice (when cleaning these up before sending to Baner to be painted), that in a couple of cases the muskets are attached to the hats, giving slightly wonky barrels - which I hate lol
Still, can't be helped now. I shall just have to control my OCD response ;)
All that said, Baner has once again done an excellent job, I'm sure you'll agree :)
These three dowdy fellows will be joining Sir Melville Gibson's Trained Band.
The floppy hat man is a head swap (yes, it's the head I chopped off a TAG TYW Swedish cavalryman in order to create Lady Lucinda Knightley - remember her from a few pages back? ;))
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-210620113402-470051619.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-210620113402-47006501.jpeg)
These for Sir Marmaduke Fondling's pinkcoat regt. of shot...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-210620113402-47007626.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-210620113402-470081949.jpeg)
And these two for Sir Lucius Spoons' Greencoat regt. of shot...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-210620113402-47009342.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-210620114755.jpeg)
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Ace Richard (and the mysterious Baner) :-* :-* :-*
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Pffffff
Eye's are overrated lol
This is quite the collection. I think an entire group shot is in order :D
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This is quite the collection. I think an entire group shot is in order :D
Yes indeed.
I have another 32 figures out on commission with Redzed, plus another assorted 30 or so to paint myself ::)
Once that lot are all done, I’ll take some pics of the whole collection - which will then total around 350 figures.
That’s going to be some game of The Pikeman’s lament - about 50 units in total (it’s really only designed for half a dozen units per side lol)
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How many weeks do you have set aside for such a game?
lol
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Lovely :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Looking forward to the game report :D
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Very nice painting. If you want taller TAG figures, the German figures in boot hose are taller than the earlier ones, and to my eye they look better proportioned. IMHO, the musketeers in boot hose are some of the nicest figures Nick has sculpted. But they've got musket rests, which makes them too early, and they're probably too German, for your ECW collection.
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I agree with that statement @Paul Richardson. The later Germans are indeed much better sculpts.
I see no problems in using them for ECW as musket rests were commonly issued to regiments during the Civil War and even the boot hose that some of them wear, I would explain away as something they picked up whilst serving on the continent. I plan to use them to represent a local volunteer regiment. Similarly the newer German Pike are better too.
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They look fantastic :-*.
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How many weeks do you have set aside for such a game?
lol
How many turns? ;D
Gorgeous collection :-*
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Westwaller: what you say about musket rests is, I think, true. It may be that what you say about boot hose is true too - I'm not in a position to say one way or the other. The point I was trying to make is that the Captain wanted figures which matched his existing lovely collection so that he could increase the size of existing units, and his existing musketeers I've seen do not carry rests and are not dressed in boot hose, so the TAG musketeer figures in boot hose wouldn't really work for him.
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Yeah, I see what you are saying, they would look a little out of place in this wonderful collection. 🙂
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This is true. But thank you, gentlemen, for your suggestions. They do look very nice figures.
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A small update, a couple of supplementary captains to join my regiments of horse (actually they're TAG TYW colonels, but I think they'll pass muster - the chap holding his lobster pot would make rather a good Cromwell I think - absent the mole on his forehead of course... ;))
I might post pics of these with their respective troops of horse if I get time to shoot some more pics over the next day or two...
The standing horse has holsters and pistols added from Green Stuff...
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Lovely painting. How did you find these TAG figures? If they're the set I'm thinking of, I found the riders quite small.
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Lovely :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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They're on the smaller side, yes. Bit bigger than Perry ECW I'd say, but a lot more diminutive than the bulk of my Bicorne / Renegade figures. Less obvious with the mounted figures than the foot figures though.
As I've said before, I don't think Nick's sculpting for TAG is as good as his work in the larger format for Bicorne and Renegade. The mounted figures in particular have weirdly stumpy legs - not that it's too noticeable once they're stuck onto their horses.
Nor do they sit well on the horses. I have to cut / file off the rear part of the saddle every time to get the figure to sit down halfway properly on the mount. (Even then you can see a gap underneath the rider where it's not in contact with much of the saddle, which irks the hell out of me lol)
All of which griping aside, I still think these are very nice figures. I just wish he'd kept on churning them all out in the 'large 28s' format of his Bicorne and Renegade 'period' ;)
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Strange about the fit on the horses. I can only say that I've never had any similar issues with TAG riders, or at least none that I've noticed. But I don't use the TAG horses (nor the Bicorne ones for that matter). I try to mount all my riders in a unit on horses made by the same manufacturer, and select either Perry, Ebob or Calpe horses, as the mood takes me. That's just personal preference, however.
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Lovely paint jobs, the richness of your colours is amazing...every time
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Thanks Roo :)
Another update...
The trouble with buying random lots off eBay (as I've been doing recently, to bulk out my ECW collection) is that some vendors (deliberately, I suspect) take pretty ropey pictures so you can't quite see exactly what you're getting. And thus end up with a fair number of duplicates... ::)
I have therefore essayed some simple headswaps to create new, unique figures. Easy enough with ECW figures, thanks to the long hair and big collars - a little bit of Green Stuff allows making good to be the work of a minute or two...
Here we go...
First, a new unit - Sir Christopher Quarton's Veteran Greencoat Folorn Hope...
The figure in the montero actually isn't a headswap - and the old boy at ease had a serious mould line down his face so I had to rebuild his nose - decided to make him into a bit of a heavy drinker (well, it's nice to have some characters on the tabletop) lol
The other two are headswaps...
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Here's that unit with the two TAG figures recently painted for me by Baner. You can really see how diminutive the TAG figures are, compared to the big boys from Renegade... The Bicorne figures aren't quite so beefy. Strange that the same sculptor, only a few years apart, can produce figures that are the same style but totally different sizes and statures. On the tabletop, the height / stature of the figures is not that noticeable, but the differing sizes of the muskets is a bit of a giveaway... Ah well.
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Here are three New Model Army additions - these three all have headswaps (the drummer's head went onto the Greencoat sergeant, above, and a redundant pikeman's head went onto the drummer... )
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And a test colour scheme for a new pike unit in yellow coats, yet to be christened... The figure in the soft hat is a headswap...
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The new recruits together... Another parcel of rogues :)
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very nice job :-* :-* :-*
I really like the yellow guys
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Fantastic, Richard. You really are an inspiration.
It's making me want to paint instead of sitting here on my ass gazing at a monitor. :)
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I'm inspired yet again Captain 😂
Superb as always.
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they look gorgeous....have you enough to take part in a proper big battle? An invite to the shed is always open
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they look gorgeous....have you enough to take part in a proper big battle? An invite to the shed is always open
Thanks Giles :)
By the time I've finished all my latest purchases and commissions, I'll be up to 350. Not big by your standards, but by mine lol
It's going to provide a fecking big game of The Pikeman's Lament!
I'm inspired yet again Captain 😂
Superb as always.
Thanks Craig.
In amongst one of my 'hard to discern the photos' eBay purchases, were about 10 Scots figures in bonnets (all Renegade I think). No use to me, so if you want to PM me your address, I'll send them up to you - my treat. I can see you're doing The North ;)
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Crisp, clean and colourful as always :-*
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Not enough coloured jackets ;D
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Not enough coloured jackets ;D
Or stripes! :D
Lovely work Richard. A fine collection indeed. :-*
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Running out of ways to compliment your painting, but the chap with the drink problem is pure genius.
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Running out of ways to compliment your painting, but the chap with the drink problem is pure genius.
:)
+1! Love him! :-*
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Thanks Giles :)
By the time I've finished all my latest purchases and commissions, I'll be up to 350. Not big by your standards, but by mine lol
It's going to provide a fecking big game of The Pikeman's Lament!
350 is more than enough to play Pike & Shotte - on the basis you have between 12 and 30 men a unit you do have a very sizeable army
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Thanks Giles :)
By the time I've finished all my latest purchases and commissions, I'll be up to 350. Not big by your standards, but by mine lol
It's going to provide a fecking big game of The Pikeman's Lament!
Thanks Craig.
In amongst one of my 'hard to discern the photos' eBay purchases, were about 10 Scots figures in bonnets (all Renegade I think). No use to me, so if you want to PM me your address, I'll send them up to you - my treat. I can see you're doing The North ;)
. Very kind of you Richard, much appreciated.
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They look superb, Captain!
I'm sure after you add a few more Forlorn Hope chaps to your collection, you won't even notice the size of that gun.
The New Model Army fellows is a nice addition.
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Brilliant as always and some nice variations on the standard figures. When I finally get back to my ECW this thread’s going to be the paint guide (and the cause of much swearing as I fail to match it! lol)
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lol
Thanks lads :)
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all great; particularly like the greencoats. And the nose-job is fab. Really does add lovely character as you say.
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Top work again also love the nose job really makes him stand out.
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Lovely additions to your force. You could use the yellow coats as Waller's regiment if you are looking for a historical counterpart. I believe they had yellow coats.
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Thanks Gary. Good suggestion. I may well do that :)
Meanwhile...
Moving on from the head-swap brigade we come next to the ‘ringers brigade’ – ringers because these are the first six of a batch of painted figures I bought off eBay last week. All I’ve done is retouch them to add detail and definition, and rebase them.
It’s a slight risk. As previously mentioned, some eBay sellers cunningly disguise the shortcomings of their items by taking fuzzy images at the kind of distance where you can’t really see exactly what you’re getting. So I thought these looked reasonably well painted, and I knew some retouching would be required anyway. I felt this could be a quick way to further bulk out my ever-expanding ECW collection.
My winning bid was £100 for 24 figures (sorry if anyone else was in the hunt for these lol), which works out to about £4 per figure.
When you consider that a raw figure (new) costs £1.50 (£12 for a pack of 8 from Bicorne), you’re basically paying a premium of £2.50 per figure in order for someone else to have undertaken the grunt work of cleaning up mould lines, flash etc, undercoating, and then doing a (not too terrible) block colour paintjob. These are all steps that would have involved many hours work across two or three sessions. (Also, these are Renegade ECW figures, which haven’t been available for the last two years even if I’d wanted to buy them new).
As it turned out, the figures weren’t as well painted as they looked from the pics on eBay. What I suppose you’d call basic tabletop standard: a bit splodgy in places; block colours; a fair stab at a couple of layers of highlights on the white coats but not much in the way of discernible highlights apart from that; some use of washes. Overall, not great, but not too terrible either. Good enough to allow me to bring them up to a similar sort of standard to the rest of my collection in just a couple of painting sessions. Whereas if I’d been painting from scratch, I’d have needed several sessions to reach this finished stage on six figures.
All I’ve effectively done with them is add extra layers of highlight and detailing. For instance, they all had the same plain dark brown trousers – that provided a base for some tonal variation of browns in my additional highlight coats. That said, this approach does mean mostly accepting the colour scheme set by the original painter (apart from a couple of bits I specifically chose to alter – like giving them brown shoes instead of black). Because if you end up repainting them in their entirety, it kind of defeats the object of letting someone else do the groundwork. There are some slightly strange things here that I wouldn’t have chosen (Gold metalwork on rank and file? White straps and belts in the ECW?) But overall, following a modest amount of titivation they don’t look too bad. And I needed a whitecoat regiment anyway.
I now need to paint up six more pikemen from scratch to make up a full unit of 12 for TPL, as there were only six pikemen in this painted lot – all the rest were musketeers. They will get the same treatment, although some will get a change of coat colour to yellow. But this is certainly a time and labour-saving way of building out one’s forces – provided you can find the right raw material on eBay and acquire it at cost-effective price…
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So neat painting and this beautiful creamy white! Brilliant! :-*
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Bloody Beautiful. :-*
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They still have the unmistakable Captain Blood style, even if not all the work was done by Captain Blood. You could have just posted them and said nothing and we'd have been none the wiser I think.
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Lovingly titivated :)
The white belts and gold metal work do look a bit odd :?
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Nice job :-* :-* :-*
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Richard,
I think it's very brave of you to buy painted figures with this approach in mind. White belts aside, the figures look great. It would be interesting to see a photo of them when they arrived compared with how they look after your titivating. I'm afraid that I always steer clear of painted figures on Ebay, unless the paint-job is so cheap that the figures can just be stripped. I used to buy painted Citadel figures on Ebay for my Dark Ages collection and then stripped them because I thought that that might well be safer than buying unpainted versions, given how long ago they must have been cast and the risk of lead-rot.
Paul
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It would be interesting to see a photo of them when they arrived compared with how they look after your titivating.
Thanks Paul. Here are a couple of the musketeers that I haven't started refurbishing yet...
As you can see, they're not terribly painted - just a bit messy in places with very little definition. A bit of a wash, some tentative highlighting here and there, a bit shiny in places. All kind of sketchy, pallid and without much attention to detail... But a good enough base for building on.
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Compared with the refurbished pikemen...
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Not a bad base to work from at all.
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Nothing wrong with getting figures with a view to a repaint, particularly if you can paint the way that you do Richard...can see where you are coming from in terms of weighing up cost versus time spent cleaning/priming etc
Some of my early Game of Thrones figures were repaints/rebased (as stated on my thread), it made sense at the time to get some figures on a table...before I got completely hooked, and decided to invest some serious time on the painting front (obviously not with quite the same end results as yourself...mores the pity).
Unfortunately too much of the stuff I see on fleabay currently is either of poor quality or overpriced that I’d be more likely to opt for something I’d seen firsthand (obviously much more difficult right now), but those end figures look excellent, so time and money well spent
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I think you've bought very cleverly. The originals aren't bad at all, and you've improved them hugely.
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Great job refurbishing those Whitecoats, good job I didn't see them on eBay otherwise you might of had a bidding war 😂
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Thanks chaps :)
It was pot luck to be honest. I thought from the (not very clear) pictures on eBay that they were actually better painted than they turned out to be once I had them in my hand. But all’s well that ends well ;)
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As you can see, they're not terribly painted
True, but if you showed the guy what you did to his minis I'm willing to bet he'd be gob smacked.
Given you believe that your "cunning plan" is cost effective, perhaps in the future he would be willing to do a commission or two.
Anyway, they are still blood beautiful.
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Now that I seen the original brushwork I have to say, what a transformation Richard! :-* :-* :-*
I'd be tempted to repaint the white 'belts' as they almost look like they've been pipe clayed.
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Beautiful figures throughout the thread. Being firmly in the church of 15mm I am at times tempted by larger figures - I am slightly jealous of the figures available, the ability to really create individuals with character (something much harder to achieve with smaller figures). But then I bump back down to reality remembering that I have neither the talent or the patience to paint figures (I can just about get away with 15s).
Captain Blood, I doff my cap.
(I must confess that I agree with the suggestion of repainting the white straps and belts on the reincarnated figures.)
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Thanks Radar :)
Yes, fear not lads - I have already repainted the white baldrics. The bread-bags / haversacks I can rationalise as linen or similar. But blancoed leather swordbelts on 1640s infantry has proved a bridge too far for my aesthetic antennae lol
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Thanks Radar :)
Yes, fear not lads - I have already repainted the white baldrics. The bread-bags / haversacks I can rationalise as linen or similar. But blancoed leather swordbelts on 1640s infantry has proved a bridge too far for my aesthetic antennae lol
lol
Excellent decision 8)
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Yes, I think that's the right decision too, even though it means that Newcastle's Whitebelts are no more.
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Not that we doubt you, but any chance of a picture with the no longer white baldrics?
Pretty please.
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I’m just rounding out the unit with 6 new figures, painted from scratch. Once they’re done in a day or two, I’ll post pics of the whole gang sporting their leather baldrics in an assortment of attractive natural colourways ;)
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Ta.
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Looking forward to the progress photo
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Just catching up on this. What a stunning collection, I'm truly envious.
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Well I for one liked the white belts!
Very interesting to see the original ebay paint jobs. When I first saw your repaints and read what you did, I assumed they'd be unrecognisable from the originals. But you really can see how with just some clean, careful highlights they went from A to B and now fit in seamlessly with all your other work.
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Very interesting to see the original ebay paint jobs. When I first saw your repaints and read what you did, I assumed they'd be unrecognisable from the originals. But you really can see how with just some clean, careful highlights they went from A to B and now fit in seamlessly with all your other work.
Thanks Charlie. Yes, they're still in their original paint schemes for the most part - just with quite a lot of additional layering on top. Still recognisable though. I think it's not a bad short-cut to getting more figures finished.
Just catching up on this. What a stunning collection, I'm truly envious.
Cheers Steve. Next time you're down this way, we might manage a game with them ;)
Looking forward to the progress photo
Thanks Colin. Just waiting for the varnish to dry, hopefully basing materials and pics tomorrow! :)
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As promised... Here's the finished unit: Boscastle's Whitecoats.
Wait. You've never heard of the Fighting Marquess of Boscastle? Shocker...
;)
I didn't want Newcastle's - too specific.
I also recall reading somewhere, aeons ago - probably completely erroneous - suggestions that the Cornish wore white coats in the ECW. So this fictitious regiment seemed a reasonable compromise.
Besides which, I like Boscastle :D
Here are the six additional figures painted from scratch - As you can see I've followed the colour scheme set by the repaints, but have added some more splashes of red to perk them up a bit...
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In dangerously revealing close-up...
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And here they are with the six original repaints, now with their smart new leather baldrics, forming a 12 figure pike unit.
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Next up, more yellow coats...
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Splendiferous! :D
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Boscastle is an excellent choice for such a splendid array 8)
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Splendiferous! :D
Took the word right out of my mouth!
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Proper job me beauty.
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Wicked cool :D
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The natural colour sword belts looks much better :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Very nice. What you say about Cornish regiments wearing white rings some distant bells. I think I've read that somewhere.
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I have never painted or gamed this era but these Cornishmen are a tremendous advert for it! I love the color scheme and the quality of the paint job is excellent.
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Cornish regiment coat colours? Only ever seen questionable references to red and blue coats, and those references are unattributed. So paint away in what ever colour you fancy. Maybe not Kawasaki green though.
I do like a white coated regiment though, which is odd as I hate Napoleonic Austrians. Think they are just too white.
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Thanks gents :)
Very nice. What you say about Cornish regiments wearing white rings some distant bells. I think I've read that somewhere.
I’ve got this Rick Scollins painting in my head... but it was probably Newcastle’s whitecoats... something’s saying Cornwall to me though.
I do like a white coated regiment though, which is odd as I hate Napoleonic Austrians. Think they are just too white.
I know exactly what you mean lol
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Presumably 'white' during the ECW just means unbleached cloth.
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something’s saying Cornwall to me though.
Clotted cream?
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Presumably 'white' during the ECW just means unbleached cloth.
Mostly, it was cheaper than dyed cloth. There were bleaching techniques (mostly involving urine), but why add an extra cost in the production?
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Clotted cream?
Jam first 😁
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You are such a bloody heathen lol
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More marvelous stuff, Captain.
I am impressed at how many head swaps you do. Care to share your method?
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Great moi capitan. They look a little bit like craftsman in the TYW, a kind of village guard.
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Jam first 😁
So wrong😁
Nice work on the latest batch. :)
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Thanks fellows :)
I am impressed at how many head swaps you do. Care to share your method?
Honestly it's pretty easy. Using a sharp heavy blade, like a Stanley knife, cut carefully all around the neck, trying to inflict as little damage as possible on the casting. You don't need to chomp right through, which risks disfiguring either the head or the body - just slowly and carefully cut deeply enough to let you gradually wiggle the head off. You may even need to use a pair of pliers, but if you do, make sure to pad the head with a thick wrap of tissue.
Once you have a few separate heads and bodies, you can swap 'em round.
Using a very fine drill bit in a Dremel or pin-vice, drill a couple of mm up into the head (holding it VERY carefully, again in a wad of tissue) and also drill a few mm down the neck into the body. Then cut a short length of about 5mm or 6mm of steel spear / piano wire and superglue it into the neck hole in the body, leaving a couple of mm poking up.
Pop a dab of superglue onto the top of that pin, and then sit the new head firmly down onto it.
My top tip for what it's worth, as for plastic figure builds, is to avoid placing the head looking straight ahead. Poses invariably look more interesting / natural if the head is turned or tilted to one side.
Use a small amount of Green Stuff to make good any join that doesn't look too neat. (Easily done for this period as you can conceal a great deal with long hair and / or a big floppy collar! Minimal sculpting skills required :))
Hope that's helpful.
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Once again, inspiring work Richard. I'm currently lobbying the Greenwich meantime society to increase the hours in a day to 36, just to scrape into my lead pile. It's all your fault 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Amazing paint jobs...
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I'd just like to add onto what Richard has said re: using a Dremel.
If you use one to drill holes for heads to pop into then buy a pair of Kevlar gloves just in case. They can be expensive but after severing the end of my thumb one time I see them as a very sound investment now!
As a gory aside, the cut was so bad that they had to to cauterize the end of my thumb with a chemical burn. I think it was Silver Nitrate that they applied and whether it was the chemical burn itself or the application of said chemical to the nerve endings at the tip of my thumb- it was the highest degree of pain I have ever felt in my life! :'(
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Another tip for drilling small awkward shaped objects is 'hold' it in blutack. A big blob of blutack can also stick it to a cutting mat (you're still going to have to push down on the blutack wrapped package though). The blutack stops everything moving around, provides a buffer between sharp object and flesh. Simple, cheap solution.
I do 15mm headswaps, if I'm doing a lot, just holding onto angular metal figures is hard on the fingers, wrapping in blutack takes away all the pain.
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That’s a great tip, thanks Radar :)
And I’ll be avoiding the silver nitrate :o ;)
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Thanks fellows :)
Honestly it's pretty easy. ...Hope that's helpful.
Yes it is: Thanks Captain!
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Well, here's a treat. (For you - but especially for me :D)
I've just received three units painted for me by the very brilliant Shaun Watson, AKA Redzed.
Here's the first unit I've based up and added a handmade flag to: Quarton's Greencoat Pike.
Having indiscriminately hoovered up around 100+ assorted additional Bicorne / Renegade ECW figures off eBay over the past few months, I knew I'd run out of steam and enthusiasm way before I managed to paint them all. So I asked Shaun if he'd take some on for me. Luckily he did, because I love his painting.
As I'm sure you'll have seen from his work shown here and elsewhere over many years, Shaun is a true artist with a bold, high contrast style. His faces are absolutely legendary - every one is like a miniature old master you might glimpse in the National Portrait Gallery. His technique with wet blending and his skill with colours are incredible. So I'm happy as Larry to add some more Redzed art to my ECW collection :)
So, to recap: Figures awesomely painted by Redzed. Basing and flag by yours truly :)
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The faces... 8)
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He's a clever bugger :)
Next up, my first yellow coat unit almost complete and coming soon.
By which time I may have also based up the other two new units by Redzed to show you.
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Amazing paintjob and the sculpts are outstanding, too!!!
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Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
lol
They look great 8)
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Wonderful :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Cracking job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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I wish redzed would move to Canada... :'(
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The armies are massing. Looks like there is going to be a war!
One day you are going to put all these amazing minis on a table and fight it out. Can't wait for the photos!
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Gotta agree on the RedZed magic, very nicely done.
Now go away and stop tempting me! :)
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Wonderful work. 8)
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Lovely PJs by Shaun
8)
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Normally when you enlarge photos of figures you start to see the imperfections in the painting, with these you just see more and more glorious detail.
They are wonderful :o
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One day you are going to put all these amazing minis on a table and fight it out. Can't wait for the photos!
Fear not - it’s coming :)
Just got about 24 more figures to paint, and finish basing around another 32, then I’m officially DONE.
Well, for the time being anyway.
Then I’ll shoot some pics of the entire array. If I can fit them all onto a table lol
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How many will it be?
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Lovely painting. The style will complement your own pretty well.
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Thanks chaps.
How many will it be?
I actually haven’t counted properly, but I think it’s going to round out at about 350 figures :)
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Gosh, that’ll weigh some! :o
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It'll need some storage space too.
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A mere bagatelle compared to some people’s old school Napoleonic lead collections of thousands ;)
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The latest additions look beautiful - as do all the others. With 350 figures you just need some movement trays and you are good to go for a big game of Pike & Shotte
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I have movement trays. Although I think I may need to make up a few more lol
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If the bases are on 25mm discs I might have a load to sell soon - about to rebase my crusader army. At present they are just sand and paint
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they are a mix of sizes
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Absolutely beautiful work. Sublime! :-* :-* :-*
Jam first 😁
This though, I have to take exception with!
Cream on first, brothers!
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Explains it with my Cornish background. lol
Absolutely beautiful work. Sublime! :-* :-* :-*
This though, I have to take exception with!
Cream on first, brothers!
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Brilliant thread as ever Richard, as far as the scone debate goes I prefer Welsh cakes lol
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OMG :o :o :o :o no that picture is all wrong. o_o o_o o_o Cornwall's way is the correct way! :-* :-* :-* :-*
Absolutely beautiful work. Sublime! :-* :-* :-*
This though, I have to take exception with!
Cream on first, brothers!
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OMG :o :o :o :o no that picture is all wrong. o_o o_o o_o Cornwall's way is the correct way! :-* :-* :-* :-*
The Devon way is the only logical way! The clotted cream is so thick that you spread it on the scone with a knife and a spoonful of jam is dropped on top. If you try to spread the cream on top of the jam it just makes a right bloody mess.
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The Devon way is the only logical way! The clotted cream is so thick that you spread it on the scone with a knife and a spoonful of jam is dropped on top. If you try to spread the cream on top of the jam it just makes a right bloody mess.
lol
Okay, please let’s not do this here (but you’re wrong, Robert - the jam forms an adhesive layer that coats the scone and provides a base for a heaped mountain of clotted cream. Cornwall forever!!! ;))
I’d better post some more figures quickly, before this becomes the official LAF cream tea debate thread.
(The one topic guaranteed to become more contentious than the LAF GW discussion thread... ;))
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Moving on from cream teas... ;)
Here's the latest addition - more eBay scrapings hot off the painting desk: Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats.
I liked Gary's suggestion of Sir William Waller's regiment, but then I came across his cousin, Sir Hardress Waller, which is, well, just a more interesting name. Plus Sir Hardress lived at Groombridge Place, which is not that far from me and I happen to know quite well. (It's where 'The Draughtsman's Contract' was filmed).
I did toy with 'Sir Joseph Maplin's Yellowcoats' (for those of a certain age) but decided against it ;)
This is currently a mixed pike and shot unit, but I have the same number to paint again, which will give me two units, one pike, one shot.
They're all Bicorne and Renegade figures, sculpted by Nick Collier, with (I think) the exception of the drummer boy which is (I think) an Alan Marsh sculpt. I've been quite sniffy about the Marsh sculpts as opposed to the generally brilliant Collier sculpts for Bicorne, but I must say, I quite like this one. He's a strange figure though, because as far as I can tell, he doesn't appear anywhere in the Bicorne ECW catalogue / online store. But it's definitely a Bicorne figure. Bit of a mystery...
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Nice and bright :D
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More great work Captain!
It has been interesting watching the correlation between the growth of this thread and the sudden rise in the price of Renegade ECW figures on eBay! lol
Maybe that drummer is from one of the selection of Bicorne command groups? The drummers can't be seen in all of them as they are in the back row.
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They look superb. Sir Joseph Maplin would have made a marvellous commanding officer! Perhaps Geoffrey Fairbrother could have been his 1st Captain? ;)
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They certainly cut the mustard. Excellent. :-*
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Lovely painting.
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Top drawer (and I bet they are in said top drawer) :-* :-* :-*
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It has been interesting watching the correlation between the growth of this thread and the sudden rise in the price of Renegade ECW figures on eBay! lol
I noticed that as well lol
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Thanks all :)
More great work Captain!
It has been interesting watching the correlation between the growth of this thread and the sudden rise in the price of Renegade ECW figures on eBay! lol
Maybe that drummer is from one of the selection of Bicorne command groups? The drummers can't be seen in all of them as they are in the back row.
lol
Not sure about that correlation, but you might be right :)
I've bought rather a lot off eBay myself over the past several months, although managed to get pretty good prices on most lots. (I've stopped now - enough is enough!)
The drummer is a mystery. I'm pretty sure the drummer figures lurking in the back row of the pics of the 'later' Bicorne ECW command packs are all variants of the figure with the drum slung on his back.
There is a drummer figure very similar to this one in the Scottish command pack - but in bonnet etc.
But this actual figure I can't see anywhere in the range. Weird. Perhaps he was never released but managed to get out there nonetheless. It does happen.
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That is very lovely work there Captain!
Though I won't get involved in the Scone Wars (lived in Devon for a while, had to keep quiet about my Cornish sympathies), I for one can't help feeling that Sir Joseph Maplin should have been involved somewhere. Maybe he sold Sir Hardress the yellow coats.
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The drummer is a mystery. I'm pretty sure the drummer figures lurking in the back row of the pics of the 'later' Bicorne ECW command packs are all variants of the figure with the drum slung on his back.
There is a drummer figure very similar to this one in the Scottish command pack - but in bonnet etc.
But this actual figure I can't see anywhere in the range. Weird. Perhaps he was never released but managed to get out there nonetheless. It does happen.
I may have a solution to the mystery.
My recent purchase of BIC-ECW016 - Foot Command (Mixed headgear) came with two drummers, one of whom is a dead ringer for yours. That said - and as you’ll note from the photo - I’ve already reallocated his head elsewhere. It was definitely a floppy hat head, though I can’t remember which mini I’ve attached it to so cannot be 100% certain that it was exactly the same pose.
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Thanks :)
I may have a solution to the mystery.
My recent purchase of BIC-ECW016 - Foot Command (Mixed headgear) came with two drummers, one of whom is a dead ringer for yours. That said - and as you’ll note from the photo - I’ve already reallocated his head elsewhere. It was definitely a floppy hat head, though I can’t remember which mini I’ve attached it to so cannot be 100% certain that it was exactly the same pose.
Even weirder. That’s one of the original six figure command packs sculpted by Nick Collier, and already includes that slightly goofy drummer boy in the montero. Can’t see why they would bung in an extra drummer sculpted by someone different- and he’s not shown in the pack photos... odds bodkins!
Thanks anyway Steve :)
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Actually, there's not much of a mystery there, Richard : the original Nick Collier command sets contained six miniatures until the Bicorne owners decided to standardise their foot packs. This means the command packs had to be brought up to eight figures to match the price tag of the rank and file packets. So two non-Collier figures were added to the original four command sets and boy, can you tell the extra figures are by a different hand...
I recently bought a couple of ECW19 packs to add a bit of variety to my TAG TYW battalia command and here are the two miniatures in the set that weren't sculpted by Nick (the standard bearer is not too bad, if a bit too chunky for my taste, but the non-Collier drummer is dreadful, with a completely wrong anatomy and a compressed upper body - his crotch is located where his navel should be) :
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I've seen similar anatomical problems with other Bicorne foot figures - too long in the leg, too short in the body. These figures are in what I suspect are later packs - so probably they weren't sculpted by Nick either.
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Arthur, merci beaucoup mon brave - you have solved the conundrum.
Pity they haven’t updated their website accordingly ::)
Nor have they used the pretty pictures of a few of their packs I sent them (although they did say thank you).
I do wonder about some miniatures manufacturers, really... when it comes to showcasing their products on their websites, some of them seem clueless. Still, that’s their lookout I guess.
Actually I quite like that officer / standard bearer. Ah well...
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Arthur, merci beaucoup mon brave - you have solved the conundrum.
Pity they haven’t updated their website accordingly ::)
Yeah, it can be very confusing particularly as the pop up images are so small. :-[ It's always reassuring to know what you are buying.
Nor have they used the pretty pictures of a few of their packs I sent them (although they did say thank you).
I do wonder about some miniatures manufacturers, really... when it comes to showcasing their products on their websites, some of them seem clueless. Still, that’s their lookout I guess.
That does surprise me. Free exquisitely painted advertising ??? ??? ???
If were were running a mini company I'd jump at the chance. The TAG award scheme is an idea that other companies could adopt. It's a great way of both awarding customers and showing off ones products to boot.
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Yes, the TAG scheme is great - although I do worry for Pete's balance sheet. I have about 50 quid's worth of credits waiting to be used up lol
Meanwhile, here's an interesting thing one doesn't usually get the opportunity to see, so thought I would share.
Although I've tried to avoid too many duplicates in my ECW collection, by the time you get to 350 figures, particularly when hoovering up odd lots indiscriminately off eBay, you do end up with a few.
Here's a Renegade officer, which I now have three examples of - interestingly one painted by me (left), one by Redzed (centre), and one by Baner (right). The first two have just been painted. Baner's version was done about 10 years ago.
Comparisons are odious and I am emphatically NOT looking for 'that one's better than that one' type comments.
Just thought it was an unusual opportunity to see exactly the same figure painted by three different painters side by side. Interesting to note the small variations in techniques, blending, colour choices, treatment of different textures, etc.
Overall though, they work pretty well together :)
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They're all lovely.
They will work just fine together as they are all layered. Different styles but hey, that's not a bad thing at all.
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Arthur, merci beaucoup mon brave - you have solved the conundrum.
Pity they haven’t updated their website accordingly ::)
Nor have they used the pretty pictures of a few of their packs I sent them (although they did say thank you).
I do wonder about some miniatures manufacturers, really... when it comes to showcasing their products on their websites, some of them seem clueless. Still, that’s their lookout I guess.
I'd chalk down the absence of better pictures to a lack of time, as the day to day routine of running a company keeps interfering with grand plans of a complete site overhaul. Taking better photographs of a full range is a time-consuming process and as a result probably one of those continually postponed "we'll get around to that eventually " plans, which means the older pics inherited from the previous owners keep being used on the website. .
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That's a great picture Captain. Where the differing style really shows up for me is the treatment of the faces; less obvious in the painting of the cloth, belts, etc.
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Lush :-*
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You've done exquisit work with the skin tones, Richard. Really.
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Love the orange coats.
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Although I've tried to avoid too many duplicates in my ECW collection, by the time you get to 350 figures, particularly when hoovering up odd lots indiscriminately off eBay, you do end up with a few.
Here's a Renegade officer, which I now have three examples of
Although I only own just over half of the number of your Renegade/Bicorne ECW collection I also have three of that Renegade command figure and also three of what I presume is the Sergeant figure in the Montero mainly from a couple of eBay lots I've picked up myself over the years. There was originally only one command pack you could get from Renegade iirc although they did bring another out later that I don't think was by Mr Collier featuring some nice figures but alas it seems to be as rare as the proverbial Hens teeth on eBay!
I'm Really enjoying the showcasing of your wonderful collection of ECW miniatures. Are we going to be seeing your Cavalry soon?
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Thanks :)
I think I’ve shown all the cavalry somewhere before, and there are a few units of horse higher up this thread.
But in a few weeks’ time once I’ve finished the collection (for now!) I’ll photograph and post the whole lot!
Yes, that distinctive Renegade sergeant in the montero is ubiquitous. He’s turned up in every one of five or six lots I’ve bought off eBay over the past few months, usually in multiples. I bought one job lot of 40 figures, and there were four of the bloody things in there! Not my favourite figure within the Renegade and Bicorne ranges to be honest, and evidently others feel the same way to judge by the frequency with which that miniature is offloaded via eBay ;)
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Interesting to see three different excellent interpretations of the same figure.
ECW is one period I’ve never tried...can’t think of a reason why :?
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A good time to start then Matt.
Once you’ve finished a few hundred more Game of Thrones figures, obvs lol
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Here's the second of three units recently painted for me by the brilliant Redzed, now based by me: Caleb Brewer's Storming Party - an aggressive folorn hope, first to the breach.
Redzed's a miracle worker. Look at the depth of that red :-*
And the uber-flat mattness of them...
And the faces of course...
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This is essentially the Bicorne dragoon command pack (minus the drummer who joined Quarton's Greencoats instead - see somewhere higher up this thread), plus a couple of other figures added to form the storming party. The sergeant with the halberd has had a Front Rank head swapped onto him, 'cos I am frankly sick of that guy in the montero ::) ;)
These boys look so good, I thought they deserved a little vignette set-up too :)
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Wonderful!
I’ve also used the dismounted dragoons for Forlorn Hope. It’s a shame that Bicorne don’t otherwise have a pack of suitably mixed poses.
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Fantastic! Great figures and I love the vignette photos. From this angle in the first picture it looks like the sergeant with the halberd is knocking- very polite of him to give them an opportunity to surrender civilly :D
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Cracking job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Nice to see your old redoubt getting an airing :-* :-* :-*
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Redzed's job is of top drawer! And your photo staging is super! :-*
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Wicked cool :D
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That barbican is quite lovely in itself.
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These are wonderful and the scene-setting is inspirational. Great stuff!
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A good time to start then Matt.
Once you’ve finished a few hundred more Game of Thrones figures, obvs lol
Like you said, maybe just a few hundred more Game of Thrones, and then who knows? lol
That’s a beautiful looking redoubt - scratchbuilt?
Great work by Shaun on the latest additions as well....if I ever win the lottery* I’d get him to paint me a bunch of ECW.
*not because he is pricey (actually I think his rates are v.reasonable) but rather I’d want him to do a whole army :-*
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Absolutely lovely storming party, as you say the red of their coats is bang-on. Some really excellent photos too, everything looks so good! :-* :-*
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:-* diorama photos are marvellous
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Thanks lads :)
Nice to see your old redoubt getting an airing :-* :-* :-*
Thanks Colin.
Yep, shockingly it's almost 12 years since I made it and I think it's only seen action once lol
Some 12 year old pics here https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=7780.15 (still with the same figures defending it lol)
That’s a beautiful looking redoubt - scratchbuilt?
Cheers Matt.
Indeed. The three part 'making of' threads are below, in case anyone is interested :)
Part 1: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=7777.0
Part 2: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=7778.0 )
Part 3: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=7779.msg86883#msg86883
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The three part 'making of' threads are below, in case anyone is interested :)
Excellent, going to get a cold drink of something and work my way through the 3-parter, thanks again for the links.
:)
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Astounding work, sir.
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Jolly Nice
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Really great set piece pictures 8) :D
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Thanks chaps. More to come shortly. When the heat abates enough for me to be able to sit and paint. At the moment, even the wet palette is witnessing paint drying out within a few minutes ::)
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Thanks chaps. More to come shortly. When the heat abates enough for me to be able to sit and paint. At the moment, even the wet palette is witnessing paint drying out within a few minutes ::)
It's a cooler day today- at least up North..... having said that, it usually is ;) :)
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My wife used to tease me that it was always snowing in Northumberland. Then we went on a long walk around Alnwick Great Park one May, and we'd just got back to the car when .....it started to snow.... She still reminds me of that and of the time we went to Housesteads and looked around the fort in a blizzard. Unsurprisingly, we were the only ones silly enough to be there.
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My second unit of yellow coat foot seem to be taking an age to complete ::)
Strange, isn't it, how some units you can breeze through in a few sessions over a day or three. Others seem to present an interminable painting slog? Can't understand it.
Anyway, once they're done, I just need to finish basing my third newly arrived Redzed pike unit, paint just more 12 white coat musketeers, and then I am DONE.
Meanwhile, my painting brain / eyes needed a change of scene, so I took a session out to quickly paint up a couple of lovely wagons I've had sitting in the lead pile for fecking years...
The smaller wagon (and its load) is by Boot Hill Miniatures, sculpted by LAF member, Duhamel.
Snr. Malamute kindly gave me this piece about 10 years ago. Finally it is done!
The larger farm wagon is another lovely piece, this one from Lead Adventure Miniatures.
Alex / the Prof kindly donated it to me about seven years ago (I think it was an LPL prize, sponsored by a mystery benefactor). So thank you, whoever that was - that's now done too.
I thought they would make a nice addition to my ECW setting, as well as serving for many other genres. You can never have too many wagons. Now I want more! lol
(I think I have to get the ECW beer cart from Empress at the very least ;))
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With a few figures, for scale...
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Details details...
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EDIT: Should have said, I substituted the solid timber wheels that come with the Boot Hill cart for a pair of plastic GW wheels. Bit more versatile for later periods like that I think...
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Very nicely done :)
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Very cool :-* :-* :-*
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Beautifully painted.
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Delightful
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Lovely looking wagons :)
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Wheely good
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Wheely good
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You’re on a roll....
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You shuuld do a You tube video on your painting techniques..incredible depth.
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Hand me down that can of beans"..Nice
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Sublime Richard, you can turn a boring wood item on wheels to a work of Art 😂😂😂
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Nice work, as is only to be expected really.
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Thank you gentlemen :)
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I've now finished basing the third of the units Redzed painted for me: Sir Pewsey Gallivant's orange-tawny regt. of pike...
Another stellar paint job from Shaun.
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The obligatory close-up on those famous Redzed faces... :)
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And to celebrate their passing into the army, all three Redzed-painted units pictured on the tabletop, with the folorn hopers scampering amongst the two pike units...
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Sweet photos.
Love this thread.
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They'll fit really well with your existing troops. They look great. :-*
Like how you snuck those wagons into the photos. ::) ;)
They too will be nice atmospheric additions to your table top, as can be seen.
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Superb minis and supeeerber photos!
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Cracking job Richard :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Liking the bridge as well, great model
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That is a table I'm sure lots of us lust after.
I know I do.
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Outstanding sir!!
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Loving the photos - especially the scenic shots :-*
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Wonderful work!!!!! :o
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Beautiful setup and figures
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the bee's knees. Sumptuous.
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Thanks fellas :)
Cracking job Richard :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Liking the bridge as well, great model
Cheers Colin. It's the Forgeworld timber bridge, long OOP, that I bought from Dean about 10 years ago! It sat in its box for a decade, until I finally thought a few months ago that it would make a good centrepiece for an ECW battlefield - and indeed several others for that matter. So there it is, done, painted, and mounted on its own section of river - at last lol
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Simply lovely!
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You're a first class swine Richard, just as I try and wean myself off the ECW you put more of these lush photos on here. Damm you. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Quit inspiring me to switch projects!
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Zoiks!!! :o :o :o
That is one amazing set up Richard 8)
I dare say it's right up there with some of the very fine display games one sees at Salute and Partizan. And it's your home set up!! :'(
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Absolutely fantastic thread. Brilliant painting and scenics.
Really inspiring me to get back into my first wargaming love ECW.
I've bought a few packs of the Empress figures and love the detail and crispness of the casting,and their equipment/artillery packs are superb.
Does anyone have any opinions on how they compare with Renegade minis,and if Paul from Empress is reading,are there any plans to start producing Scots Covenanters and Highlanders/Irish any time soon?
Thanks,
Andy
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Absolutely fantastic thread. Brilliant painting and scenics.
Really inspiring me to get back into my first wargaming love ECW.
I've bought a few packs of the Empress figures and love the detail and crispness of the casting,and their equipment/artillery packs are superb.
Does anyone have any opinions on how they compare with Renegade minis,and if Paul from Empress is reading,are there any plans to start producing Scots Covenanters and Highlanders/Irish any time soon?
Thanks,
Andy
Thanks Andy. Glad you like them :)
ECW was my first wargaming love too. First metal wargames figures I ever bought were three Hinchliffe ECW musketeers, an officer and a drummer, circa 1974! I have built and sold at least two large ECW collections in the intervening decades (one in 15mm). This is my third! (And I'm keeping it!)
Size wise, the Empress ECW figures are around the same height as the Renegade / Bicorne ECW ranges, although slimmer in stature. The style is rather different however. The posing of the Empress figures is a little more static, and the detail in the style of sculpting is quite shallow. Personally I found them difficult to get on with, and with a quite different look to my existing Renegade and Bicorne figures. But some people are less fussy than me about such things. Which is fair enough.
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Thanks Andy. Glad you like them :)
ECW was my first wargaming love too. First metal wargames figures I ever bought were three Hinchliffe ECW musketeers, an officer and a drummer, circa 1974! I have built and sold at least two large ECW collections in the intervening decades (one in 15mm). This is my third! (And I'm keeping it!)
Size wise, the Empress ECW figures are around the same height as the Renegade / Bicorne ECW ranges, although slimmer in stature. The style is rather different however. The posing of the Empress figures is a little more static, and the detail in the style of sculpting is quite shallow. Personally I found them difficult to get on with, and with a quite different look to my existing Renegade and Bicorne figures. But some people are less fussy than me about such things. Which is fair enough.
My first ECW armies were 15mm Peter Laing figures. Bought and repainted depending on what armies were required over 35 years ago,in the halcyon days before I discovered girls and the only things that mattered were "playing with toy soldiers",and cricket!!
I'm going to purchase some Renegade figures,get them painted and see if I can mix them with the Empress figures.
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Cheers,
Andy
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My first ECW armies were 15mm Peter Laing figures. Bought and repainted depending on what armies were required over 35 years ago,in the halcyon days before I discovered girls and the only things that mattered were "playing with toy soldiers",and cricket!!
I'm going to purchase some Renegade figures,get them painted and see if I can mix them with the Empress figures.
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Cheers,
And
Just as an aside my first ever 25/28mm wargames figures were Hinchcliffe
I saved up for about 6 months,in 1979, and then went to their factory shop in Meltham with my father and bought 100 Muscovite streltsy.
They cost £17,and I haven't the slightest idea what happened to them!!
Andy
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Just as an aside my first ever 25/28mm wargames figures were Hinchcliffe
My first 25mm army was Hinchcliffe Romans.
Not to derail the thread...
Damn Richard, that is a beautiful set-up of terrain and miniatures you got there! :-*
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Thanks chaps :)
My first ECW armies were 15mm Peter Laing figures. Bought and repainted depending on what armies were required over 35 years ago,in the halcyon days before I discovered girls and the only things that mattered were "playing with toy soldiers",and cricket!!
I'm going to purchase some Renegade figures,get them painted and see if I can mix them with the Empress figures.
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Cheers,
Andy
Ah yes, I had a Peter Laing Norman army at around the same time. They were pretty crude little figures in retrospect, but had a certain naive charm. They were also tiny as I recall. 'True' 15mm. Probably closer to what passes for 10mm - 12mm today.
You may have some difficulty getting hold of Renegade figures, Andy, since that business has gone into one of its periodic shutdowns over the last couple of years. Will they ever be back? Who knows. It's not the first time they have suspended trading for an extended period. A strange way of carrying on, but there you go... I guess people have other things they need to do in their lives at certain times...
There is a fairly regular supply of Renegade ECW figures flowing through eBay, including from one seller who seems to be working his way through a large stock, 16 figures at a time. He's shifted a good couple of hundred figures this way over the last few months, but the hammer prices swing about widely. I bought a couple of his lots early on at £11 or £12 each (for 16 figures). Since then, I've seen similar lots reach almost £40 :o
Rarity value now, I guess.
It may be better to buy painted lots which come up every so often, and repaint them. Sometimes, if the painting is sufficiently awful, they're not that expensive.
The Bicorne Miniatures ECW range is still very much available.
Worth checking out this thread, however, for a few words of warning on that: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=76749.30
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Oooops!! Sorry,I meant Bicorne!!
Andy
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:)
They're all much of a muchness TBH.
And here, penultimately, is the second batch of Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats... Mainly Renegade with a few Bicorne figures in there.
These are all odds and sods from various eBay lots. I have titivated them here and there with extra feather plumes, sashes etc. from Green Stuff, and remodelled the hat of the standard bearer completely. Just for a bit of variety, you know :)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820141557-479852476.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820141557-479932268.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820141558-479952334.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820141558-479942038.jpeg)
And here brigaded with the first batch of yellowcoats...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820141558-479962036.jpeg)
The pike unit...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820142136-47997420.jpeg)
The musketeers...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820142136-479991815.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/577-270820142136-479981206.jpeg)
The dangerously revealing close ups... lol
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-270820142137-48001214.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-270820142137-48000762.jpeg)
Et sur le table... The now obligatory scenic shot :D
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-270820142406-480021973.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-270820142406-480032466.jpeg)
Only the Marquess of Boscastle's whitecoat musketeers left to go! ;D
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Lovely lovely :D
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Yellowcoats! Hi-de-Hi!
Did Peggy ever achieve her dream of becoming one?
Hehe, ignore me. Super-lovely stuff there, Richard. Anything else from you just wouldn't be right.
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They look really great, especially in such a very English environment 8)
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Really fantastic, such character in each model. 8)
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Everything just gets better and better
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I have titivated them here and there...
Wow!
That titivated me! :-*
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You are getting very good at this little bits of green stuff work, it won't be long until you start producing whole figures
Still waiting on a group shot of all your ECW figures together
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Magnificent! :-*
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Perfect paintjob! And we all know how difficult it is to achieve a good yellow... But here, shading is perfect also!
As for the photo-staged pictures, they are real eye candies! Cheers!
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Very nice. I particularly like the way you've painted some of the figures as older men - with grey in their hair and facial hair.
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Thanks chaps :)
You are getting very good at this little bits of green stuff work, it won't be long until you start producing whole figures
Thanks Colin. Funny you should say that. Give it time... ;)
Still waiting on a group shot of all your ECW figures together
Certainly. Once I've finished the last unit of whitecoats, I'll set up and shoot the whole blimmin' lot. (That will be a lot of pictures lol)
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Excellent work. Those scenic shots are especially nice.
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Thanks Steve :)
I have actually found a couple more figures I need to paint as well as the last unit of whitecoats, so the final full monty view of the whole lot will still be a little while coming ::)
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I have actually found a couple more figures I need to paint as well as the last unit of whitecoats, so the final full monty view of the whole lot will still be a little while coming ::)
Can’t wait....we need plenty of gratuitous shots of your terrain as well ;)
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And finally...
After a short diversion to the North West Frontier via the Wars of the Roses, I've popped back to the C17th to finish off my final ECW unit - Boscastle's whitecoat musketeers.
Four of these are newly painted from scratch, including the officers. The other eight are retreads of a large batch of painted figures I bought off eBay with a view to a bit of light touching up (ooer).
This cunning plan didn't really work out awfully well, as - apart from their white coats and bread bags - I had to pretty much repaint / overpaint everything else on them anyway, so it wasn't that much of a time-saver in the end.
They're also a bit of a lumpen bunch, which is why I left them to last. One or two of these are amongst my least favourite figures from the entire vast Renegade / Bicorne ECW oeuvre. Several of the others are duplicates of figures I've already got multiples of spread through other regiments. So all in all, not really my favourite unit, although they've turned out alright.
Plus I've now pretty much run out of steam on this project for the time being, although I've still got a couple of character figures to go ::)
Anyway, it's currently standing at almost 400 figures... Should make for a sizeable game of The Pikeman's Lament lol
As promised, I'll now get the whole lot onto one groaning tabletop and shoot pics of everything together :)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-210920201237-48227865.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-210920201237-482261604.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-210920201237-482252019.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-210920201236-482231417.jpeg)
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Neatly painted, nice shading and I like this creamy white!
Eager to see your armies in full deployment! Cheers!
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Cracking job
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Wicked cool :D
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Excellent- can’t wait to see the group shots
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Really superb, like every other unit in this gorgeous project :-*
Looking forward to the army shots.
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Very, very nice! Looking forward to the army parade :D
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I think your collection grew to a medium Army. Now Pikements Lament is becoming to small for your army. lol
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Another lovely unit, and congratulations on (almost) finishing your project. Sad news for us though, as it means no new updates.
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well, they look fantastic to me.
looking forward to the all-together pics.
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I think you're wrong to be negative about them. They look excellent to me - although that's probably because of all the work you've had to put into them.
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Lovely work Richard. Wow! 400 miniatures, that's quite a collection, well done.
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my final ECW unit
:'(
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Maybe not your favorite figs by the time you reached this unit but you can't tell thanks to the effort you put into them. A great looking unit in my opinion. Looking forward to the overly laden table shots.
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Thanks everybody. Very much appreciate your comments and support :)
It’s been a journey. There may be another (surprising) stage in due course, so keep watching this space.
Meanwhile, main photography is underway lol
Many pics to come, hopefully in the next day or two.
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looking great...cant wait for the photos
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:-* Awesome work Richard, what colour did you use for the buff coats?
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:-* Awesome work Richard, what colour did you use for the buff coats?
Thanks Chris.
It’s AK Interactive ‘Tan/Global Light Shade’ - which is a strange name for a paint. I don’t know what the global bit means lol
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Cheers Richard 8)
Everything's global nowadays, it's the new "vibrant" lol
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Excellent work 👍
The AK Interactive paints seem to be very Matt - just used the WWI British triad - and they do not appear to completely absorb the next shade like the Scale 75 paints do.
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Nice additions to the army! :-*
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Thanks guys. Very grateful for all the supportive comments along the road which has brought me, finally, to this point.
As long threatened, here are some pics of the whole bally lot plonked onto the tabletop!
To be clear, this isn’t a wargame in progress – I’ve just shamelessly deployed the collection onto the table for the eye candy :)
The figures are 90% Bicorne and Renegade ECW, with about 10% TAG. There’s a smattering of figures from Redoubt, Warlord, North Star, and Brigade amongst the supernumeraries.
60% of these figures are painted by yours truly, 25% by Baner, and 15% by Redzed. All the basing and flags by me.
About 60% of these figures were painted 10 years ago, the rest over the past six months – hence the resurrection in the title!
They’re all now organised into units of six or 12 for The Pikeman’s Lament, although I've amalgamated many of these smaller units for the purposes of cramming everything onto the board for these pics!
That’s 387 figures, 114 horses, six artillery pieces, and two wagons :o
(Mere peanuts by big battle Napoleonic collection standards, I appreciate. But quite a lot for little ol’ me lol)
There’s a pretty equal split between Royalist and Parliamentarian, although a fair few units could be used on either side as the need arises.
The base boards are my own.
The luxurious hedges by the excellent Debris of War.
The K&M trees must be 40 years old - they have served me well!
The village buildings (just received!) are scratchbuilt by the even more excellent Oshiromodelterrain - except for the church which was scratchbuilt by Silent Invader.
The town buildings are by an assortment of about 10 different manufacturers, several of whom are no longer in existence.
Anyway, here goes…
A general view of the table from one end… The Royalists are defending the town. Parliament is advancing through the outlying farms and fields.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125137-482841213.jpeg)
And from the other end…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125137-482831456.jpeg)
By accident and some (partly subconscious) design, the Royalist forces are all blues, greens, white and pinks. The Parliamentarians all in reds, browns, yellows and orange. Just the way its panned out.
First of all, it’s important to set the mood with a few props, n'est ce pas?
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125136-482822457.jpeg)
Behind the Parliamentarian lines…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125033-482811771.jpeg)
On the Parliamentarian left flank, Sir Melville Gibson’s shot, Lilburne’s Folorn Hope, and a frame gun start probing forward…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125033-482801624.jpeg)
Lilburne’s shot form up in the lane, while Rainsborough’s shot wait to follow up into the line…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125033-482791698.jpeg)
Never mind the impending battle. Still time for a chat with a local about the season’s honey yield…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125033-482782364.jpeg)
Next along the line, Sir Hardress Waller’s yellowcoat pike and shot…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920125032-4827748.jpeg)
A slight contretemps between a ranter and a local clubman… His wife legs it...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124850-48276347.jpeg)
Behind Waller’s regiment lurks Debden’s Troop of longcoat horse – a shifty crew of moss troopers and ne-er-do-wells…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124850-482752378.jpeg)
Here you are, I’ve moved them round for a better view…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124850-482742383.jpeg)
Next, forming the iron fist in the Parliamentarian centre, the massed ranks of Ironside horse, backed up by Okey’s dragoons…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124850-482731866.jpeg)
Cromwell exhorts his troopers…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124849-48272674.jpeg)
Lurking by the midden heap, Caleb Brewer’s storming party probes towards the centre of the Royalist lines…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124634-482712191.jpeg)
Thomas Sheffield’s Horse and Sir Robert Pye’s Horse move up, urged on by a God-fearing preacher…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124634-482701235.jpeg)
Nathaniel Crowe’s regiment of shot move up between Parliamentarian guns… A falconet and a saker.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124634-482692283.jpeg)
On the Parliamentarian right, Sir Pewsey Gallivant’s orange-tawny regiment of pike and shot, and more of Sir Melville Gibson’s trained band, scampering amongst the cottages…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124634-482681321.jpeg)
A look back along the Parliamentarian line…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124634-48267866.jpeg)
Over to the other side…
On the extreme right of the Royalist line, Sir Ralph Hopton’s ‘blew’ regiment of horse, and his dragoons...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124443-48266432.jpeg)
Behind them, Sir Lancelot’s Crawley’s ragbag troops of horse and dragoons, including a couple of stray lancers lol
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124443-48265554.jpeg)
To the left of Hopton’s position, Sir Richard Astley’s bluecoat pike and shot. (Never gonna give you up… )
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124443-48264148.jpeg)
Next to Astley's Bluecoats, two units of Sir Lucius Spoons’ Greencoat regiment of shot, and a frame gun overseen by a portly preening peacock…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124442-48263343.jpeg)
In front of Spoons’ men, we find Sir Christopher Quarton’s Greencoat pike and his veteran folorn hope…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124442-482622350.jpeg)
Which takes us to the centre of the Royalist line… Where the Royalist ladies watch confidently from the safety of the town as the scurrilous Parliamentarians probe forward…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124255-482611446.jpeg)
Coming at it from the other end now…
The view along the Royalist line from their cavalry-heavy left wing…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124255-48260811.jpeg)
On the extreme left: Prince Rupert and his lifeguard of horse, and next to them, the dashing Lady Lucinda Knightley, her otterhound, and her purple-coated troop of horse…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124255-482591198.jpeg)
Then two units of Sir George Prettie’s lobsters…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124254-482581835.jpeg)
And in support of them, Sir Marmaduke Fondling’s pinkcoat horse and dragoons…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920124254-482572398.jpeg)
Beside them, two units of Fondling’s pinkcoat shot, more guns, and The Marquess of Boscastle’s (just arrived!) whitecoat pike and shot...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920123938-48256170.jpeg)
Here we see the redoubtable whitecoats in position…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920123938-48255690.jpeg)
A bird’s eye view of the Royalist left…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920123937-482541159.jpeg)
And centre…
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920123937-482531078.jpeg)
And that’s about it! Enjoy ;)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-240920123937-482522402.jpeg)
(I’m actually playing a genuine game with some of this lot tomorrow, so there may yet be a few more pictures… )
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Lovely stuff, all of it!
Many thanks for posting the whole thread.
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Tremendous, a real pleasure to see this project come to fruition. The 🐝 beehives made me smile.
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Eye candy is right! That's truly spectacular!
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Coo! What a feast!
But you do know it's the law that if you have wargaming hats it is mandatory to wear them during games, don't youi? We want pictures as proof or we'll grass you up to the Old Bill. :)
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Wow! o_o
What a fantastic collection of miniatures and terrain! :-*
Well done, Richard. Well done!
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Don't think you've got quite enough figures there Captain B! :D
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Difficult to find the words to express just how epic those images are. I salute you!
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A true cascade of eye candy!!! :-* :-* :-*
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To be clear, this isn’t a wargame in progress – I’ve just shamelessly deployed the collection onto the table for the eye candy :)
Nothing wrong with that, we all love drooling over eye candy from time to time.
Congratulations mate, you’ve got a cracking looking collection there, not to mention the excellent terrain (and beehives of course).
8)
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Magnificent! 8) :-*
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Fabulous stuff :-* :-* :-*
A really beautiful collection to be very proud of.
How many years in the making Richard?
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Tremendous collection! :)
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Which manufactures made the beehives?
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Simply stunning...
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I'm saying nothing 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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Wow 🤩. A really fabulous cavalcade of troops. Wonderful figure painting and the terrain sets them off wonderfully. Struggling to think if I’ve seen a better looking setup. Inspirational.
Thanks for taking the time to set it up and share it. 👍🏻
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A fabulous collection Richard and quite a treat to see them arrayed as if for battle. Truly wonderful. :-* :-* :-*
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Thanks very much gents :)
Which manufactures made the beehives?
Dirk, they are from our good friend James :)
How many years in the making Richard?
Well I guess the first 230 or so figures took about a year or 18 months to pull together and get painted, (either by me, or by Michael and Shaun). That was around 10 years ago.
The other 150 or so (the resurrection bit!) I have added in the last seven months. Again, Michael (Baner) painted around 20 of these for me, and Shaun (Redzed) another 40 or so. The remainder I painted myself - all as detailed above in the course of this thread :)
But you do know it's the law that if you have wargaming hats it is mandatory to wear them during games, don't youi? We want pictures as proof or we'll grass you up to the Old Bill. :)
lol I’ve got pics of me wearing both those hats somewhere!
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Now THAT is a very inspiring collection of ECW porn, Riccardo!
:-* :-*
So, when are you going to set about painting the rest of the population of England, then...?
:D
lol I’ve got pics of me wearing both those hats somewhere!
I can well believe that, for some reason.
;D
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That must be a strong table Richard :D
Stunning job it has been a pleasure to watch your progress
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Well I guess the first 230 or so figures took about a year or 18 months to pull together and get painted, (either by me, or by Michael and Shaun). That was around 10 years ago.
The other 150 or so (the resurrection bit!) I have added in the last seven months. Again, Michael (Baner) painted around 20 of these for me, and Shaun (Redzed) another 40 or so. The remainder I painted myself - all as detailed above in the course of this thread :)
Considering all your other projects that's exceptionally good going at such a high standard 8)
lol I’ve got pics of me wearing both those hats somewhere!
Plynkes is of course correct, proof please :)
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A truly magnificent force. Thanks for taking the time to stage them.
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Gob, meet smack! :o
A stunning collection and terrain, quite inspirational. Many thanks for doing this, I’m going to be looking through those photos for several days to come :-*
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Hecking heck Richard - dare I say it but seeing that lot takes me back to the 'old days' of the forum. Outstanding in every way!
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Thanks gents. Glad you like them :)
Hecking heck Richard - dare I say it but seeing that lot takes me back to the 'old days' of the forum. Outstanding in every way!
lol I know just what you mean Keith. Quite often, browsing the forum these days, the lyrics 'A little less conversation, a little more action please' do seem to pop into my head ;)
Meanwhile, I've reset the table to a more open village + river arrangement for today's game (s)
The Pikeman's Lament this morning, and then another reset (more village buildings!) for A Fistful Of Lead medievals this afternoon :)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-250920080034-4828983.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-250920080034-48325227.jpeg)
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I can well believe that, for some reason.
;D
If you had a proper phone you could join in the fun lol
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wonderful (with figs pics). Can't really imagine better.
photo quality is mostly excellent too, particularly if you're using natural light (can't really tell if there's anything else going on -which is all the more impressive).
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simply wonderful - have fun with your games
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Richard: a simply breath-taking collection. Fabulous. The owners of Renegade and of Bicorne must be a bit richer as a result! ;)
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Richard: a simply breath-taking collection. Fabulous. The owners of Renegade and of Bicorne must be a bit richer as a result! ;)
They should be paying him !
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Stupendously great layout!!
I don't want to digress but......
Are the 'tiles' made from wood? I'm still humming and haring over what to use to building my terrain tiles and if I could get away with using wood then what sort of would it be best to go for and what sort of material is it best to use to create the texture and perhaps the off ridge or two?
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Marvelous collection, and terrain setup. It all looks great!
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Said it before and will say it again: wonderful collection and lovely terrain. It must have been a lot of joy to set up all of your miniatures.
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Impressive :-*
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Thanks lads :)
Said it before and will say it again: wonderful collection and lovely terrain. It must have been a lot of joy to set up all of your miniatures.
Thanks Nick. Undeniably enjoyable :)
Are the 'tiles' made from wood? I'm still humming and haring over what to use to building my terrain tiles and if I could get away with using wood then what sort of would it be best to go for and what sort of material is it best to use to create the texture and perhaps the off ridge or two?
Darrell, these are just flat 6mm MDF boards about 15 years old. I have about a dozen of them with different road surfaces, ponds, low profile textures overlaid. Everything else - houses, fields, hedges, walls, trees, etc, just gets placed on top to create the scene. I store these boards flat in a stack. They have never warped. Truthfully, I don't know why people seem to have such trouble with terrain boards! I've got about 15 'sculptured' foam slab boards (temperate and desert), plus a dozen of these flat MDF boards. I've never had any warping from any of them - and they are not reinforced in any way. Honestly, I think it's all about how and where you store them :)
Anyway, a game was played, but for some reason, my camera was playing up and most of the pics were blurry :(
So just a couple of shots for flavour...
Prince Rupert leads his lifeguard across the bridge into the teeth of Gallivant's pike... Schoolboy error.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-260920101701-48336869.jpeg)
Although his unit of gallopers was destroyed, the pike were then shot to pieces and routed by Royalist musketry...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-260920101701-48337441.jpeg)
Leaving the Prince to go knocking on doors looking for Lady Astley - who it turned out the rascally Roundheads were holding in the church instead...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-260920101702-48338432.jpeg)
This was just one small corner of the battle, but alas, no more pics worth showing :(
Much more entertainingly though, here is Senor Malamute getting into the spirit of things before the onset of hostilities lol
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-260920104150.jpeg)
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Much more entertainingly though, here is Senor Malamute getting into the spirit of things before the onset of hostilities lol
lol
That's terrible lol
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Much more entertainingly though, here is Senor Malamute getting into the spirit of things before the onset of hostilities
A fearsome sight lol
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Darrell, these are just flat 6mm MDF boards about 15 years old. I have about a dozen of them with different road surfaces, ponds, low profile textures overlaid. Everything else - houses, fields, hedges, walls, trees, etc, just gets placed on top to create the scene. I store these boards flat in a stack. They have never warped. Truthfully, I don't know why people seem to have such trouble with terrain boards! I've got about 15 'sculptured' foam slab boards (temperate and desert), plus a dozen of these flat MDF boards. I've never had any warping from any of them - and they are not reinforced in any way. Honestly, I think it's all about how and where you store them :)
Thanks Richard, indeed thanks again. Apologies for going a little OT again; I think the less risky option for me to start out with is to buy some 6mm boards and just experiment with them. That way I'm not potentially wasting a load of Panel Systems Foam. In other words I need to stop messing around and just do it! :)
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What a wonderful set-up! :-*
Much more entertainingly though, here is Senor Malamute getting into the spirit of things before the onset of hostilities
I think Nick should have modeled the hat instead of the helmet. It fits his swashbuckling style better. ;)
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“A little less conversation “ lol ;)
Wonderful stuff Richard!
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What a wonderful set-up! :-*
I think Nick should have modeled the hat instead of the helmet. It fits his swashbuckling style better. ;)
lol
I did and looked sooo much more like a royalist cavalier in the hat. lol
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lol
I did and looked sooo much more like a royalist cavalier in the hat. lol
And with the front brim turned up, a Dorsetshire turnip farmer. lol
I really enjoyed both games Richard. Shame though about the photos not being up to scratch.
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And with the front brim turned up, a Dorsetshire turnip farmer. lol
I really enjoyed both games Richard. Shame though about the photos not being up to scratch.
This is true. lol
A thoroughly enjoyable days gaming indeed. Looking forward to the next t one already.
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I shall send the picture of Nick to the Berrylands for their wall of fame....
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Wonderful stuff, Riccardo.
Proper eye candy*.
:-* :-*
*Except the last one, of course, but good to see you are doing your bit for 'care in the community'.
:D
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I wonder if nick is standing on some boxes, Richard. Or did he grew since last october???
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I was lying on the floor and shooting the picture upwards...
Apparently that’s how they shot all Sylvester Stallone’s movies too ;)
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What an utterly magnificent thread! So much to admire, and the boards are out of this world.
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Spectacular table. I thoroughly enjoyed the event. Next time you need a camera rig set up over the table (with a long power lead).
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Spectacular table. I thoroughly enjoyed the event. Next time you need a camera rig set up over the table (with a long power lead).
Haha, thanks Steve. Yes, intermittent WhatsApp video for the three remote participants did not prove a particularly rewarding interaction - and quite stressful for those of us actually in the room lol
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I am digging the tache, Nick. Very in-period. Did you grow it specially for the game? That's dedication.
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Truly awesome work sir.
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Terrific stuff. Like seeing stills from the Cromwell film of the 70s. :)
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Terrific stuff. Like seeing stills from the Cromwell film of the 70s. :)
Spooky ... was just thinking the very same.
So much to like in this thread, I found myself going back to the start again 8)
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So much to like in this thread, I found myself going back to the start again 8)
lol thanks Matt
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Well done armies, nice cinematic battlefield. That must be a joy to play with!
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You gotta hand it to the good Captain, when he sinks his teeth into a chosen period he really goes to town! That's one helluva set up. People are very jealous! Enjoy the games!
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I was lying on the floor and shooting the picture upwards...
Apparently that’s how they shot all Sylvester Stallone’s movies too ;)
Also the Semper Opera in Dresden was shot for a beer advertisement in this way. I was so dissapointed when I saw the Opera in real. Ask a guy from Dresden if the original Opera is hidden in another part of the town (He shouted something like "Typical guy from west germany!!!"). So next time at BLAM we all walk on knees except Nick, ok?
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Also the Semper Opera in Dresden was shot for a beer advertisement in this way. I was so dissapointed when I saw the Opera in real. Ask a guy from Dresden if the original Opera is hidden in another part of the town (He shouted something like "Typical guy from west germany!!!").
o_o o_o o_o
So next time at BLAM we all walk on knees except Nick, ok?
No one is going to fall for that trick, DD!
;D ;D
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Truly stunning m’Lord. I csn only bask in your shining light.
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(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/48/577-260920104150.jpeg)
Watch out! He's got a knife :?
lol
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That's the thing most of us frequent visitors dream of. You're living the wargamer's dream.
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When I look at some of the Units and scenes depicted in these photos , I’m immediately reminded of the illustrations the great Rick Scollins had published in the wargaming magazines of the 80s and 90s. I can’t think of a higher praise than that .
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Thanks gents - those are very generous words, thank you :)
Yes, I well remember the late, great Rick Scollins' gorgeous ECW paintings in Military Modelling. I kept them all for years - the pages with his pictures, not the magazines. Wonder what happened to them? Lost in a house move somewhere along the way I guess.
His art was certainly a strong formative influence on me, so maybe a little of the Scollins aesthetic did rub off along the way :)
There was a man who died much too young - only in his mid-forties I believe. A great loss to illustration. His passions for folklore, folk music and dance, and English history were the same weird mix as mine.
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Cracking stuff guys :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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I've just added some more buildings to my C14th - C18th town... These will do for Wars of the Roses and ECW and all points in between (and about 100 years either side :))
Having seen Digits' excellent work on his Total Battle Miniatures (TBM) WW2 buildings - and having never come across this company before - I thought I'd try a couple. So I bought a half-timbered row of shops and a barn.
These are from their 'Black Powder Europe' range of 28mm buildings, and do look a bit Mitteleuropa, but will do perfectly well for late Medieval through to Horse and Musket era England...
The TBM buildings are 50 quid each (unpainted), post-free. Which I think is blinking good value and a lot of resin for your money. They're rather nice: large, quite chunky. Good detailing, although slightly grungy casting in a few places. Also with some hairy residue clinging in places. Don't know if this was an attempt to model wattle / daub / animal hair infill, or just some by-product of the casting process. A bit odd. I got quite a lot of the looser stuff off, but you can see some of it still where I just sealed it in place...
The top storeys of the buildings lift off so you can place figures inside, although there's no interior detailing.
Here's the row of shops... A bit wonky, but I think that's intentional.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120155425-494861155.jpeg)
Close-up...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120155425-494881346.jpeg)
Three angles on the barn...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120155425-494891334.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120155426-494901621.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120155426-494912108.jpeg)
At the same time, I also bought another Grand Manner house - the double bay version of one of the buildings I already had.
This range of medieval town buildings was was sculpted by Tony Harwood, (our very own Dampfpanzerwagen here on LAF), rather than by Dave Bodley (Mr Grand Manner himself). Unfortunately, several of them no longer appear to be in the Grand Manner catalogue.
It's a much more finely detailed creation than the Total Battle Miniatures buildings. There again, since Mr Bodley will now only sell his products painted, this little beauty set me back a princely £174 including P&P :o
Which I feel is rather a LOT, even for such a lovely model.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120161316-494921815.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120161317-49493265.jpeg)
On the plus side, it does have painted interior detail on both ground floor and first floor - floorboards, doors etc.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120161317-494941794.jpeg)
This is the 'wargames standard' paint option. Not bad, although fairly basic TBH. It does save a lot of time though, because painting the two TBM buildings was quite a lot of work... ::)
Anyway, here are the three new buildings along with some figures for scale, showing various other angles and backed up with some of the rest of the town... This is about half of it. I can now more or less fill a table with town!
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120161317-494951783.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/49/577-301120161317-494961004.jpeg)
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Very nice but expensive
I am sure a man of your talents could build better
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Interesting choice of colours, but blends in rather well. Good work, and I just love your scenic shots :-*
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If you can afford it get it!
You have a magnificent table and scenery to go along with your beautiful figures. I am Green with envy!!
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They all look like beautiful buildings. I think my favourite is the barn though: the uneven bottom of the wooden siding and the wobbly roof suggest a characterful, old utilitarian structure.
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Half-timber me shivers — that's looking good!
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Amazing collection, Richard! o_o
And good on you for dropping a few quid which I am sure those companies really appreciate at this time.
The other day I ordered 90 pounds of stuff from Pendraken.
This craziness isn't going to last forever, but if we don't spend some bob, some of our favorite places will be history. Make someone happy this Christmas and spend some money!
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Amazing collection, Richard! o_o
'Tis indeed! :-*
I keep wanting to look at the sides of your terrain tiles though lol (I know, I should just do it)
And good on you for dropping a few quid which I am sure those companies really appreciate at this time.
The other day I ordered 90 pounds of stuff from Pendraken.
This craziness isn't going to last forever, but if we don't spend some bob, some of our favorite places will be history. Make someone happy this Christmas and spend some money!
I've already done so. Quite a bit of cash has been splashed out of late.
I do hope things aren't going to be as bad as many are anticipating, the vaccine is literally around the corner. Apologies for going a little OT but it is an emotive issue with, I'm assuming, all of us. :)
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Great collection! Definitely a bit jealous here! :D
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A wonderful colorful town. It will make for some very beautiful battles.
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Nice buildings!!!
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Well done again Richard, those buildings remind me of the Shambles in York, beautiful and atmospheric. 😍😍😍
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Well done Richard, your collection of buildings is really coming together. I don’t think I’ve seen a bigger town on these pages 8)
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Just caught up with this. I know you said you’d ordered a few of the TBM houses. I think they mix in very well with your other buildings tbh. I agree the Grand Manner one is more detailed, certainly inside but as you rightly point out, a huge price difference.
External appearance though, I think they all complement each other well and as already mentioned, I too think the barn is the best of the bunch.
Lovely pictures btw, especially with the ECW chaps. I do a bit of reenactment, and always dreamed I would win a mint, and have commission built some fibreglass building reliefs that could be transported about to be used at musters to recreate just such a look. Instead, I have to console myself with makeshift timbre and canvas panels or rolls of hessian to disguise toilet blocks in the middle of our battlefields! Lol
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very nice housing you have there :-*
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lol Thank you gents.
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Very nice buildings. Really look the part.
My bank manager is very pleased to hear that Grand Manner don't make any 15mm buildings.
[aside]Digits: that's why the parade and muster in Nantwich always looks so good - the buildings play their part[/aside]
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They look beautiful :-*.
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[aside]Digits: that's why the parade and muster in Nantwich always looks so good - the buildings play their part[/aside]
Indeed....missing it terribly this year! 😩.....one of my favourite musters, especially having lifted the Rose Bowl (and drank from) a couple of times.......roll on the good times once more.....
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That’s a magnificent Cornucopia :-*
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A great looking collection of buildings :)
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The table replete with buildings is a real delight. Frankly though Grand Manner prices are on the far side of ridiculous in my view.
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Really nice buildings and they set the figures off beautifully.
I especially like the droopy roofed barn! You don’t get that sort of character with MDF.
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Thank you gentlemen.
I especially like the droopy roofed barn! You don’t get that sort of character with MDF.
I’m afraid you don’t get any sort of character with MDF. In fairness, some of them look a lot better than they used to, and they are very clever, often technically brilliant pieces of 2D engineering and design, trying ever so hard to look 3D. But always sadly lacking in any soul. And inevitably missing the organic character of actual old buildings.
But then I feel the same about printed mats ;)
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Thank you gentlemen.
I’m afraid you don’t get any sort of character with MDF. In fairness, some of them look a lot better than they used to, and they are very clever, often technically brilliant pieces of 2D engineering and design, trying ever so hard to look 3D. But always sadly lacking in any soul. And inevitably missing the organic character of actual old buildings.
But then I feel the same about printed mats ;)
Agree 100% on the limitations of MDF, and get your point about printed mats...I guess it all comes down that balance between the following:
time vs cost vs realism vs playability
MDF being cheaper, but requiring more time to bring them up to a level of quality you are happy with.
When it comes to printed mats, I know I can do better if I build the boards myself, but equally I’ll get a game on the table a whole lot quicker (possibly even years quicker) if I use a mat , at least at first.....and it leaves more time to paint thousands more figures than I would otherwise :D
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Thanks Matt. Yeah, I totally get it. It’s a compromise between what might look the absolute best (although everyone has different ideas on that) vs the time, money, skill and interest available to a person. Some people just don’t care how things look - it’s all about the game. Other people do care, but are content to settle on those compromises.
Mats are a definite improvement on Subbuteo cloths lol
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Mats are a definite improvement on Subbuteo cloths lol
Anyone using a subbuteo cloth should be reported to the authorities immediately ;)
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Thank you gentlemen.
I’m afraid you don’t get any sort of character with MDF. In fairness, some of them look a lot better than they used to, and they are very clever, often technically brilliant pieces of 2D engineering and design, trying ever so hard to look 3D. But always sadly lacking in any soul. And inevitably missing the organic character of actual old buildings.
But then I feel the same about printed mats ;)
Absolutely. I doff my cap to those who design, and those who go to great lengths to turn these kits into beautiful unique buildings. But when I see the lengths that they go to I do sometimes wonder if it might not be quicker to scratch build?
MDF works best for more modern buildings, but are much too square and pristine for built by eye medieval/Tudor timber framed buildings. I'm immediately thinking of some of the buildings on Friar Street in Worcester (https://c.yell.com/t_smallRect@2x,f_auto/1a1d4e80-ec72-48ee-b03d-3df1498d625f_image_jpeg.jpg)
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You have to remember that those buildings are probably 500 years old or so, so they probably didn't look as wonky when they where new. Also the view that these buildings where all black and white is again due to the age of the oak as they would have been a light oak colour in there younger days. Forgot to say nice looking village though.
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Just for completeness, the ultimate act of ECW resurrection has proved to be an overpowering urge to add some figures of my own devising lol
More info here: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130330.msg1651617;topicseen#new
And here they are :)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/50/577-210321125426-507802491.jpeg)
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Excellent comes to mind Captain! 8)
Christopher
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Anatomically well sculpted with fine detail and they match perfectly with other manufacturer's ranges!
And when painted... :-* What's not to like? Good luck to Bloody Miniatures! Cheers!
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Excellent news and congratulations Richard 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
The miniatures are superb as one would expect from Nick Collier :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Yes indeed imho Bicorne/Renegade make the best ECW figures and with your superb painting make them shine that much more!
Christopher
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Yes indeed imho Bicorne/Renegade make the best ECW figures and with your superb painting make them shine that much more!
Christopher
The Renegade ECW range is one that I really miss. They has several sales where the miniatures were very cheap and I stupidly missed out on them all >:(
They mixed seamlessly with Bicorne for obvious reasons. mind, the TAG stuff and now Richard's Bloody Miniatures have added to the variety which is always a strong positive.
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The Renegade ECW range is one that I really miss. They has several sales where the miniatures were very cheap and I stupidly missed out on them all >:(
They mixed seamlessly with Bicorne for obvious reasons. mind, the TAG stuff and now Richard's Bloody Miniatures have added to the variety which is always a strong positive.
TAG miniatures (Nick Collier) are my favourites - the range they have is amazing and well for someone like me who dabbles in esoteric periods and armies I love them :-* and I think if I can invest in some of Capt. Blood's new offerings too ;)
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Just to keep this project thread up to date, here are a few conversions of my own brand (lol) Bloody Miniatures. The first few are simple headswaps carried out by me. The second batch are more adventurous conversions by the very talented Brian Rigelsford. All painted by yours truly :)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/577-260421133015-511821190.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/577-260421133106.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-080821114609-52408321.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-080821114609-5241093.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-080821114609-524111470.jpeg)
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Nice, very nice.
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Well they a really lovely aren’t they….tempting me to start another period…..but I have enough going on at the moment, so perhaps in a year or two….
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Outstanding jobs there! Congrats!
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Quite lovely and I think one would be hard pressed to tell that either batch were conversions so bravo :-*
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Stunning work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Stunning work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Seconded!👍
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Lovely conversions and some stunning painting. :-* :-* :-*
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really nice :-*
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Thanks gents :)
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Superb, the conversions work beautifully. Lovely paint jobs too, the fabrics are grand.
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These are so nice and the painting is as stunning as ever
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Great stuff, it is wonderful to see some Bloody inspiring stuff over here having just hopped over from medievals!
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Really superb figures and related application of paint old bean...you have done yourself proud with this range........ :-* :o :-* :o
best regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
www.gringo40s.blogspot.com
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Lovely conversions and lovely painting!
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Thank you gents :)
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Lovely work and very natural looking conversions. Bloody Miniatures really are an excellent addition to the ECW ranges out there. In fact other than potentially adding the odd pack to my Bicorne stuff I can't see me picking up anything else other than these.
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It would be even better if the Three Musketeers were done :D
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Lovely work and very natural looking conversions. Bloody Miniatures really are an excellent addition to the ECW ranges out there. In fact other than potentially adding the odd pack to my Bicorne stuff I can't see me picking up anything else other than these.
Awww. Thanks Steve :)
It would be even better if the Three Musketeers were done :D
Shut it, you >:D
lol
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You know you want to. They’ll be great sellers ;)
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Great conversions. :-* :-* :-*
An inspiration to paint mine.
And i second The Three Musketeers... :D
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Very nice indeed!
:-* :-*
Really looking forward to that Royalist (Daemon) Prince you mentioned.
:D
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The three musketeers are not only this. You also need Richeleu, the king, the queen, lady de Winter, Constance and some more or less innocent bystanders. I think a very good project for early 2022, Sir Riccardo la Sangre.
BTW what is with the WW2 italians, I didn't ask for a long while lol
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BTW what is with the WW2 italians, I didn't ask for a long while lol
I have heard they are in the queue, just behind the Goblin tanks.......
;D
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You are the conversion master Richard, it’s as simple as that.
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The three musketeers are not only this. You also need Richeleu, the king, the queen, lady de Winter, Constance and some more or less innocent bystanders. I think a very good project for early 2022, Sir Riccardo la Sangre.
Don't forget the Cardinal's Guard :)
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Don't forget the Cardinal's Guard :)
I count them as more or less innocent bystanders
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I'm getting more just because. I suspect these figs will make me an ECW gamer eventually.
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I'm getting more just because. I suspect these figs will make me an ECW gamer eventually.
Excellent ;) lol
Three more freshly painted Bloody Miniatures to add to the collection today, armed with a few of the separate weapons which will be available shortly (details on my Bloody thread here: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130330.new#new) :)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-120921091104-527291815.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-120921091104-527352254.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-120921091104-52736896.jpeg)
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Nicely done although I would say that the figure on the right would’ve been better with his musket reversed.
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Lovely :-* :-* :-*
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I bought the first release,and I'll be buying all the future ones.
But I could definitely go for some Border Reiver types,maybe from a few,(several), years earlier
Andy
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Captain, marvelous as always.
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Nice work Captain Blood.
Cheers,
CB
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Just realised I haven't updated this thread with any of my last two Bloody Miniatures releases and other assorted stuff - doh. Ah well, it's all there in my Bloody Miniatures specific ECW/TYW thread, if anyone's interested :)
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130330.0
Meanwhile...
I've been making some hastily thrown together ECW barricades (at the time, exotically termed 'barricadoes') for a specific game I'm planning.
The trouble with many commercially produced barricades, is that the necessity of casting them in resin means they tend to end up as solid-looking, linear lumps rather than more haphazard edifices.
They also seem to usually feature a lot of sandbags, which always look a bit too C20th to me. (I know sandbags or similar were in use down the ages, but neatly stacked banks of sandbags always say WW1 / WW2 / Vietnam to me. Not the English Civil War).
I also wanted my barricadoes to have a period-specific flavour, by including some bits and pieces of weaponry and discarded hats, helmets, buckets, wheels, and so on. So this is my C17th tribute to Clanmac's epic Junktown Scrapyard thread - I've followed his dictum of mercilessly raiding the bits box!
These include a few chopped up bits and pieces of old and new resin (Oshiro gabions), lengths of chain, Rubicon plastic WW2 stowage, a batch of 3D printed barrels (lovely shape, sadly not a great finish when seen close up - too many striations visible ::)), plus various leftover doors, pieces of balsa portraying scavenged timbers, and sacks of stuff made from Green Stuff. The sacks really help to tie each little mini diorama together...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-110622180215-556522159.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-110622180215-55656190.jpeg)
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(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-110622180407-556621813.jpeg)
That's eight 4" sections made and undercoated, providing 3 feet of barricades.
Once I've painted them, I'll post the results :)
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They look more very tasty and less very hasty. Nice work!
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looking good!
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Nice work - they certainly look like an accumulation of stuff thrown into the street from doors and windows.
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I like these!
Whenever we do siege re-enactments, a few in my regiment always want to have a cheval de frise or two, but I always think they seemed a little later than the ECW….but maybe the 1680’s was when the name stuck. Still, could give you something else to look at too?
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Good work my Captain.
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They look great :)
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Excellent modelling skills on display Richard :-*. It will be great to see them painted up.
May I ask, did you give the chain a good coating of PVA to stop it from moving about on the barricade) Or perhaps something other method?
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Those barricades look amazing.
Steve
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Excellent. I'm sure your troops will be much happier behind them. :)
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Great looking barricades. :-* :-*
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Wow - I’m amazed to not see a kitchen sink in those :D ! Great barricades. I look forward to seeing them painted up. I’ve been working on some temporary fortifications as well ;)
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Thanks gents :)
Darrell, yes, a good coat of PVA on the chains to fix them in a set position.
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Darrell, yes, a good coat of PVA on the chains to fix them in a set position.
Thanks Richard 8)
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I really love those barricades !! Truly inspirational :D
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They'll do the job :)
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They look very nice!
Christopher
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Thanks all.
And here are the barricadoes painted... :)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-280622150605-557601242.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-280622150605-557612332.jpeg)
Rear view...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-280622150605-557621528.jpeg)
With figures...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-280622150605-55763245.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/55/577-280622150906.jpeg)
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Lovely :)
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Superb! :-* :-* :-*
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if that's the natural light / velux windows manouvere again, then ... again, the results are just beautiful.
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Superb Richard. :-* :-* :-*
I love the details on the detritus. A man after my own heart as I can never resist "colouring in" the extra details.
BTW, what did you use for the rust effect on the barrels, wheels and chains?
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Brilliant work! 👍
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Fabulous!
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Nice!
The finished picture looks kind of like the soldiers are browsing some sort of 17th century car-boot sale.... :)
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Now don't they look the business??
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The finished picture looks kind of like the soldiers are browsing some sort of 17th century car-boot sale.... :)
Welcome to Captain Blood's Emporium of Tut!
;) ;D
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Wow. Just wow, Richard. Bloody (!) brillant barricadoes! :-*
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Brilliant work as always :-*
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Thanks chaps.
I’m working on a big game - which may end up as a display game, or the basis for an article or series of articles, either in one of the wargames magazines, or possibly via my Bloody Miniatures website - for which these, and much more terrain stuff to come over the next few months, are intended.
More details once the whole scheme is fleshed out…
BTW, what did you use for the rust effect on the barrels, wheels and chains?
It’s just an ultra thin wash of burnt sienna oil paint diluted about 20:1 with artists white spirit :)
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Very swish Richard, superb :-* :-* :-*
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It’s just an ultra thin wash of burnt sienna oil paint diluted about 20:1 with artists white spirit :)
Thanks Richard. I'll have to give that a try on something.
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They do look the business 8)
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Great work Richard. :-*
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They look great I like the wood effects on the barrels
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Wonderful barricades. I can't think of anyone else who would go to so much trouble, and or who would produce barricades which are so colourful. Works of art.
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Brilliant - you have so much talent that you make junk look so good lol
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Haha!
Thanks chaps :)
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Liking the barricades … and caught up with the thread at last.
RMZ
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Thanks Harvey :)
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Those barricades are divine I must try make some 10mm ones for my ECW inspired by yours...
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Echoing what all the others said, I wish I could polish my junk to look this nice. ;D
Love the splotches of colour with the doors.
I will have to try recreating something like that in 65mm scale for my Three Musketeers project.
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Lovely work Richard
Best set of junk I have ever seen
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I have been neglecting this thread, and haven't even posted up all the Bloody Miniatures that I have produced and painted in the last year and a bit.
I have however, finally managed to paint The Warre Game's excellent set of cuirassiers...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/59/577-290823143541-599221453.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/59/577-290823143541-599232151.jpeg)
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Absolutely tremendous.
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They’re handsome
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Absolutely superb painting on some absolutely superb figures
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Wonderful minis, Richard! :-*
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The miniatures look great Richard. :-* :-*
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Painted to perfection! Collector's items! :-*
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Very nice miniatures
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wow
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Excellent 8)
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Wow indeed. Those are beautiful. :-*
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They really are magnificent!
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Thanks all :)
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Fantabulous! Your painting really shows how awesome those faces are. I already have enough cuirassier to field them 1:1 but I may have to grab some of these.
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Ditto - especially those faces. I keep expecting to see the gentleman in the soft hat actually breathe!
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They are top notch. :)
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Absolutely stunning :o
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Simply wonderful.
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I have been neglecting this thread, and haven't even posted up all the Bloody Miniatures that I have produced and painted in the last year and a bit.
I have however, finally managed to paint The Warre Game's excellent set of cuirassiers...
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/59/577-290823143541-599221453.jpeg)
How do they measure up alongside Bloody Miniatures? (I assume different sculptor but I could be wrong. ::) )
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Orctrader: you're right. Bloody Miniatures are sculpted by Nick Collier, the Warre Game by Paul Hicks. Bloody Miniatures hasn't yet released any horsemen, and The Warre Game hasn't yet released any infantry, so I can't be certain, I imagine, however, that Bloody Miniatures horsemen will be much bigger. Bloody Miniatures infantry are big (like Bicorne when they were first released), while The Warre Game are smaller. The Warre Game are similar to the Empress TYW riders (also by Paul Hicks) and actually match pretty well with the old Foundry TYW cuirassiers.
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...Bloody Miniatures are sculpted by Nick Collier, the Warre Game by Paul Hicks...
Thanks Paul.
Although smaller than my Bloody Miniatures, I'll try and order a set anyway. ::)
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Were there plans to have additional command figures to match the Warre Game range ?
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Curassier: my only knowledge on this comes from The Warre's Games' Facebook page, but I understand that a further release of figures will be made in a month or so. It looks like Steve Jones, the owner of The Warre Game, has plans to produce figures going forward in a more formal way.
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Sounds like good news ! Thanks
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I should have added that additional figures which might match The Warre Game riders are Perry ECW cuirassiers and Warlord Wars of Religion gendarmes. The gendarmes are also sculpted by Paul Hicks.
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How do they measure up alongside Bloody Miniatures? (I assume different sculptor but I could be wrong. ::) )
Thanks Malcolm. Yes, as Paul says, these are by Paul Hicks, mine are by Nick Collier.
I should be getting the 'greens' for the first four Bloody cavalry packs in the next day or two.
Also, as Paul says, Bloody Miniatures are at the bigger end of the 28mm spectrum. Whereas Mr. Hicks's sculpts for The Warre Game are a little more diminutive - more in line with TAG size-wise. I think the Perry ECW cavalry figures are smaller still.
That said, I'm using the same eBob licenced horse models as these (heavily titivated by Nick Collier), so the Bloody horsemen won't be too large or they'd look overly top-heavy. So I'm hopeful they should fit together reasonably well with these cuirassiers - we'll soon see.
(Steve Jones is an occasional visitor here at LAF, BTW, under the nom-de-guerre 'CaptainGeneral')
I'm happy with slightly smaller looking mounts for the Bloody horse. A couple of people have assured me that ECW (I'd guess also TYW) cavalry nags were not great thoroughbred knightly chargers; nor as well fed and bred as modern race horses or hunters. More of a mixed bag probably.
Pics soon :)
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I think I read somewhere that when the Swedes landed in Germany in 1630 they were mounted on very small Swedish-bred horses, and that it was only when they captured territory in Germany that they got hold of horses of comparable size to the Imperialists' horses.
My guess is that armies made do with the horses they could get hold of, with stronger horses being allocated to cuirassiers (because of the added weight of their armour). I believe that dragoon horses were often very poor. To my knowledge, only the Empress ECW dragoon horses try to represent this.
When I have a cavalry unit where the riders are of different makes, I try to base them on horses of just one make because I find that it brings the unit together better. It will be interesting to see whether the new Bloody Miniatures riders can be used alongside much smaller ones like The Warre Game ones when they are both mounted on Ebob horses. Most of my riders are of the smaller variety (TAG, Empress TYW, Foundry and, soon, The Warre Game) but there are some Bicorne riders I'd like to use in my units, and almost certainly some Bloody Miniatures ones too, and I'd be delighted if I could use them alongside my existing riders.
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Those Cuirassiers look sweet! Well done!
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I see that Steve Jones has put up a size comparison on The Warre Game Facebook page. For obvious reasons, it doesn't yet include Bloody Miniatures horsemen.
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Beautiful painting on those cuirassiers...
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Thanks Simon :)
I see that Steve Jones has put up a size comparison on The Warre Game Facebook page. For obvious reasons, it doesn't yet include Bloody Miniatures horsemen.
Thanks Paul. I'll do a comparison when I get the production castings back, but here, for the record, are the Bloody cuirassier 'greens' :)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/60/577-210923130437-60105894.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/60/577-210923130437-601061454.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/60/577-210923130437-60107259.jpeg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/60/577-210923130437-601082276.jpeg)
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This range has grown into something quite unique these days Richard. Variation and character beyond measure when compared to many ranges out there.
I was looking at your website the other day and all the packs have a unique dynamic character all of their own. For this both you and Nick have to be congratulate!
Absolutely gobsmacked at this range :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Thanks Darrell. It is quite the labour of love ;)
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Thanks Darrell. It is quite the labour of love ;)
Which comes across in volume Richard 8)
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They are great, any chance to get standing horses with them? Would fit a bit more for skirmish gaming
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They are great Richard. :-* :-*
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They are great, any chance to get standing horses with them? Would fit a bit more for skirmish gaming
If I had my druthers, in general, there would be more mounts posed walking and standing.
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They are great, any chance to get standing horses with them? Would fit a bit more for skirmish gaming
y'know, don't get that - why better for skirmish gaming, just out of interest?
always preferred 'dash' in figures, both foot and cavalry.
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Dragoons dismount to skirmish and the horses are left with a holder .
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These are absolutely tremendous figures - some of the nicest I've ever seen.
As a manufacturer you have to select a pose for the horse, and you need one which will suit the rider and appeal to the greatest number of people. Most people seem to like galloping horses, because most cavalry come on galloping horses, even though I suspect that in reality cavalry horses spent little time galloping - I have a vague recollection that Gustavus' cavalry were trained to charge at the trot, and I suspect that horses which carry a man and his equipment all day every day wouldn't be able to gallop much anyway. My personal preference is for walking or standing horses, but I appreciate that I'm in a small minority, and that units on walking or standing horses are probably not commercially viable.
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Dragoons dismount to skirmish and the horses are left with a holder .
I see, hadn't thought about it from the practical point of view.
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My personal preference is for walking or standing horses, but I appreciate that I'm in a small minority, and that units on walking or standing horses are probably not commercially viable.
I too like walking &/or standing horses. I think it is the pose they would be in most of the time.
By the way in my early ECW wargaming days I wanted my Pike men in the charge position.
A friend, ex-RN, had his either standing pike upright, or walking with pike resting on their shoulders.
Joining the SK persuaded me that my friend was right. On one particular occasion the CO (no names
no pack drill) held us at the charge for an eternity while he explained the Civil War to the crowd. :-[