Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!

[Atheling]

Baner's got talent 

[gamer Mac]

Lovely unit Richard

[Ray Rivers]

Good Lord!

They have eyes! 

[Silent Invader]

They are delightful 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Steve 

Good Lord!

They have eyes! 

This indeed is how you can tell they’re not painted by me 

[Paul Richardson]

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.

[sukhe_bator]

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...

[Paul Richardson]

I'm sure you're right, but it doesn't help me much when I'm modelling regiments equipped with matchlocks with musket rests.

[Captain Blood]

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
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? )





These for Sir Marmaduke Fondling's pinkcoat regt. of shot...





And these two for Sir Lucius Spoons' Greencoat regt. of shot...

[Atheling]

Ace Richard (and the mysterious Baner) 

[OSHIROmodels]

Pffffff

Eye's are overrated 

This is quite the collection. I think an entire group shot is in order 

[Captain Blood]

This is quite the collection. I think an entire group shot is in order 

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 )

[OSHIROmodels]

How many weeks do you have set aside for such a game?

 

[gamer Mac]

Lovely 
Looking forward to the game report 

[Paul Richardson]

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.