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

[Axebreaker]

Fantastic!!

Christopher

[gamer Mac]

Stunning colourful paint work

[Ray Rivers]

Wonderful! 

[levied troop]

Those are gorgeous - both the figures and the painting.

[Romark]

More great work on those,the colours are just terrific

[Hammers]

Gorgeous as per usual, Richard. I should ask you for a coupe for my wife to wear as pendants for her earrings.

[Captain Blood]

Gorgeous as per usual, Richard. I should ask you for a coupe for my wife to wear as pendants for her earrings.

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 ), 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:

[Hammers]

Ya gotta love the motto! 

[Silent Invader]

One would expect the officers to be more finely dressed, so I think the slight variation is perfect 

[Paul Richardson]

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.

[Paul Richardson]

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.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

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.   

[Ray Rivers]

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! 

[Bugsda]

The painting's great but the Rick Rolling is a bit passe Richard 

[Hu Rhu]

 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.