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Author Topic: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!  (Read 68311 times)

Offline Mad Lord Snapcase

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Absolutely beautiful work.  Sublime!  :-*   :-*   :-*

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Jam first 😁

This though, I have to take exception with!

Cream on first, brothers!


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 lol
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Offline Poiter50

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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!
Cheers,
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Offline Jeff965

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Brilliant thread as ever Richard, as far as the scone debate goes I prefer Welsh cakes  lol

Offline TheDilfy

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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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Offline Captain Blood

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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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 :-* :-* :-*
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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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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