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Offline TheDilfy

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Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« on: May 27, 2020, 07:36:06 PM »
Evening all, Can anyone tell me who sculpted the set below, thanks :
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Online Paul Richardson

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2020, 09:35:43 AM »
Have you tried asking Warlord?

Offline TheDilfy

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2020, 10:16:06 AM »
Hi Paul, good suggestion and I have asked them, so will see. I asked here first as many gamers and modellers here know so much about the figures and sculptors I thought the great hive mind that is LAF would possibly know AND that sculptors tend to frequent LAF so thought it easier and quicker to ask here first  ;)

Offline TheDilfy

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2020, 12:48:19 PM »
I have been reliably informed the sculptor was Tomas Axellson a free lance sculptor.  :) So, does anyone have contact with Tomas?  ???

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2020, 07:14:04 AM »
Hello

I did this set a couple of years ago.
You can send a PM on this forum.

Kind regards
Tomas Axelsson / TAX


Online Paul Richardson

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2020, 10:50:23 AM »
Tomas: the Torstensson figure is a really nice sculpt. I've got one here and, if I ever get round to building a Swedish TYW army, he'll feature prominently.

Offline TAX

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2020, 07:37:36 AM »
Tomas: the Torstensson figure is a really nice sculpt. I've got one here and, if I ever get round to building a Swedish TYW army, he'll feature prominently.

Thanks! It was actually my first commercial sculpt. But originally I made it for my own pike & shotte army.

Kind Regards
TAX
« Last Edit: May 30, 2020, 07:39:18 AM by TAX »

Online Paul Richardson

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2020, 08:25:49 AM »
Tomas: assuming you have a Swedish army, which figures do use for your rank and file native Swedish infantry? I ask because I would like to build a Swedish army of the Gustavus era, but I think it's quite hard to find suitable native Swedish infantry figures. To my mind, Swedish infantry were distinctive in their clothing/equipment because:

1. apart from the King's lifeguard, probably all infantry wore Hungarian coats coming down to mid-thigh;

2. all musketeers carried rests;

3. all musketeers wore, or at least were issued with, helmets; and

4. Swedes often carried swords with a distinctive hilt.

To my mind, the only figures which might suit are the 1st Corps Swedes, and I'm afraid I'm not that grabbed by the figures.
 
« Last Edit: May 30, 2020, 01:08:33 PM by Paul Richardson »

Offline TheDilfy

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2020, 11:20:34 AM »
Hello

I did this set a couple of years ago.
You can send a PM on this forum.

Kind regards
Tomas Axelsson / TAX

Tomas I've sent you a PM.

I agree with others the Lennart set is scenic and a real action capture.

Offline TAX

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2020, 10:26:49 PM »
I’ve used mainly Warlord games plastic, but also Bicorne, Perry and redoubt. I actually only have one ethnically swedish regiment the rest are scots and germans.
For that regiment I used Warlord games swedes mixed with their veteran Musketeers.
My main source When building my army was a book called ” gustav ii adolf och hans folk” in english ”Gustav II Adolf and his people” by Göte Göransson. A really nice book crammed with illustrations of both military and civilian matter . Unfortunatly it’s only in Swedish...

Kind Regards
TAX
« Last Edit: May 31, 2020, 07:14:24 AM by TAX »

Online Paul Richardson

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Re: Lennart Torstensson Swedish FC Figure(s)
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2020, 08:22:01 AM »
Tomas: many thanks for that. I'll look that book up. My hope is that Daniel Staberg will bring out a book on Gustavus' army, and that this will inspire someone to produce a good and accurate range of Swedish figures

 

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