Some tough Ironsides - just finished :)

[Captain Blood]

Having extracted all the useful mounted figures for my Elizabethan / Reivers force from an assortment of Bicorne ECW packs, I decided to paint the remaining figures as 'true' English Civil War cavalry.

8 figures down, 8 more to go!

Then I have another 7 figures in burgonets and 'older style' gear that I'm planning to do as Elizabethans.

After that, about another 4 or 5 cavalry that I need to paint as non-Ironside ECW cavalry types.

Phew.

Then I'll have had enough of painting C17th cavalry to last me a year or three!

Then it's onto my patient Copplestone cavemen and Brigade tramp steamer sailors!

By the way - the officer in these shots is a actually a Renegade ECW figure - but as both the Bicorne and Renegade ranges were sculpted by Nick Collier, they are totally compatible.

[Overlord]

Great miniatures.

I recently tried painting my first 28mm horses and found it a bit of a struggle.  These are really nice.

[Captain Blood]

I recently tried painting my first 28mm horses and found it a bit of a struggle.  These are really nice.

Thanks Overlord. I think the problem is that a lot of 25mm/28mm sculptors - including some of the top ones - are pretty damned good at sculpting little people, but not so good on horses.

Many horse models from certain currently leading manufacturers look more like dogs than horses. This is often explained away by 'well, they're ponies, not horses', but this doesn't really wash.

I think horses are just difficult, and unfortunately, whilst a great paint job can sometimes rescue a so-so figure, a great paint job on a rubbish-looking horse isn't going to make it look any more horselike!

Painting these Nick Collier sculpts is a joy. Lovely tall horses, with lovely big classical horsey heads and very well defined musculature. They really make painting very easy.