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Title: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Captain Blood on 12 May 2009, 09:18:25 PM
Thought I'd show you these pics... Variants on an entry which just made a semi-final exit from Steve Dean's current painting competition...

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/gun8r.jpg)

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/gun1r.jpg)

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/gun6r.jpg)

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/gun7r.jpg)

(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/gun3r.jpg)





Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Hitman on 12 May 2009, 09:39:47 PM
Those are very nice looking figures. The pictures are excellent. Thanks for sharing!!
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Calimero on 12 May 2009, 09:40:57 PM

Very, very nice.  :-*

Since you obliviously have an interest for the ECW and the TYW, can you suggest some good reading concerning the Uniforms of the period?
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: BigMecha on 14 May 2009, 08:25:15 AM
excellent!  great colors!  perfect
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Captain Blood on 14 May 2009, 09:33:53 AM

Since you obliviously have an interest for the ECW and the TYW, can you suggest some good reading concerning the Uniforms of the period?


There are lots of Ospreys and similar, but the best one I've come across is in the Brasseys History of Uniforms series, 'The English Civil War'. It's a large format hardback, not too thick, but stuffed full of excellent detail based on lots of documentary evidence, and what gear actually survives from the period, as well as the more usual 'what we know from re-enactment'.
It's out of print at the moment, but fairly easy to pick up second hand - although not cheap. But def the one volume I'd recommend.

Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Ray Rivers on 14 May 2009, 09:37:51 AM
Saw the pics on Steve Dean's forum.

You was robbed...  ;)
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Mad Carew Snr on 14 May 2009, 09:38:34 AM
Excellent painting
Do you use these figures for gaming or are they just for the competition?
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Captain Blood on 14 May 2009, 12:35:50 PM
Well, I will be using them for gaming once I've finished painting the entire collection. Roundabout 250 figures all told - most of which have been pictured here along the way... It's a project which has taken about 18 months so far, without much time for anything else. But I'm on the home straight, then I shall start using them in anger  ;)


Saw the pics on Steve Dean's forum.

You was robbed...  ;)

Ah, thanks Ray. That's kind of you to say so, even in jest.  lol
I knew very well that I was going to get stuffed when I reached Tom Weiss's vikings. Tom knows how to paint and photograph those boys for maximum advantage, and he's a master of his craft.

I shall simply have to raise my game...  ;)
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: DFlynSqrl on 14 May 2009, 01:58:09 PM
Great looking scene Captain Blood.

250 figures will be cool to see once you have them all done.  I'm really looking forward to seeing the group shot.
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Ray Rivers on 15 May 2009, 02:02:57 PM
Tom Weiss's vikings

Those vikings were totally awesome!

There should be law against folks who paint like that!   ;)
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 15 May 2009, 02:25:40 PM
Outstanding figures and photography, Captain! I really like the background figures on the redoubt, very realistic.
 :-* :o

What a luck I can't get you in another LPL-match again ...  lol
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Malamute on 18 May 2009, 04:09:43 PM
Splendid stuff as usual. ;D
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: MadMö on 18 May 2009, 04:17:50 PM
Wow! :o
Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Captain Blood on 18 May 2009, 07:58:41 PM

250 figures will be cool to see once you have them all done.  I'm really looking forward to seeing the group shot.


So am I!  ;D

I've almost had enough of them. It's got to the chore stage now - but I am determined to finish them before moving onto cavemen, merchant sailors, aliens, more Elizabethans, Glory of The Sun, more F&IW highlanders... sigh. It never ends  ;)
Title: Re: A swashbuckling kinda scene...
Post by: Mad Carew Snr on 18 May 2009, 08:56:06 PM
Well, I will be using them for gaming once I've finished painting the entire collection. Roundabout 250 figures all told - most of which have been pictured here along the way... It's a project which has taken about 18 months so far, without much time for anything else. But I'm on the home straight, then I shall start using them in anger  ;)


250!!!  :o