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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on 27 November 2009, 08:29:50 AM
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Finally, Mike Owen has sculpted some more Renaissance figures :) :-*
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/4/577_27_11_09_9_25_36.jpg)
Mike sculpted the popular sea dogs and swashbucklers line for Foundry - cut off in its prime.
He's been threatening to return to the Renaissance ever since he started Artizan, and looks like he's finally taken the plunge. Personally, I think his seadogs and swashbucklers are the best figures he's ever sculpted (although many of the Thrilling Tales figures are also right up there). In fact, as I never tire of telling people, his sea dogs are my favourite 28mm wargames figures anywhere ever. So I'm hoping this venture will lead to a few more late Elizabethan types in due course...
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Mike's a very good sculptor, maybe in the same league as the Perrys and Mark Copplestone.
These figures look like they really are superb - but I'd hate to think how much a decent sized pike block would cost in 28mm :(
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They look beautiful, not my thing at all, but mighty fine miniatures. :)
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Hurray for Landsknechts! They look absolutely marvellous. All I have to add is simply put in their own words: "Her, her, her!" :-*
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Awesome!
Will have to buy them for my ever growing Empire/Landsknecht army lead and plastic pile. :-*
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Looks great!
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Very nice however I question the commercial decision on this one - Foundry have an excellent range that seems to fill the position already? Now, if he had concentrated on expanding the Seadogs range.........
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I was a bit gutted when I found out they were Lansnechts but I have heard he may venture the range into the Wars fo Religions so dont give up hope Captain :D
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I've been waiting this long. Another year or two for him to work his way to the end of the C16th won't matter ;)
What gets me is some eejit on the Artizan Yahoo Group bemoaning the fact that Mike is dabbling in Renaissance when he should be concentrating on WWII!
Selfish bastard!
Apart from the new Mutineer C19th figures, he's been doing virtually nothing but C20th subjects - and mainly WWII - for about the last five years, for Crissakes! >:(
Let the man sculpt Renaissance if he wants to. I love his Thrilling Tales figures, but I'm not a huge fan of his rank and file WWII stuff. I think he's BETTER at the earlier subjects - like the seadogs and swashbucklers.
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Agreed. Judging by the photos, the period has really caught his imagination, they look like truly lovely figures, better than anything 20th C he has done with the possible exception of the Arab Revolt.
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I totally agree with the Sea Dogs range: some terrific models there! I have a few here in need of a paint job!
I hope the Artizan Renaissance range goes that way, at least with some personalities rather than just rank and file troops.
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I just bought the Regiment deal. No idea when I'll paint them but, rest assured, they will be bright! ;)
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I just bought the Regiment deal. No idea when I'll paint them but, rest assured, they will be bright! ;)
;D
Whilst I have nothing against well sculpted and painted WWII stuff and in the past have quite enjoyed painting the various German camo uniforms, they can't compare with a well sculpted and painted 16th-17thC unit.
Looking forward to seeing some examples from both Orc Trader and the Cap'n :D
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What gets me is some eejit on the Artizan Yahoo Group bemoaning the fact that Mike is dabbling in Renaissance when he should be concentrating on WWII!
Selfish bastard!
Apart from the new Mutineer C19th figures, he's been doing virtually nothing but C20th subjects - and mainly WWII - for about the last five years, for Crissakes! >:(
Let the man sculpt Renaissance if he wants to. I love his Thrilling Tales figures, but I'm not a huge fan of his rank and file WWII stuff. I think he's BETTER at the earlier subjects - like the seadogs and swashbucklers.
Agreed. After all it's not like the market can do with more paratroops or late war Germans. The WW2 element bemoan anything Mike does if it's not to their tastes that's why I've given up asking for any Old West releases, just seemed a little pointless. I hope that Mike sticks with this range and we get some more of the lovely work akin to the sculpts he'd produced for Foundry. :)
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Excellent! We're all agreed - C16th is the future :D
Enough WW2 already!
;)
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No... the 17th C is the future, both in a relative and philosophical sense. :)
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Mike sculpted the popular sea dogs and swashbucklers line for Foundry - cut off in its prime.
He's been threatening to return to the Renaissance ever since he started Artizan, and looks like he's finally taken the plunge. Personally, I think his seadogs and swashbucklers are the best figures he's ever sculpted (although many of the Thrilling Tales figures are also right up there). In fact, as I never tire of telling people, his sea dogs are my favourite 28mm wargames figures anywhere ever. So I'm hoping this venture will lead to a few more late Elizabethan types in due course...
Have just spotted this thread. What gorgeous figures!
I have a gang of Mike's Foundry swashbucklers on my desk right now, primed and waiting for paint. They truly are wonderful sculpts and I'm looking forward to getting them dolled up.
I don't think that I need these pikemen, but oh they look so great! But now my painting efforts have gone all 16th century of late, need is a pretty relative term, right?
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Foundry has a nice range but a) very incomplete, just gendarmes and landskects and b) too expensive for me. I need somebody to do a line that fills in all the gaps. Most of my Italian Wars armies are made up of Old Glory as they were the only ones at the time to have all the varied troop types. Now with the Assault Group's growing line and now Artizan, those OG figs might be getting replaced.
-J
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I only have a couple of sets from this period, mostly Aztecs, but I do have the Sea Dog's small gun and crew. Is that one of Mike's sculpts? If so, I do have one leetle quibble. How in the nombre de dios is that gunner supposed to stuff that 18pdr shot down that 2pdr(?) bore? :D I'm not looking forward to carving the ball away to replace it with a smaller one!
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I do have the Sea Dog's small gun and crew. Is that one of Mike's sculpts? If so, I do have one leetle quibble. How in the nombre de dios is that gunner supposed to stuff that 18pdr shot down that 2pdr(?) bore? :D
The Sea Dog gunners are Mike Owen sculpts (although probably the least good sculpts in the range sadly - they look like they were done in a hurry to me, being not very subtle adaptations of other figures in the Sea Dogs range).
However, it's not Mike's fault that the ball is way too big for the gun, because that pack is a classic Foundry cut-and-shut job.
The gun is the same gun which originally appeared in the Copplestone-sculpted Eldorado adventurers gun and crew pack. So they don't go together because they weren't designed to go together!
Doesn't help you, I know, but worth knowing why ;)
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I love Owens' work and have nearly all the KKBB, Thrilling Tales, Pirates, and many of the Wild West figures. I even have a bit of WWII stuff awaiting paint. I'm really hoping he gets to do more outside of WWII, stuff, though.
There's so much out there for World War II, that I can't fathom what gamers for that conflict are looking for, especially for the ETO. The last five years has seen an explosion in the number of figures for it. I don't even know that many people into 28mm WWII gaming. It's costly, space intensive, and well-suited to big events, but not nearly common enough for me to go beyond painting up small groups of German soldiers for pulp gaming. For gaming that conflict, I stick to 15mm.
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Very nice, not my interest, but the figs are nice and well painted
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Fingers crossed on Wars of Religion etc this year from Artizan, I have been finishing of the old Foundry Seadogs and they are cracking minis
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Fingers crossed on Wars of Religion etc this year from Artizan, I have been finishing of the old Foundry Seadogs and they are cracking minis
Amen to that, with bells on!
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Hurry up Mike must have more Swiss, then French etc. Just painted a load of landsknects they are full of character. p.s need a Swiss hornblower with devil costume. THE CID.
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Threadomancy................. :o
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It happens.
I really like the look of these figures, and need to pick up some packs. Need to!