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Title: Irish Figures
Post by: The Gray Ghost on 04 May 2012, 12:04:13 AM

Sgt Majors has a Irish range
sgmm.biz/irish.html (http://sgmm.biz/irish.html)
how late could these figures be used?
through the ECW?

Title: Re: Irish Figures
Post by: Hobbit on 05 May 2012, 12:06:19 PM

I'm not an expert on Irish costume, but the English woodcuts that show the Irish "attrocities" in the 1640s don't show the Irish wearing distinct clothes from the English. Most specifically ECW Irish miniatures show them in tight fitting trews and fairly shapeless sack coats. So, I'd say those figures are probably too early for the ECW. See Warlord Games and Eureaka Miniatures for examples of ECW specific miniatures.

Also remember that, as always, Ireland was a good recruiting ground for mercenaries to serve in Europe and that there is an excellent chance that those men would have acquired fairly standard European style clothes (though how long those would have lasted back in Ireland is moot). I suppose a great deal depends on what exactly you want to portray.

Title: Re: Irish Figures
Post by: Mitch K on 05 May 2012, 05:24:34 PM

IMO, these are really Elizabethan / early Jacobean, and not very suitable at all for ECW / War of the Three Kingdoms. Very nice though!

Title: Re: Irish Figures
Post by: Emir of Askaristan on 07 May 2012, 10:02:16 PM

These are 16th century Irish, so unsuitable for the ECW. They will do for the Elizabethan period. Irish for the "ECW" period are available from a number of manufacturers including Redoubt, Warlord and others

Title: Re: Irish Figures
Post by: Dave Knight on 08 May 2012, 01:24:29 AM

I wondered what had happened to the old Vendel ranges!