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Title: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: flags_of_war on 23 July 2014, 11:40:46 AM: David Imrie has posted some of the minis from Claymore Castings new Hundred Years War range on his blog. So far we have a couple of crossbow men sculpted by Matthew Bickley.

http://saxondog.blogspot.co.uk/

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aoGsUv4v1l0/U87iW43bziI/AAAAAAAADMs/GOmBOaLM7d8/s1600/IMG_1502.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UBPB0xlg3Ew/U87iXFu49XI/AAAAAAAADNU/uPI2SPqHiS4/s1600/IMG_1504.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JPMUTxqpxQM/U87iXDwu9eI/AAAAAAAADMw/9yFUPwcOHUA/s1600/IMG_1505.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ppd2YjDfIsY/U87iX_gcf5I/AAAAAAAADM0/-DPuxtNziu4/s1600/IMG_1506-001.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EbgH5DT28nY/U87iYTv77cI/AAAAAAAADNE/q6sCoYhRlms/s1600/IMG_1506-002.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YZp6Ewp-IoE/U87iYTprgqI/AAAAAAAADNA/PeyD-O_hciA/s1600/IMG_1506.jpg)
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Phil Robinson on 23 July 2014, 12:13:10 PM: Super stuff, they look like they are about to use the thing and not just pose with it :-*
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Silent Invader on 23 July 2014, 12:20:58 PM: Very nice (hopefully the size will work with Perry) :-*
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: westwaller on 23 July 2014, 12:56:37 PM: I like the look of these!
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Ray Earle on 23 July 2014, 12:57:57 PM: Nice. :D
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Vermis on 23 July 2014, 02:33:28 PM: Y'know, they look excellent, but I can't help but notice minis sculpted with the hand held at right angles to the arm and wince in sympathetic pain...
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on 23 July 2014, 03:11:31 PM: Quote from: Vermis on 23 July 2014, 02:33:28 PM
Y'know, they look excellent, but I can't help but notice minis sculpted with the hand held at right angles to the arm and wince in sympathetic pain...

I don't follow. ???

The first picture seems to be missing something. Shouldn't there be a crows foot or lever to pull the string?
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Captain Blood on 23 July 2014, 03:13:43 PM: Really very nice. Matthew is getting better and better. A credit to his family ;)

Inevitably one wonders how well these will fare going up against the Perry plastic HYW behemoth that will shortly be arriving, but I sense that Claymore has built a pretty loyal and dedicated following, so I'm sure they'll sell well enough :)
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Phil Robinson on 23 July 2014, 03:14:37 PM: "The first picture seems to be missing something. Shouldn't there be a crows foot or lever to pull the string?"

If you read David's blog you will see that the crossbows are not yet finished.
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: flags_of_war on 23 July 2014, 06:12:51 PM: Photo comparison.

Perry, Claymore - HYW, Claymore - Isle Man
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Silent Invader on 23 July 2014, 06:51:28 PM: Thanks very much. That works for me 8)
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Atheling on 23 July 2014, 08:03:05 PM: Quote from: Silent Invader on 23 July 2014, 06:51:28 PM
Thanks very much. That works for me 8)

Me too. nothing wrong with those sculpts either in appearance nor terms of date (ie Early HYW).

Lovely stuff both David, Andrew and Mathew!

:-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Darrell.
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: HvM on 23 July 2014, 08:57:50 PM: Amazing sculpts! :o
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on 23 July 2014, 09:24:16 PM: Quote from: Captain Blood on 23 July 2014, 03:13:43 PM
Really very nice. Matthew is getting better and better. A credit to his family ;)
I saw them in the round the other week when I was down at Matt's and they are really nice. Sculpting since he was 13 he really does cut the mustard in my view, though I am a tad biased perhaps... ;)
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: CaptainHaddonCollider on 23 July 2014, 09:59:45 PM: Very Nice!
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Hupp n at em on 24 July 2014, 01:09:35 AM: These look fantastic, and they scale perfectly with the Perry's work (surely not by design :P ). I will definitely look at picking some up, job well done!
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on 24 July 2014, 02:09:49 AM: Matt is on of my favorite sculptors these days. Some of the pieces he did for the Partizan show freebies were / are classics.
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: grant on 24 July 2014, 02:13:21 AM: Just terrific! :o
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Mister Rab on 24 July 2014, 08:53:08 AM: Those look excellent! I'm just painting up my first Claymore figures (the bill unit deal) and I'm delighted with them; historical accuracy, detail, good poses, and really characterful faces. I'm just having to be careful with the bills as I'm more used to "telegraph pole" spears lol
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: white knight on 24 July 2014, 09:57:17 AM: I'd be interested to see how they scale with 90's Peryy Bretonnians. I find the Perry HYW figures too slim to look well with their Bretonnians, but perhaps these are closer.
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: rumacara on 24 July 2014, 08:08:01 PM: White Knight, use the Front rank HYW figures with bretonians.
They mix well.
The trick is how you use bases for them.
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Garanhir on 24 July 2014, 08:46:49 PM: Quote from: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on 23 July 2014, 03:11:31 PM
The first picture seems to be missing something. Shouldn't there be a crows foot or lever to pull the string?

Not all crossbows had to be spanned with a lever or windlass. Especially in the 13th century, and a little way into the 14th I think, crossbows had a stirrup like the one we see here. Hooks on the belt engaged the string and the crossbow could be spanned with a hefty downward stomp.

EDIT: Thinking about it, it was more common to start kneeling and straighten up than it was to start standing and stamp down.
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: gringo on 24 July 2014, 11:23:49 PM: these sculpts look superb!" :D

regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
www.gringo40s.blogspot.com
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Cerdic on 27 July 2014, 10:54:49 PM: Lovely looking figures these! Detail is stunning!
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: levied troop on 28 July 2014, 09:15:33 AM: Been hoping for a good early HYW range to appear, these look to be just what the doctor ordered :)
Title: Re: Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range
Post by: Paleskin on 29 July 2014, 12:18:08 AM: Very nice.......but the helmet in the first pic 'bothers' me,something not quite to scale? ???
Otherwise lovely and will likely end up buying them!