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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on 30 August 2008, 04:42:04 PM
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Okay, well actually it's the TAG TYW personality figure of Marshal Tilly... Having bigged them up, I thought I ought to paint one.
I think I will get them all... :D
For me, he is Tilly no longer, but will serve as March Warden in my Reiver battles... I'm loving the ruff...
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/Tilly4.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/Tilly3.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/Tilly2.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x69/pantomaniac/Tilly1.jpg)
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Excellent stuff as ever Cap'n :-*
Don't we all like a bit of ruff? ;)
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Never have enuff ruff, man.
Another great figure.
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That looks great - he is a good looking figure. :)
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Lovely work
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Very nice! The Coaching Inn makes a great backdrop!
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Delightful. Lovely painting, great photo too with the beautiful inn in the background. ;D
Very much looking forward to seeing these figures and playing on the terrain soon ;)
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Border reivers... hmmm.... mix in some highland cattle raiders, some royal dragoons, and you may actually have a setting fit for a LotR Battle Companies historical variant on the lines of LotOW and LotHS.....
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Richard
You've got to stop doing this to me! I love your painting style, fantastic work as always.
Pat
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Ah. That Catholic swine Tilly, who I grew up to hate after reading the Swedish TYW classic 'The heroes of the Yellow Brigade'.
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Very nice work
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Indeed a very nice work.
I wish I could paint (and taking photos) like you!
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Wow, splendid - very nice model too, besides the grand paint job. He looks as self-satisfied as a cat. :D
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Oops, I've only just seen him >:( ::)
Lovely figure and I can see why you like their range so much!
I take it that as a "March Warden" he is [in theory at least] the government's "policeman" in the borders?
If so, I wonder just how honest and upright he is, judging by the expensive-looking armour. Surely he wouldn't stoop to indulging in reiving himself to get some extra income.........
lol
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lol
How true - he really is too fine for a March Warden, but I now have a compulsive habit of acquiring any and all late Tudor/Stewart era personality figures as character figures for my various games. Poor old Tilly is now The March Warden. Gustavus Adolphus (who arrived this morning with a culverin, a load of gabions, artillerymen, and those TAG mounted carabins) is going to be recast as a reiving Crozier or an Armstrong (sorry about that, Hammers, Rhoderic and other Swedish colleagues ;)) Although he may well also double as a royalist colonel for my rapidly expanding ECW collection...
On the subject of which, for anyone else who may have missed some of these recent pictures, should you care to take a look, I've loaded a batch of shots into a new ECW section on my LAF gallery here...
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;su=user;cat=74;u=577
;)
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How true - he really is too fine for a March Warden, but I now have a compulsive habit of acquiring any and all late Tudor/Stewart era personality figures as character figures for my various games. Poor old Tilly is now The March Warden. Gustavus Adolphus (who arrived this morning with a culverin, a load of gabions, artillerymen, and those TAG mounted carabins) is going to be recast as a reiving Crozier or an Armstrong (sorry about that, Hammers, Rhoderic and other Swedish colleagues ;)) Although he may well also double as a royalist colonel for my rapidly expanding ECW collection...
On the subject of which, for anyone else who may have missed some of these recent pictures, should you care to take a look, I've loaded a batch of shots into a new ECW section on my LAF gallery here...
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;su=user;cat=74;u=577
;)
I don't think it matters about being too fine - after all you could easily say he was a recently retired professional soldier taking up a second career, or just a rich local with an armour fetish. I'm sure Gustavus Adolphus will fit in well too - good idea about the ECW alternative use. I may steal it for my own games ;)
I have a couple of ECW Generals who are too posh for the sort of skirmishes I like. When I get them painted, I will just say they are local big-wigs with loads of money and military experience.
I'd love to try some reiving one day, from the little I've read it is quite thrilling stuff.
I believe there were a family of Halls on the borders, so that could be my inspiration. After all, you don't find too many namesakes in history.