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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Steve63 on 03 September 2016, 05:17:17 PM
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A couple of years ago Rob_bresnen posed this question
I was wondering what, if any, civilian models you would like to see and for what periods?
and my reply was Regency Ladies see here http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=70075.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=70075.0)
A couple of years have passed and the Regency Ladies are still very under represented. I spent an hour or so yesterday scouring the interweb for heroines, agent provocateurs and/or damsels in distress for Napoleonic skirmish games and I was frankly very disappointed.
Most of the figures I found can best be described as "Trolls in Frocks" and I'm not talking about flintloque, I know about the Front Rank Ladies which are miles ahead of the field but even they are more Agatha Parker
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tr7s375OHWk/V8rtzoK4nMI/AAAAAAAAER8/whi5dhlqzqs9XwSxuPi0cIjVKvPzIbVzACLcB/s1600/WP_20160903_16_33_17_Pro.jpg)
than Lady Farthingdale
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0kdMNO8Jki4/V8rmrtZIXnI/AAAAAAAAERY/4U_4Q9PUnwUdjI5foFyZPuCY8isqfjQWACLcB/s1600/6121905_orig.jpg)
The last night I got to wondering would some miniature entrepreneur like to do a Regency Lady Kickstarter?
There is plenty of inspiration from both history (herstory?) and fiction. Not only is there Sharpe, this year also saw the release of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It wouldn't need to be a big range of figures maybe inter changeable hands, some with weapons some with without, maybe different heads some wearing hats some with the hair up.
I haven't as yet backed any Kickstarters but I would back this like a shot, so if anyone is interested, you've got your first pledge.
Cheers
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Matchlock has a range of 28mm (I think) Regency Heroes and Zombies for the Jane Austen Zombie Killer Game. Yes, they do look a bit trollish although part of the problem may be the very flat paint jobs. I wouldn't completely pass judgment until I'd seen a few unpainted examples of them. They might look a lot better with some high quality brushwork. I may order a few samples to get a look in person. Why don't you do a KS yourself? ;)
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Matchlock has a range.....Yes, they do look a bit trollish
Yep you got that right
Why don't you do a KS yourself?
Working long hours in a high stress job to pay for the aspirations of 3 offspring hardly leaves any time to splash a some paint on toy soldiers never mind arrange and administer a Kickstarter.
Thank you for your input
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Can we add these two ladies for variety?
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/33/b7/d1/33b7d1570c334905edb278a0927453bf.jpg)
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Can we add these two ladies for variety
I like your thinking, but they're all ready covered with the plethora or steam punk figures ;)
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I like your thinking, but they're all ready covered with the plethora or steam punk figures ;)
Well said! lol
Seriously, good luck with your project!
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Seriously, good luck with your project!
Thanks grant, is that now 2 potential pledges? :D
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Not interested enough to pledge for the kickstarter, but thought I would mention the CH10 Mina Harker figure from Ironclad, she would make a great heroine for Sharpe:
http://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk/ourshop/prod_1061940-CH10.html
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Thanks grant, is that now 2 potential pledges? :D
Make it three - the more civilian figures and the more female figures, the happier I'll be :-)
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Thanks grant, is that now 2 potential pledges? :D
Absolutely! I will greenstuff moustaches etc.
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Absolutely! I will greenstuff moustaches etc.
This thread's not going exactly how I'd hoped but I'm lovin' it anyway
Make it three
This project has got to have legs surely someone must pick it up
CH10 Mina Harker figure from Ironclad
She's a nice enough figure but unfortunately she's not Regency, probably more Gothic Revival. The Regency Period or Napoleonic Period was all about a Classical revival. From around 1800 to around 1820 ladies fashion was very different to anything had had gone before or has came after, see here https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Regency+ladies+fashion&biw=1280&bih=907&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibmuPJzfbOAhVlLMAKHTWTB9AQ_AUIBigB (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Regency+ladies+fashion&biw=1280&bih=907&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibmuPJzfbOAhVlLMAKHTWTB9AQ_AUIBigB)
Cheers
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This thread's not going exactly how I'd hoped but I'm lovin' it anyway
Cheers
Cheers - I could always use a basis for new conversions! Totally serious too.
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While not the most handsome of women, they are in Regency costume and designed as French 'Marvielle' (forgive me spelling if you are French).
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_842&products_id=13119
Nic EUREKA MINIATURES
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Nic forgot to mention that there are also some ladies and other civilians in Eureka's French Revolution Mob vignette:
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_743_819&products_id=12832
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Steve63, do I understand correctly that you're looking specifically for 'ladies', and that women of the mob, farm wives and flash girls just won't do?
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I would. If they weren't too expensive (I consider more than £3.50 for a model on foot expensive unless it's AMAZING!)
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Sorry but I'm not at home so I'm using my phone and a dodgy WiFi connection
Hi Nic
I saw your Marielle figures on Google images bit couldn't find them on your site. These are nice figures but they look to me like the illustrations in satirical magazines of the period, I think that they work well within the range, but stylistically they are to far away from the figures that I am using, Foundry and Perry.
Hi Melnibonian
I don't think Nic forgot to mention the Paris mob as they are a mob and don't contain any ladies
Hi Zippyfusenet
You've hit the nail on the head.
The closest figure I've found to what I'm looking for is the Cinderella miniature from Reaper
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/cinderella/latest/50284
This is a beautiful figure but she's not in Regency dress and while she works in context, checking out her glass slippers put her in a skirmish game she looks like she's stood in something unpleasant.
What I'm looking for are elegant ladies of breeding and refinement dressed in the latest hout couture from the exclusive fashion houses of London and Paris. In game terms the officer classes not rank and file.
In a hobby with a reputation for rivet\button counting i find it difficult to believe that there are no suitable quality figures, after all no one would dream of suggesting that i use an AWI or Crimean Colonel to lead a Napoleonic regiment so why should that same Colonel have to escort a lady dressed like his scullery maid, grandmother or even his granddaughter
Cheers 🍻
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Four pledges now :o
It's practically funded ;D
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What about this gal?
http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/proddetail.asp?prod=GHH-02
I have these figures, unpainted, in my inventory. The figures are sculpted based on the recent Legend of Sleepy Hollow movie, which fashion-wise is set shortly post AWI, say 1790s or the turn of the 19th century, albeit in upstate New York. The West Wind Gothic Horror figs are 'robust' 28mm, but I think not impossible to mix with Perry.
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Thanks for the suggestion Zippy but she's definitely not Regency
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This is the best one I know of...
http://spacevixensfrommars.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15_16&products_id=201