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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: TheDilfy on May 27, 2020, 08:36:06 PM
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Evening all, Can anyone tell me who sculpted the set below, thanks :
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Have you tried asking Warlord?
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Hi Paul, good suggestion and I have asked them, so will see. I asked here first as many gamers and modellers here know so much about the figures and sculptors I thought the great hive mind that is LAF would possibly know AND that sculptors tend to frequent LAF so thought it easier and quicker to ask here first ;)
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I have been reliably informed the sculptor was Tomas Axellson a free lance sculptor. :) So, does anyone have contact with Tomas? ???
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Hello
I did this set a couple of years ago.
You can send a PM on this forum.
Kind regards
Tomas Axelsson / TAX
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Tomas: the Torstensson figure is a really nice sculpt. I've got one here and, if I ever get round to building a Swedish TYW army, he'll feature prominently.
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Tomas: the Torstensson figure is a really nice sculpt. I've got one here and, if I ever get round to building a Swedish TYW army, he'll feature prominently.
Thanks! It was actually my first commercial sculpt. But originally I made it for my own pike & shotte army.
Kind Regards
TAX
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Tomas: assuming you have a Swedish army, which figures do use for your rank and file native Swedish infantry? I ask because I would like to build a Swedish army of the Gustavus era, but I think it's quite hard to find suitable native Swedish infantry figures. To my mind, Swedish infantry were distinctive in their clothing/equipment because:
1. apart from the King's lifeguard, probably all infantry wore Hungarian coats coming down to mid-thigh;
2. all musketeers carried rests;
3. all musketeers wore, or at least were issued with, helmets; and
4. Swedes often carried swords with a distinctive hilt.
To my mind, the only figures which might suit are the 1st Corps Swedes, and I'm afraid I'm not that grabbed by the figures.
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Hello
I did this set a couple of years ago.
You can send a PM on this forum.
Kind regards
Tomas Axelsson / TAX
Tomas I've sent you a PM.
I agree with others the Lennart set is scenic and a real action capture.
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I’ve used mainly Warlord games plastic, but also Bicorne, Perry and redoubt. I actually only have one ethnically swedish regiment the rest are scots and germans.
For that regiment I used Warlord games swedes mixed with their veteran Musketeers.
My main source When building my army was a book called ” gustav ii adolf och hans folk” in english ”Gustav II Adolf and his people” by Göte Göransson. A really nice book crammed with illustrations of both military and civilian matter . Unfortunatly it’s only in Swedish...
Kind Regards
TAX
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Tomas: many thanks for that. I'll look that book up. My hope is that Daniel Staberg will bring out a book on Gustavus' army, and that this will inspire someone to produce a good and accurate range of Swedish figures