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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on March 23, 2021, 01:26:26 PM
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I've got about 40 Front Rank and North Star 1672 figures that I painted (years ago), and I've just sent another batch off to the brilliant Redzed for painting. But I kept a few back to do myself as an occasional amuse-bouche ;)
Here's a mounted officer and his man... The officer is one of those figures that has sat primed on the shelf for literally about ten years. I finally got tired of looking at him gathering dust lol
I think a few small games of The Pikeman's Lament set in this period will be great fun, and I also still have a Lorna Doone-set project in the back of my mind.
The foot figure is an artilleryman, but I've given him a pistol and a Green Stuff mitt instead of his linstock :)
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Cracking work!
Lorna Doone-set project in the back of my mind.
I know of a perfect ECW range for doing the Doones... New out, lots of very dynamic chaps in buff coats, with odds and sods of armour...You may even be familiar with it yourself :-P
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Lovely work Richard :-* :-* :-*
The reds are spot on 8)
I love the touch of rouge on the Gentleman Officers cheek, an excellent touch and very fitting for the period.
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Yes, when I saw those new figs, that was exactly what I thought - Lorna Doone!
Cracking work!
I know of a perfect ECW range for doing the Doones... New out, lots of very dynamic chaps in buff coats, with odds and sods of armour...You may even be familiar with it yourself :-P
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Beautiful! :-*
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Gorgeous painting!
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Thank you fellows :)
Cracking work!
I know of a perfect ECW range for doing the Doones... New out, lots of very dynamic chaps in buff coats, with odds and sods of armour...You may even be familiar with it yourself :-P
Hmmm.... Funny you should say that.
The next release from Bloody Miniatures may well include a pack of disreputable looking moss troopers in Dutch coats, floppy hats, and armed to the teeth >:D
Possibly.
All being well.
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Those really are lovely and you paint so well I cannot fathom why you send stuff out for painting - though I do note you have sent them on to a superb painter
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Lovely painting. Some new late c.17th sculpts would be super!
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Thanks gents :)
Those really are lovely and you paint so well I cannot fathom why you send stuff out for painting - though I do note you have sent them on to a superb painter
Honestly Kerry, it's because I just have so much lead I want to get painted and use from time to time, and I just don't have time to paint it all myself. Being a 'good' painter is a time-consuming thing :)
Plus I love Shaun's (Redzed's) painting style. It's quite like my own - only more so!
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Lovely painting on those figures :-* :-*
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Beautiful work
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They are lovely!
(Moss Troopers you say - whoop! 👍)
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Funny, I finished my small unit for a skirmish a month ago. Great figures (1672 by Northstar), but never expanded. One of the problematic ranges by Copplestone, started like the Back of Beyond and then a victim of his missing discipline I’m afraid.
Your painting is brilliant. I think a plastic range would raise your troops from 40 to 200, right?
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Gorgeous painting (as always) on good figures.
And, Moss Troopers..........veeeery interesting :D
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The next release from Bloody Miniatures may well include a pack of disreputable looking moss troopers in Dutch coats, floppy hats, and armed to the teeth
*drool*
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Lovely pjs :-*
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Excellent brushwork by Redzed - any chance he will appear and share his triad?
Another period you have stirred a lot of people’s interest in Captain Blood!
Unfortunately my lead mountain is still too high to start a new period 😕
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Stop doing this Richard, tempting us addicts into another period. 😱😱😱😱😱😱
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Lovely paint jobs :)
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have been heavily into late C17 during lockdown, mainly due to a batch of Dixon's Sedgemoor figures that came very cheap via ebay and some scenario PDFs that I picked up for Beneath the Lily Banners/War of the 3 Kings rules.
But if you are looking at skirmishes, have you tried the Donnybrook rules?
Reasonably simple (have used them with an after school club) and quite quirky
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Thanks Gary. Yes, I have had a couple of games of Donnybrook. Not bad at all. On balance, I think I prefer the idiotproof simplicity of The Pikeman’s Lament, but Donnybrook probably has a little more period flavour, and especially for this particular era :)
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there's also a "Donnybrook at Sea" supplement now to add messing about in boats...
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look forward to the Lorna Doone project. Your take on a miniature Exmoor should be something to see.
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Helion have just brought out a book on the Anglo-Spanish war 1655-60 in the Caribbean.
Any chance of some suitable (almost "Captain Blood" era) colonial types joining the lists?
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Very interesting and a period I have thought about but never gamed. Even though I have a Dixon army.
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The reds are stunning :-* :-* :-*
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A belated thank you for the comments from several months ago! (Sorry ::))
I've added a few more characters...
The baby-eating Bishop of Munster, from the North Star 1672 range (a Steve Saleh sculpt I believe), accompanied by his faithful otter hound - which is another of Mr. Atter's wonderful 'Dagshounds'. Sniffing out heretics and apostates!
Actually, this character looks so much like The Witchfinder General, he's probably going to see much more use in that capacity in my ECW games. But as, strictly speaking, he's later C17th, I'm putting him in this thread...
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Then three more civvy types. The fellow in blue is a Front Rank supernumerary, who appears in their Late C17th section, but is actually just lifted from one of their C18th ranges, which is why his coat is rather more 1745 than 1675, but still.
The other two are from the North Star 1672 range, the civilians pack, again (I believe) by Steve Saleh. The two ladies from this pack are already somewhere in my neverending ECW project thred :)
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And here they are together... 'Seen any witches around here?' ;)
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Love these Richard!
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That mounted chap is very WFG 8)
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Splendid :)
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The baby-eating Bishop of Munster, from the North Star 1672 range (a Steve Saleh sculpt I believe), accompanied by his faithful otter hound - which is another of Mr. Atter's wonderful 'Dagshounds'. Sniffing out heretics and apostates!
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/577-160821133413-524782391.jpeg)
The 1672 is made by Mark Copplestone, Sir Riccardo. Another started thing he never finished. Great work from your hands, You are still one of the big ones.
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Lovely. :)
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Yes- absolutely super!
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Great stuff - always love seeing the hounds painted; makes my day 8)
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Thanks.
Your hounds are lovely, Jon, and a pleasure to paint :)
The 1672 is made by Mark Copplestone, Sir Riccardo. Another started thing he never finished. Great work from your hands, You are still one of the big ones.
Thank you Dirk lol
Yes, Mark Copplestone launched the 'Glory of the Sun' range and took it half way. But when North Star took it over from him and rebranded it to 'North Star 1672', I believe Nick brought in Steve Saleh to finish off the range.
So while most of the original infantry and command packs are by Copplestone, the cavalry, artillery and character / civilian packs, as well as some of the later infantry packs, were sculpted by Steve Saleh :)
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Very nice :-*
I must say, Steve Saleh is my favourite sculptor these days,his work is unmistakable.
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Thanks Guy.
I agree with you about Steve. Not sure he really put his heart and soul into churning out rank and file 1672 packs quite to the extent that he has done since for his own inspired Lucid Eye ranges. But he has a lovely and distinctive style, as you say, and always gets bundles of spot-on character into every figure he creates.
(I think he's actually very much like Mark Copplestone in that regard :))
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Lovely job on those full of character :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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So while most of the original infantry and command packs are by Copplestone, the cavalry, artillery and character / civilian packs, as well as some of the later infantry packs, were sculpted by Steve Saleh :)
A fact I missed, but it tells me why I loved parts of the range more. Copplestone is the Nicolas Cage of the Tin SCene, staying in one pose. Maybe the reason why he never drives his range over a certain point. Did Steve Saleh more 17thC for other companies? I love his figures and would expand my started stuff.
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No, I don’t think he did any more historical period stuff, other than a couple of ranges (ancient Greeks etc) for Foundry. If you look at his own very prolific output for his Lucid Eye brand, it runs mainly through fantasy, pulp, adventure, MesoAmerica, Atlantis, and so on. I don’t think traditional historical periods and genres are really his area of interest :) He seems much more inspired and productive when it comes to the imaginary settings that are now his main focus.
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Lovely painting Richard. :-* :-* :-*