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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: londoncalling on August 03, 2022, 09:54:22 PM
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Rewording this from my "Wanted" post. Can anyone recommend suitable stand-in horses for Citadel's M series medievals (the HYW not WoTR range)?
Looking for both barded and unbarded.
Sincerely hoping the hive mind will solve!
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Have you tried Wargames Foundry?
They have these actually listed under EX-Citadel Early Medieval / Barons Wars / The 13th Century
https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/early-medieval-barons-wars-the-13th-century
Guessing someine bought the moulds back in the day I think he's an ex sculpter but not sure which one. So no need for a seems like you can still get the original deal :)
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So not those ones. The ones I am talking about are a very early Perry range, around 1980, pics here:
http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Historical_-_Medieval
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Have you had a look at Gripping Beast Front Rank range ? The horses are sold separately so could get a sample. I do not 'know' if any use but have used them with the later Foundry Models (having to sort the saddle out) after reading this blogsite;
http://harness-and-array.blogspot.com/2017/08/french-knights-for-crecy.html (http://harness-and-array.blogspot.com/2017/08/french-knights-for-crecy.html)
Simon is painterman this board so he may have more information for you?
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So not those ones. The ones I am talking about are a very early Perry range, around 1980, pics here:
http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Historical_-_Medieval
Good luck with your search, but I think trying to find early Ex-Citadel sculptered and styled like of a particular range 40 years on is going to be a Holy Grail of Hen's Teeth. Also It depends what your 'settle' for when it comes to difference between any new sculpt and the originals, as unless a direct copy it may always be a not quite right.
Citadel Medievals
The miniatures were integrated into the C26 & C38 ranges in 1983. Most were then sold to Wargames Foundry when Citadel stopped making historical ranges.
So unless a niche range is brought up if Ral Partha or ebay is also no good then there's 3D Print, and Wargames Atlantic have released a horse pack if your any good with Sculpting green stuff and the size still fits anbd Conquest games do some Perry Like minis of dark age cavalry.
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Some good suggestions, and yes a real holy grail!
I bought a few at the time, but they were 3 or 4 times the price of minifigs, my money didn't stretch that far. :D
There is a Garrison pose that works quite well, Minifigs horses at a real pinch. I also want to check out Ral Partha, Essex and Irregular as not sure if they class as small or "regular" 28s.
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Happy to hear my mad musings may yet be of sense :)
Your talking about ye olde ranges reminded me of Old Glory UK and its various sub ranges which seems to cover from infinity and beyond and a fair bit of historical in the style of from back in the day.
https://www.oldgloryuk.com/part-1-the-crecy-war/3/42/618/666
So maybe these maybe of use, but I think that's about it, worse thing will be the right look but wrong scale, hope your able to find a budget friendly source in timely fashion :)
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The limited experience I have with Ral Partha historicals is that their ancients are 25mm and on the small side at that.