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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Atheling on September 24, 2022, 09:39:03 AM
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I noticed this on Facebook and thought it worth dropping here on LAF.
Verbatim:
"SALUTE 2023 - I’ve secured a place at this premier show and have embarked on a rather mad project ….
I’ll be showing
THE DEATHRIDE OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
I’ll be putting together the confrontation between Piccolomini’s Kurassiers and the Smaland Horse at Lutzen 1632 …
At one to one scale ….
Approaching 1000 cavalry on the battle table
To that end I’ve been busy commissioning a small range of Cuirassiers to bulk out my own collection … pictures below
I think they are rather fine and if there is sufficient interest I’ll be offering them up for sale (hopefully breaking even)"
EDIT: Hyperlinked images keep being "moved" on Facebook so I've left the images as attachments for your perusal on the bottom of this post.
Linkage to The Warre Game - 17th Century Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/The-Warre-Game-17th-Century-845807748787730/ (https://www.facebook.com/The-Warre-Game-17th-Century-845807748787730/)
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Thanks so much for sharing this. I would otherwise have missed it. These look to be really superb figures. I wonder who the sculptor is.
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That’s nuts…love it and super figures!
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Thanks so much for sharing this. I would otherwise have missed it. These look to be really superb figures. I wonder who the sculptor is.
Your name popped into my head the moment I saw them Paul :)
That’s nuts…love it and super figures!
It should make a wonderful game Roo. Here's to hoping I can make Salute 2023!!
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It looks like the ebob horse sculpts.
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Jolly nice. They look like Hicks sculpts to me. And yes, eBob horses I think.
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Yes, they do look like Hicks sculpts. If they are, they may match the Empress ex-Horcata TYW range.
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Certain those are Hicks’ sculpts and very nice they are too.
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The owner has confirmed they are Hicks sculpts and he's agreed to make them available for sale.
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I will definitely be getting some of these once Steve has them cast up and available for private purchase. They should match the ex-Bohemian Troops/now Empress TYW range without any problem, methinks.
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Likewise. Somewhere I've got tucked away the cuirassiers which Paul sculpted for Arsenal Miniatures, now produced by Warlord Games and marketed under their Wars of Religion range. These should be too early, being designed for 1560, but I seem to remember that I once thought they matched reasonably with some ECW cuirassiers I was looking at. I'll have to dig these out and have another look at them.
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Saw this yesterday on the book of faces - looks very exciting, both the figures and the game. As I think I said on FB, I can always find space for another nice unit of cuirassiers. :D
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I have one unit of cuirassier for my Royalists, and really, one unit is all you would need for any ECW battle both sides combined ( lol) but.... these look really nice.
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This is pretty amazing. :)
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That is madness! The kind of madness I totally admire. I really hope to be able to see it… ;D
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They look terrific- I'll be having some!
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I see that there are some size comparisons posted on the website now.
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The photos are not appearing for me, but I sure love this idea! Looking forward to seeing more of it! lol
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The photos are not appearing for me
Yeah, I hyperlinked the images straight from Facebook ergo the tomfoolery on their part.
but I sure love this idea! Looking forward to seeing more of it! lol
I have attached the imaged at the bottom of my original post for those who do not do Facebook, or just didn't want to follow the link I provided ;) lol
Just in case, here they are again......
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I just realised the saddle blanket is sculpted to the horse and the saddle to the rider- intriguing approach.
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Yes, it is interesting. The closest I've seen is with medieval riders sitting on saddles with a high pommel and high back where the pommel and the back are sculpted attached to the rider.
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Might mean those new Wargames Atlantic nags could come into play if you wanted more variety in your horseflesh.
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That is true, depending on how fussy you are about tack.
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The owner has confirmed they are Hicks sculpts and he's agreed to make them available for sale.
EXCELLENT! :)
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Production moulds are apparently in the process of being made as we speak, or so Steve said somewhere on his Warre Game FB page.
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The very spirit of the age.
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Any update on the availability of these figures ?
many thanks
JM
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Not yet.
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Hello Everyone
These Cuirassiers will be part of my Deathride of Gustavus Game at Salute next year
You can follow developments on FB (The WarreGame 17thC)
As I’m sure you all know, commissions are expensive so I’ll be selling some to cover my outlay
The latest news is that the first batch are cast and will be dispatched to me very soon …
More news as I have it
CG
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Are you planning additional miniatures, such as command types ? (there's a dearth of good cuirassier officers out there, as Paul Hicks never sculpted any for Emil Horky's Bohemian Miniatures range - now owned by Empress)
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Are you planning additional miniatures, such as command types ? (there's a dearth of good cuirassier officers out there, as Paul Hicks on never sculpted any for Emil Horky's Bohemian Miniatures range - now owned by Empress)
Not currently - the primary aim is the Deathride Game scheduled for Salute next year - selling figures is to cover my outlay.
I commissioned them because I don’t think commercially available cuirassiers are interesting enuff (despite owning many)
I agree with your comments on officers etc.
as a result of this adventure I’ve started a bit of sculpting myself - so who knows ?
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THE CUIRASSIERS HAVE ARRIVED
If you would like some EMAIL ME at
thewarregame@aol.com
For pricing and ordering info
Please note I am not a business so bear with
Steve
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Excellent! E-mail sent! :)
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Likewise
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Email sent. The figures look amazing, looking forward to seeing them in the "flesh"
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I've just joined the "E-mail sent" club.
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Thanks to all the people showing interest and ordering these cuirassiers.
I’ll be at Reveille in Bristol on Sunday with a WarreGame
I’ll also have supplies of Cuirassiers with me, so you can get a closer look at them.
So if you are planning to visit, drop by and say hello
CG
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Received mine. They are delightful. Looking forward to painting them.
Pretty soon I’m going to have more cuirassiers than ever actually took part in the English Civil War ;) lol
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Received mine. They are delightful. Looking forward to painting them.
Pretty soon I’m going to have more cuirassiers than ever actually took part in the English Civil War ;) lol
It is a this point that you realise you are now collecting for the Thirty Years War! ;D
Congratulations on the new period 8) .
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Mine ordered, they will replace a unit of TYW chaps who will be reflagged as ECW!
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I've been away for a few days but have just got back and I've looked at my figures. I must say that I'm very impressed. They're really nice. The riders are very detailed. They have bent knees and are bent at the pelvis, with a slight bend at the waist, which gives a very authentic looking riding pose. As expected with Paul Hicks sculpts, they're on the smaller side.
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Two posts within a couple of hours will tell you that I'm really quite enthusiastic about these figures. I'd say that the riders will, in my opinion, fit in size-wise with Empress (ex-Bohemian) TYW, Perry ECW and Warlord WoR cuirassiers, which are figures I just happen to have lying around at the moment. I guess that they'll also be OK size-wise with Foundry TYW cuirassiers, figures I also love, although the sculpting style will be a bit different, the Foundry figures having the bigger heads which were very common on figures of the 80s.
Obviously, with mounted figures much of the height is taken up by the horse, and I haven't yet decided whether I'll mount these riders on the Ebob horses they come with, or whether I'll use something else.
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These figures are indeed wonderful!
.......and so is the service👍
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Two posts within a couple of hours will tell you that I'm really quite enthusiastic about these figures. I'd say that the riders will, in my opinion, fit in size-wise with Empress (ex-Bohemian) TYW, Perry ECW and Warlord WoR cuirassiers, which are figures I just happen to have lying around at the moment. I guess that they'll also be OK size-wise with Foundry TYW cuirassiers, figures I also love, although the sculpting style will be a bit different, the Foundry figures having the bigger heads which were very common on figures of the 80s.
Obviously, with mounted figures much of the height is taken up by the horse, and I haven't yet decided whether I'll mount these riders on the Ebob horses they come with, or whether I'll use something else
I just received mine as well. Excellent sculpts. I plan to order some of the Empress (ex Bohemia) command to see how they mix. I'd be curios to see what other horses you end up using as the horse size is usually the biggest issue mixing manufacturers
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I'd be curious too. At the moment, I have no idea. In the past I have used either Perry or Calpe horses. I started out using Perry horses because I really like the sculpts. But I have built up some units on standing horses, and Perry standing horses are surprisingly hard to get hold of. I was drawn to Calpe because they are local to me (a couple of miles away), nice sculpts and they have several poses of standing horse. They are, however, currently unavailable, and will be until at least the New Year. They also have later-style bridle and reins, which I can live with but some couldn't. The unit I plan to build up using the Warre Game figures won't be on standing horses (I don't think it would suit the riders), so maybe I'll look for trotting or cantering horses somewhere for it.
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A preliminary evaluation is that they fit the warlord horses, which have the same saddle blanket sculpting on the horse. So it looks like they could be. Mixed in with the Warlord Cuirassier for for variety.
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Are you planning additional miniatures, such as command types ? (there's a dearth of good cuirassier officers out there, as Paul Hicks on never sculpted any for Emil Horky's Bohemian Miniatures range - now owned by Empress)
Not currently - the primary aim is the Deathride Game scheduled for Salute next year - selling figures is to cover my outlay.
I commissioned them because I don’t think commercially available cuirassiers are interesting enuff (despite owning many)
I agree with your comments on officers etc.
as a result of this adventure I’ve started a bit of sculpting myself - so who knows ?
Mine arrived today, superb figures, I had a spare hand and a lance, now fitted to one of the chaps as a standard bearer.
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A second unit underway, a simple marriage of one of the chaps and the standard from the Warlord set.
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That standard bearer conversion works really nicely, @Nick 👍.
Got my cuirassiers today and I’m really pleased with them.
The riders have a really nice variety of equipment and I like the sword or pistol options.
Comparing with the other ideas in my ‘pile of opportunity’ I think these will mix very nicely. They look a good fit with Warlord, Perry, Eureka, Bohemian/Empress, and 1898.
The horses seem to be based on the same models as the 1898 TYW horses and are the same apart of the the holsters and saddles etc. Horses also fit with Perry and Foundry. The Warlord plastic horses are a bit bigger, as are the Front Rank ‘heavy horse’ that I used for my Bohemian cuirassiers.
I look forward to getting these painted up.
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Very cool project indeed! :o
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The owner has confirmed they are Hicks sculpts and he's agreed to make them available for sale.
Just found this and would certainly be in for a unit or two. They really scream TYW!
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My chaps done, just had to wait for a couple of standards from Maverick models. The standard bearers were simple conversions, the front one using the piece from the Warlord Cavalry set.
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They look fab , Nick 👍
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I finally painted mine :)
More here: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=123765.new#new
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/59/577-290823143541-599232151.jpeg)
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Quite superb :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*