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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Captain Blood on December 21, 2009, 09:34:09 AM
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Some LAFers will recognise these having played with them at BLAM ;)
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Very nice,just read 1759 by Frank Mclynn strangely enough.....love your smooth colours..... :)
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I thought "oooh, lovely tartan" and then I noticed the socks. Wonderful brushwork.
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What's the world coming to, eh? Englishmen using the term French and Indian War now? I suppose it's only right as we have a MacDonalds and Starbucks in every town nowadays. :)
Lovely job. Everybody always fixates on tartan, but it is the work on the hose that really catches my eye.
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Did you let me touch them before or after you entered them in that competition, on that other forum ???
I thought I recognised them :D
Beautiful figures. :-* :-*
But in particular the socks are the things that had my eyes bulging out. :o :o
How you paint that detail is beyond me :'(
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Definately the socks - tremendous piece of work :-* :-*
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Lovely job. Everybody always fixates on tartan, but it is the work on the hose that really catches my eye.
seconded, the hoses are perfect!
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Some LAFers will recognise these having played with them at BLAM ;)
If only I had actually got to play with them properly, instead of having the whole command wiped out by the second turn!
These really are figures of beauty though Richard. I love 'em.
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superbly excellent ,
did you go boss etyed doing the fidly bits I know I would ;)
dodge
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Lovely work. I've painted my fair share of highlanders and the hose is the hardest bit to get right. I finally got wise and bought some of Eureka's laddies in Indian leggings, but you have absolutely nailed these!
I am currently reading "Sons of the Mountains: The Highland Regiments in the French and Indian War, 1756-1767" so I suppose I should add another regiment. What manufacturer sells those beauties?
Aaron
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Superb work, Richard. And I was sure they would make it to the top this time! 8)
Ahhh, those voters ... ;)
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Real nice work Captain! I really like them :-*
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Superb work, Richard. And I was sure they would make it to the top this time! 8)
Ahhh, those voters ... ;)
Thank you Michael :)
No shame, I suppose, in being beaten by Mr Dallimore (again!!!)
(Although I was looking forward to going up against Bugsda in the final - if only so that I could say that I had actually played games with both the groups of figures involved!)
What manufacturer sells those beauties?
Aaron, they are actually Front Rank's 'Government Highlanders' from their 1745 Rebellion range... But I think they pass muster for the F&IW ;)
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Thanks Captain. I am a big fan of Front Rank figures and was just looking at their web site on Friday and wondering if I could use those for F&I. Seeing them painted I agree with you that they work well.
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No shame, I suppose, in being beaten by Mr Dallimore (again!!!)
(Although I was looking forward to going up against Bugsda in the final - if only so that I could say that I had actually played games with both the groups of figures
It was never gonna' happen, my turn for the beating now :'(
Great work Cap'n and like everyone said, excellent socks 8)
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Ahhh, the joy of socks ;)
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So how do you do Tartan and hose like that!!!??? I struggle to keep them lines straight and the gaps even
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If only I had actually got to play with them properly, instead of having the whole command wiped out by the second turn!
They looked attractive enough whilst I was scalping them...
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What's the world coming to, eh? Englishmen using the term French and Indian War now? I suppose it's only right as we have a MacDonalds and Starbucks in every town nowadays. :)
Lovely job. Everybody always fixates on tartan, but it is the work on the hose that really catches my eye.
I have to agree... the hose is outstanding! You will have to give us a nice tutorial on how you painted the hose! I think that might be the best technique I have seen Captain! :-*
Again love how your colors just pop! Your miniatures must really stand out on your tabletop! What company makes these highland miniatures that you used? Are they Redoubt?
Darkoath
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I have to agree... the hose is outstanding! You will have to give us a nice tutorial on how you painted the hose! I think that might be the best technique I have seen Captain! :-*
Again love how your colors just pop! Your miniatures must really stand out on your tabletop! What company makes these highland miniatures that you used? Are they Redoubt?
Darkoath
Ah - thanks chaps.
The figures are Front Rank. I'd have gone for Redoubt, as their highlanders are not bad sculpts (less lumpy than their other F&IW regulars) - only for some reason they flatly refused to sell me a pack of mixed skirmishing poses. You have to buy 6 advancing, 6 firing, 6 charging, 6 standing etc etc. Terribly old fashioned - so screw them.
These Front Rank figures are quite nice, although the hands are a bit vestigal on most of them.
Galloping Major's will be infinitely superior, I'm certain, but alas, they're some way down the sculpting schedule by all accounts ;)
The hose are actually pretty easy to paint, believe it or not.
The plaid is a right pain in the arse though. Took ages.
(Actually, it's a lot more detailed than you can see from the pictures... Maybe I'll do some ultra close-ups at some point ;))
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Apologies for being late to the party.
Can I add my praise for such beautiful looking figures and I can honestly say they look even better in the flesh.
Sorry I had to scalp so many of them in that game, but I seem to remember they gave my Huron a bit of a kicking anyways.
Wonderful stuff.
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These are cracking Cap`n, now Jacobite Rebellion that is something I would love to do one day, tried with Redoubt ECW Highlanders which are nice but a little limited in poses and too early. Again Mike Owen was going to do a range :-* which would have been superb
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Apologies for being late to the party.
So do I, but I can't pass on them : those are so beautiful :-* I think it's probably your best brushwork - or at least, the one I like the much... But i'm little biaised on the era... :) In a more objective way, I think you manage very succefully one of the most tough challenge for a painter : to match the 3 primary colors in a coherent way, and dear, how they match :o :-*
meow,
Matt