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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Galloping Major on February 16, 2010, 09:36:05 AM
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While working on more rangers, I've got quite a lot more work in progress under way.
Here's one of the armed settlers that should be appearing before (too) long:
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3092/settler2.jpg)
I thought he may be of interest, especially when viewing some recent threads.
Watch out on the Studio page for more greens etc over the next few days.
We've also added more pictures of models painted by our customers to the Gallery page:
(http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/8995/derek3.jpg)
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Veru nice, looking forward to seeing more fo the settler types. :)
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This is cool, but why is it that every FIW range always produces Indians and Rangers and then settlers or French Marines? I am up to my ears in them, while I can't find hardly any regulars at all. From a business perspective is this because that's what's thought to sell? From my perspective, I am not likely to buy any of those unless they are very unusual or different because I already have more than I know what to do with and am waiting for someone, anyone, to come out with the figs I don't have but need for the theater.
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This is cool, but why is it that every FIW range always produces Indians and Rangers and then settlers or French Marines? I am up to my ears in them, while I can't find hardly any regulars at all. From a business perspective is this because that's what's thought to sell? From my perspective, I am not likely to buy any of those unless they are very unusual or different because I already have more than I know what to do with and am waiting for someone, anyone, to come out with the figs I don't have but need for the theater.
Regulars are under way, but there are lots of bits and pieces that need to be put together, and command packs need to be ready for release if not alongside of, then following on quickly. I plan to start releasing the regulars during this summer, but then, you may have to tell me when to stop. lol
Re Compagnies Franches de la Marine, I will be producing these, but not JUST the poor rag-tags left to themselves in an outpost types!
This is a long term project as I intend to cover the period in the sort of depth that I believe it deserves (cos it's a period I've loved since childhood), so I started out with proper looking Mohawk, because that's what I always wanted myself; then Canadian Militia because it seems they've been pretty much ignored, despite being the most numerous troop type on the French side. The Huron and rangers followed because, it seems they're good along with the other 2 types to get going on small scale back-woods skirmishes, giving distinctive and seriously opposed Native Americans and some of the Europeans they worked most closely with (although Sir William Johnson did take 950 Iroquois with him on the 1759 campaign! So they weren't always used in pocket-sized parties).
The difficult thing about trying to please everyone at the same time is, there seem to be several different sets of requirements out there. There are chaps like yourself who've already made a good start on the period, but are in dire need of decent regulars for both sides (believe me, I empathise), people getting started on the period who want to stage little raids on settlements etc, who having seen the beginnings we've made, want still more interesting Indians and irregular types (and they can get quite vocal too) all the way through to those who chastise us for not producing set piece vignettes yet! :'( ;)
Still, as we can't please everyone..... :D
BUT, I'm working on dollies for regulars, who I really want for my own selfish needs, alongside working on more rangers etc, so that I can keep leap-frog sculpting regulars and others until we have enough regulars to make their first release worthwhile. I do understand and share your impatience, but bear with us and we'll have some interesting stuff for you to see before too long..... no........ honestly ::)
I hope this gives you some hope for the regulars, and you don't see it as platitudes, keep an eye on our little website as well as on this forum in particular, and you'll see things start to happen :)
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Fair enough. Thanks for the response ;)
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This is cool, but why is it that every FIW range always produces Indians and Rangers and then settlers or French Marines? I am up to my ears in them, while I can't find hardly any regulars at all. From a business perspective is this because that's what's thought to sell? From my perspective, I am not likely to buy any of those unless they are very unusual or different because I already have more than I know what to do with and am waiting for someone, anyone, to come out with the figs I don't have but need for the theater.
Axabrax,
Redoubt does FIW regulars and they match Galloping Majors' figures quite nicely.
But frankly I feel that especially in a setting like the FIW you can never have enough different miniatures. Then again I'm one of those sad gamers that would prefer 25 different figures in a 24 man unit ;)
GM hasn't brought out any French Marines yet I believe, but they do have a few beautiful sets of Canadian Militia. Also, I don't think either Redoubt or Conquest ever did specific Mohawks so they are quite different from the more generic Indians of those two companies.
Go get them! You know you want to ;D
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Thanks WillieB :)
Here are a couple more upcoming chaps, another armed settler:
(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/1136/settler1.jpg)
and a ranger from our next pack - "Rangers in Scots Bonnets", more of these to follow:
(http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6774/ranger7.jpg)
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and a ranger from our next pack - "Rangers in Scots Bonnets", more of these to follow:
(http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6774/ranger7.jpg)
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Oooooh lovely :)
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agreed more loveliness ;D
I really like the small details like the drop front trousers with tie on the back of the civilian.
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Straight on the Salute list.
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Straight on the Salute list.
Oops, sorry, we won't be at Salute (haven't started doing shows yet, family circumstances will prevent this for another couple of months or so - in other words through the wargames fair season :().
Please feel free to PM me or e-mail on the site for any details - we do take cheques by post :D
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If you are to impatient to wait for F&IW regulars you can find the appropriate regulars from SYW ranges.
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Those look quite nice! I can't wait! :-*
Darkoath
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I've added a few new ranger greens and newly painted rangers onto the Studio page.
(http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8653/rangers3410.jpg)
More pics of painted models will go up with the Rangers Painting Guide soon....ish ;)
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Lovely stuff, I like the rangers :-*
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(http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/994/rogersdetails.jpg)
Thanks Nick.
Some more pics.
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Its getting to the point that I can't hold out much longer :)
Resistance is dwindling fast lol
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The figures look very inviting, but this is the first time that my interest in the period has been attracted.
What rules are being used for this type of game. Apart from the "Last of the Mohicans" movie, what sources (books, magazines, etc) can anyone suggest?
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My gaming group has just come back to playing F&I after a few years and we are using the "Sharp Practice" rules by the Too Fat Lardies. A fun enjoyable set of rules covering black powder skirmish.
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I've been meaning to d/l 'SP' and check it out.
Do they have special rules for Indians?
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It has rules for Indians of both the North American and sub-continental varieties. I have not yet used it for F&I, but I don't think it would take much tinkering if any at all.
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Yes there are rules for North American Indians, can be either a War Party or Hunting Party, and they have some nice special cards as well.
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I'll have to check them out also... I love their WW1 rules and scenario set! :-*
Darkoath
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I notice from the website, that you will be doing armed settlers in the near future. Will you also be doing women and children sets for the settlers?
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I notice from the website, that you will be doing armed settlers in the near future. Will you also be doing women and children sets for the settlers?
I was going to do women among the armed settlers for defending farm-houses/settlements etc first, then women and children unarmed.
Or would a pack of armed women as well packs of armed settlers be better received, what do you think chaps? I'll have to say right now, whichever way it goes, some will think the other way would have been better ;)
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Armed women are a firm favourite of mine. Bound to sell well ;)
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Also armed children. ;)
"Rescue the captives" seems to be a popular scenario and as well, a small group of armed settlers defending a cabin until the rangers arrive would be a good scenario to play. You could do a "colonel's plucky daughter" figure for a Last of the Mohicans type fight.
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I would like to ask if you (galloppingmajor) has in the future the idea to make some figures for winter campaigns.
most of the little skirmishes and raids were done under deep snow.
it will be very nice to add some figures cladded for the winter , what do you think about?
Piero
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I would vote to keep the settlers seperated... doing packs of armed settlers and seperate packs of unarmed settlers. I would really love to see a set of settler captives! The settlers would have fought in a family unit so an armed pack with adult men and women fighting, and then maybe some women loading, children loading or carrying loaded muskets, etc. A group of only armed men I would call militia instead of settlers...
Darkoath
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I'll buy them anyway :-*
Personally I would prefer armed women, and perhaps even a few armed children, or at least children carrying or loading firearms.
Settler captives also sounds like a splendid idea for smaller skirmishes, but most of us will buy only the one set. Of course if we ALL buy a set it might still be a good seller.
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A pack of captives being led by a warrior or two would be a nice "one off" vignette pack.
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Thanks for the input chaps, more is always appreciated:
I'll buy them anyway :-*
Settler captives also sounds like a splendid idea for smaller skirmishes, but most of us will buy only the one set. Of course if we ALL buy a set it might still be a good seller.
Too right mate, likely number of sales is always something to be borne in mind, as you say, if everyone bought a pack :o :D
Then again, my interest being as deep as it is for this range, once I decide on doing a pack (and I added this one to my mental list a while back) you know I'm just going to have to do them anyway.
A pack of captives being led by a warrior or two would be a nice "one off" vignette pack.
I certainly have had this one in mind recently 8)
Also armed children. ;)
"Rescue the captives" seems to be a popular scenario and as well, a small group of armed settlers defending a cabin until the rangers arrive would be a good scenario to play. You could do a "colonel's plucky daughter" figure for a Last of the Mohicans type fight.
This kind of scenario is just what I have in mind for the armed settlers, along with a few others, just made for a fun game with lots of suspense thrown in.
Plucky ladies with muskets, pistols etc have just got to feature.
I would vote to keep the settlers seperated... doing packs of armed settlers and seperate packs of unarmed settlers. I would really love to see a set of settler captives! The settlers would have fought in a family unit so an armed pack with adult men and women fighting, and then maybe some women loading, children loading or carrying loaded muskets, etc. A group of only armed men I would call militia instead of settlers...
Darkoath
Spot on for my way of looking at it. Armed settlers, unarmed settlers as packs, still can't decide whether the women should be in the same packs, I'm thinking 2 out of 6, or whether people would prefer to buy packs of men or women to control the number. Of course, either way it won't please everyone, so no doubt they'll appear in the order of what takes my fancy most. Maybe a bit of a combination of both routes will make sense.
I'll be doing militia more fully dressed, with coats and more equipment, while most of the settlers will be in shirt sleeves, waistcoats etc. That way they could be intermixed too. Then again:
Armed women are a firm favourite of mine. Bound to sell well ;)
Personally I would prefer armed women, and perhaps even a few armed children, or at least children carrying or loading firearms.
On another subject:
I would like to ask if you (galloppingmajor) has in the future the idea to make some figures for winter campaigns.
most of the little skirmishes and raids were done under deep snow.
it will be very nice to add some figures cladded for the winter , what do you think about?
Piero
Yes Piero, I certainly will be sculpting quite a few in winter clothing, that's the great thing about periods like FIW, hostilities tended to continue on some level no matter how bad the weather became :D
Of course, I've got so much to do at the moment, what with regulars, provincials, highlanders etc., and keeping the wolf from the door with real life stuff, the winter stuff will fit in somewhere.
The great thing about your input guys, is that you're mentioning stuff I've got in mind, which means I can't be that wide of the mark lol and it helps to keep the inspiration going when I hear from you.
Must make time to write that rangers painting guide ::)
Cheers,
Lance
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Also, still writing the painting guide for rangers, which will go up on the site when I finish it. Meanwhile, here are some pics of one of the painted little chaps who'll appear on it:
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2734/runningranger.jpg)
Hope you like the 'uniform', and if you don't recognise it, you soon will :D
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On another subject:
Yes Piero, I certainly will be sculpting quite a few in winter clothing, that's the great thing about periods like FIW, hostilities tended to continue on some level no matter how bad the weather became :D
Of course, I've got so much to do at the moment, what with regulars, provincials, highlanders etc., and keeping the wolf from the door with real life stuff, the winter stuff will fit in somewhere.
The great thing about your input guys, is that you're mentioning stuff I've got in mind, which means I can't be that wide of the mark lol and it helps to keep the inspiration going when I hear from you.
Must make time to write that rangers painting guide ::)
Cheers,
Lance
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great :-* ;D Lance , this is a great news, don't forget to add , if you could, shoe rackets. :-* :-* it will be wonderful
Piero
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Suggestion and link:
Perhaps a French Jesuit priest or 2 and a couple of Christianized Huron parishioners would be an interesting specialty pack?
The movie "Black Robe" is a few decades before the FIW, but involves Indian fighting in the woodlands. Perhaps of interest. Excellent film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robe_%28film%29
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Suggestion and link:
Perhaps a French Jesuit priest or 2 and a couple of Christianized Huron parishioners would be an interesting specialty pack?
The movie "Black Robe" is a few decades before the FIW, but involves Indian fighting in the woodlands. Perhaps of interest. Excellent film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robe_%28film%29
VERY GOOOOOOOOOOOOD ;D ;D ;D
my favourite movie for F&IW
Piero
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Wow, that's one I do have on the back burner, Jesuit priests, but a pack of them would be too many of course, so as you say, maybe 1 or 2 with some of their flock, possibly warriors, or maybe women and kids too. I just hope my eyesight holds out long enough to sculpt all the stuff I want to do lol
I really like black robe too, great film, still have it on VHS, I'll have to get it on DVD sometime.
Talking of DVDs of stories set in colonial North America, (and Indians with captives as we were earlier) I just ordered "Follow the River" (1995 Region 1) from Amazon as it was only £1.98 + postage (another £1.24 or so). I remember watching it on TV a few years ago, and from what I remember it was based on a true story of women and children taken captive from a British colony, a bit hokey and made for TV I seem to remember, but certainly worth risking a couple of quid on. :)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_16?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=follow+the+river&sprefix=follow+the+river
Do any of you have that one?
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I'd say two Jesuits are enough. One in a peaceful pose and one inciting the troops. One of the reasons for Rogers' epic raid on St. Francis was that a particularly fiery Jesuit was attracting a lot of warriors there, after all!
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I'd say two Jesuits are enough. One in a peaceful pose and one inciting the troops.
Yes, I think that's the way to go, any more and it would start to look like Rocky Island (Father Ted) lol
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If you are looking for a LOT of extra work - canoes, whaleboats, yorkboats and crews (Indians, coureurs des bois, colonists) together with piles of beaver pelts and stacks of trade goods.
This would allow scenarios wherein 1 side ambushes another's fur trading haul.......... which after all, was 90% of the underlying cause for all the fighting.
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keeping the wolf from the door with real life stuff
How about a few personalites.... James Wolfe perhaps ?
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If you are looking for a LOT of extra work - canoes, whaleboats, yorkboats and crews (Indians, coureurs des bois, colonists) together with piles of beaver pelts and stacks of trade goods.
This would allow scenarios wherein 1 side ambushes another's fur trading haul.......... which after all, was 90% of the underlying cause for all the fighting.
All in good time ;)
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How about a few personalites.... James Wolfe perhaps ?
I do have some personalities in mind, Wolfe wouldn't be the first, but he's in there all right.
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I hope you'll start with Langlade, Dumas and other like these, expecially some french leaders in native dress ;D ;D ;D
Piero
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They are really nice.
Steve
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[quote author=Galloping Major Talking of DVDs of stories set in colonial North America, (and Indians with captives as we were earlier) I just ordered "Follow the River" (1995 Region 1)...
Do any of you have that one?
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I do now, well, hopefully in a day or so :D
Thanks for the head ups on this one.
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I hope you'll start with Langlade, Dumas and other like these, expecially some french leaders in native dress ;D ;D ;D
Piero
Hi Pierro, Nice suggestions, French officers in native dress for sure.
Steve - glad you like them :)
Barry - you're welcome, my copy arrived, haven't had time to watch it yet.
Cheers,
Lance
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A few pictures of some newly painted Mohawk are on the Studio Page:
(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/387/3mohawknew2.jpg)
My own units only get re-enforced occasionally when I allow myself time to paint some - back to sculpting shortly lol
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Oooh - very nice indeed Lance :-*
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Just watched The Last Of The Mohicans on TV last night. I'm getting motivated. I only have about 25 settlers & a tribe of 20 natives. Need to starting expanding on that.
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Just watched The Last Of The Mohicans on TV last night. I'm getting motivated. I only have about 25 settlers & a tribe of 20 natives. Need to starting expanding on that.
Weeell, I could recommend a great supplier for Mohawk, Huron, Rangers, Canadian Militia (often wrongly referred to as CdeB) ................. loads more to come lol
Thanks for the kind words Keith :)
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I have found a drawing of some french officers in native dress,
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/FIW/S25C-207101413400jpgmarinraidparty.jpg)
on the left
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/FIW/S25C-207101413410indianassembling.jpg)
on the far right with long hairs
could be an idea.
:-* :P
Piero
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Nice :-*
I've seen them before somewhere but i can't remember where, thanks for pointing them out Piero. 8)
Are they by Gary Zaboly?
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Just watched The Last Of The Mohicans on TV last night. I'm getting motivated. I only have about 25 settlers & a tribe of 20 natives. Need to starting expanding on that.
How about Canadian Milice, Mohawk...........
:D
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Nice :-*
I've seen them before somewhere but i can't remember where, thanks for pointing them out Piero. 8)
Are they by Gary Zaboly?
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It certainly has the look of Gary Zaboly to me. ( I like his stuff, bu then you would probably have guessed that already ;))
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Yes Nick, I did kind of thought you might :D 8)
Cheers,
Lance
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Hi
It's, for sure, drawings from Gary Zaboly in "The Annoted and Illustrated JOURNALS of MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS", Purple Mountain Press 2002
Bye
Langlade
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Thanks Langlade (great name by the way!). That book is on my "must have" list!
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Hi
It's, for sure, drawings from Gary Zaboly in "The Annoted and Illustrated JOURNALS of MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS", Purple Mountain Press 2002
Bye
Langlade
I received my copy of this book only yesterday from Amazon and I'm looking forward to reading it having just finished Stephen Brumwell's book, "White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America".
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Thanks Langlade, I knew I'd seen them somewhere, I have that book, among many others so I sometimes forget where I've seen or read things. ::)
I can heartily recommend it to anyone who doesn't already have a copy, probably the best version of Rogers' Diaries of several currently in print, well illustrated with really good additional information - Barry, I think you'll love it :)
You've reminded me, I have a copy of "White Devil" but haven't got round to reading it yet :?
Cheers,
Lance
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Hi
It's, for sure, drawings from Gary Zaboly in "The Annoted and Illustrated JOURNALS of MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS", Purple Mountain Press 2002
Bye
Langlade
correct ;)
and great for your nickname :-*
Piero
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In line with Thorbjorn's current thread, when I was sculpting this settler, I had it in mind (and still do) that I'd use him as a "Dutchman" (whether actually Dutch, German or other) in my own band of settlers, though he could just as easily be one of Sir William Johnson's Irish or Scots tenants, or an Englishman for that matter ;)
(http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1419/settler2a.jpg)
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here some Gallopping Major Iroquois plus some other ...and some intersting background.
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/Wargame/DSCN0399foto.jpg)
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/Wargame/DSCN0398foto.jpg)
well not the better paint :( but anyway
Piero
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Really nice pics Piero, with some good-looking reference material. 8)
I especially like the two chaps with the Brown Besses :D great war-paint.
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I especially like the two chaps with the Brown Besses :D great war-paint.
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I know why you most like them :D
to be honest at the moment your figures looks the better and esaier for me to paint, it's a really pleasure to paint them.
Piero