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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on November 15, 2013, 10:20:29 AM
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Nationalist cavalry released, with one new rider added, but with new improved horses.
Note that these packs can be purchased in a unit deal.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/CAV5_zps92dc7519.jpg) (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Eaglstone/media/CAV5_zps92dc7519.jpg.html)
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/SCWCAV_ALL_zps68ed1981.jpg) (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Eaglstone/media/SCWCAV_ALL_zps68ed1981.jpg.html)
Regards,
Paul
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... and there was I thinking you had forgotten you had an SCW range. ;)
Very nice figures! :)
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Where can the deal be found on the empress website, didn't found it.
Cheers
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And there i was thinking that i might shelve my SCW project.
Damn :)
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We have quite a lot of new releases for the SCW coming out in the next few months. ;)
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Wonderful sculpts Paul,
Consider these bought.
Any chance you could give us a brief description of the likely releases for the SCW...that would be most appreciated.
;)
...simply the best SCW range sculpted. Outstanding.
Cheers
Happy Wanderer
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have the riders been redone too?
the old pictures were not that conclusive to allow comparison very well
I recognize the officer, bugler and flagbearer, but apart from that only a variation with the version gorillo with rifle butt rested on thigh?
since there would be one additional rider with gorillo by numbers?
Please, one more thing - could You advise which of the infantry packs would be suitable as the dismounted riders please?
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We have quite a lot of new releases for the SCW coming out in the next few months. ;)
This is GOOD news, VERY GOOD!
I hope the defenders of the republic can expect some new troops too...
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Now this is pretty cool
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Amazing!!!!!!!!
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Would love to see a Hicksy sculpt of Orwell and Hemingway! >:D
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I'd like to see some dismounted cavalry to go with these. :)
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Dismounted cavalry would be an excellent idea given that rule sets like Chain of Command can incorporate both mounted and dismounted sections on-table.
Dismounted cavalry please!
Cheers
Happy Wanderer
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Great models!
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Dismounted cavalry is a great idea, including horse holder.
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would it not be easier to combine already available figures into the dismounted cavalry packs? I recall even the horse-holder
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I think it sends the wrong message that the smokers get to hold the horses. ;)
(http://theminiaturespage.com/news/pics/2010/may/755715b.jpg)
Otherwise none of the range, barring an officer or two, are wearing riding boots.
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(http://www.46680.mrsite.com/USERIMAGES/FAL3.JPG)
(http://www.46680.mrsite.com/USERIMAGES/LEG3.JPG)
I am anything but a SCW uniform specialist, but this footwear does not qualify as chaps or some similar kind of crues-wear?
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Where do I start? Only the Foreign Legion could have beards in the Spanish Army (and who used British style ammunition pouches in any case). The boot or leather gaiter wearing figures are all officers and cavalry did not wear 'puttees'. The legwear which does look like riding breeches are in fact the standard infantry uniform trousers, called 'Granadero'.
(http://pictures2.todocoleccion.net/tc/2010/09/28/21797112.jpg)
I'll admit some conversion wouldn't be difficult, but as I'm going to be throwing money at Empress to buy the figures to convert anyway, why not have Empress share the load by making some actual dismounted cavalry.
;)
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that was the detailed info I was squinting at ;)
You are right, the question is when they can be released...
But if You buy nationalist infantry You can use them as stand-ins anytime, until the real ones arrive.
But while I am at the well - I saw some pictures with mounted regulares and carlists once, or were they from a different period?
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No from the same period. There were mounted Requetés, Falangists, Moros, Popular Militia, Guardia Civil, Asaltos and Carabineros. Seville's Policia Local also raised a volunteer unit, as did some Andalucian landowners, both of which looked somewhat like Mexican Bandidos in a Hollywood Western or Argentine Gauchos.
The only faction who did not have cavalry (or more correctly mounted infantry in some cases), were the Italians and even then some of the Spanish formations were issued with Italian equipment, so pretty much looked like an Italian cavalry unit.
The depth of variety in the GCE is somewhat understated. :)
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it should be the dream setting for every Miniature Wargamer.
Unsurprisingly, VBCW must then be the projection of SCW to the british dominance in miniature wargaming....
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Nah, SCW for me ..
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Unsurprisingly, VBCW must then be the projection of SCW to the british dominance in miniature wargaming....
You may have a point there actually... I've always described it as SCW with appalling weather. ;)
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and the advantage that it never happened.....
clean historical wargaming
I believe I know understand what VBCW is about - THX for the insight. :-I
So, there really should be dismounted nationalist cavalry, but I'd fancy some regulares cavalry as well
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and the advantage that it never happened.....
clean historical wargaming
I believe I know understand what VBCW is about - THX for the insight. :-I
So, there really should be dismounted nationalist cavalry, but I'd fancy some regulares cavalry as well
To be fair, some of VBCW is about making use of vehicles which never saw battle in the real world, some of it in that it is politically neutral, as it largely involves factions which no longer exist - bear in mind that in modern Spain, every one of the political factions that took part in the SCW are all alive and well.
With VBCW you can write out the most unpleasant parts of its potential history, play your games like a Jeeves and Wooster, or Biggles adventure, safe in the knowledge that the only thing hurt is the losing players ego. With SCW, I have passed along streets which I have also seen strewn with bodies in photos.
Any fictional '30s Civil conflict invites comparison with the SCW and how the VBCW develops is fundamentally different, so my calling it SCW with heavy rain is quite unfair.
;)
Anyway...
The variations in SCW figures have yet to be fully exploited and indeed Regulares cavalry are indeed attractive.
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We have quite a lot of new releases for the SCW coming out in the next few months. ;)
Any news about the new SCW releases. I'm eager to paint a SCW Platoon for Bolt Action.
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...or Biggles adventure...
Biggles was actually accidentally involved in the Spanish Civil War in the books. As I recall he was pretty neutral, and both sides are treated as bad guys (they are all foreigners, after all). :)
The adventure ends when Biggles, Ginger and Algy make a daring escape from one of Franco's POW camps, steal a plane and fly to France.
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Dismounted cavalry is a great idea, including horse holder.
Yes they are! How about one for the Boers in the AZW range then? ;)
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I think they would need to sack me first Yankeepedler and get a proper sculptor first:)
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In my best Lord Sugar voice;
"Paul Hicks your sacked."
Ooh I enjoyed that. You can come back now Mr Hicks we love you really lol
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I think they would need to sack me first Yankeepedler and get a proper sculptor first:)
Much as I like your work Paul I think the Dads Army figures are poor likenesses of the actors in the roles. An honest opinion and I'm not the only one. Did you enjoy your visit to Matt the other week?
David
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Much as I like your work Paul I think the Dads Army figures are poor likenesses of the actors in the roles. An honest opinion and I'm not the only one. Did you enjoy your visit to Matt the other week?
David
How did this cross over threads by the way?
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Would love to see a Hicksy sculpt of Orwell and Hemingway! >:D
This suggestion is a stoke of genius! Any chance of this actually happening?
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not a bad idea
SCW wise however I'd rather see Porco Rosso alias Marco Pagot meeting Corto Maltese
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This suggestion is a stoke of genius! Any chance of this actually happening?
I'd buy those!
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Following my recent course of making comments on things I know nothing about, I imagine that sculpting a 'likeness' of a specific individual is a whole different ball game to sculpting just a generic 'face'.
But anyway... 'Home Guard' is somewhat removed from SCW, even with my usual laxity on topic drift matters. :)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-aa70vtNBlj4/UuuFVxTuwcI/AAAAAAAAQn0/zWPWu8d5pI4/w709-h493-no/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-84600-0001%252C_Ivens_und_Hemingway_bei_Ludwig_Renn%252C_Chef_der_XI._Internationalen_Brigaden.jpg)
Hemmingway (and perhaps a cameraman) would be kind of cool.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kM_h9BbiixQ/UuuGXRD73TI/AAAAAAAAQoE/4wmnNfGXtrM/w449-h327-no/digest20014_jacobs1.jpg)
From pictures I've seen of George Orwell, I think Mr Hicks sculpted his real face in any case. ;)
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Artizan have an Orwell figure.
(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/img1290.jpg)
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Looks like Papa H to me ... ;)
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Artizan have an Orwell figure.
Looks like Papa H to me ... ;)
Oddly he does bear a remarkable resemblance to Hemingway and looks too well-fed to be Orwell for my mind. Cracking figure though regardless.
But we're drifting again... must try harder to stay on topic! ;)