Claymore Castings: Early HYW Range

[Hupp n at em]

These look fantastic, and they scale perfectly with the Perry's work (surely not by design  ).  I will definitely look at picking some up, job well done!

[The Dozing Dragon]

Matt is on of my favorite sculptors these days. Some of the pieces he did for the Partizan show freebies were / are classics.

[grant]

Just terrific! 

[Mister Rab]

Those look excellent! I'm just painting up my first Claymore figures (the bill unit deal) and I'm delighted with them; historical accuracy, detail, good poses, and really characterful faces. I'm just having to be careful with the bills as I'm more used to "telegraph pole" spears 

[white knight]

I'd be interested to see how they scale with 90's Peryy Bretonnians. I find the Perry HYW figures too slim to look well with their Bretonnians, but perhaps these are closer.

[rumacara]

White Knight, use the Front rank HYW figures with bretonians.
They mix well.
The trick is how you use bases for them.

[Garanhir]

The first picture seems to be missing something. Shouldn't there be a crows foot or lever to pull the string?

Not all crossbows had to be spanned with a lever or windlass. Especially in the 13th century,  and a little way into the 14th I think, crossbows had a stirrup like the one we see here. Hooks on the belt engaged the string and the crossbow could be spanned with a hefty downward stomp.

EDIT: Thinking about it, it was more common to start kneeling and straighten up than it was to start standing and stamp down.

[gringo]

these sculpts look superb!"

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Ged
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[Cerdic]

Lovely looking figures these! Detail is stunning!

[levied troop]

Been hoping for a good early HYW range to appear, these look to be just what the doctor ordered 

[Paleskin]

Very nice.......but the helmet in the first pic 'bothers' me,something not quite to scale?
Otherwise lovely and will likely end up buying them!