Looking for ECW archers

[alone_withmyaxe]

I am trying to find a set of archers in uniform or in civvies dating around the english civil war or the 30 years war has any one got any suggestions?

Thanks in advance everyone!

[OSHIROmodels]

Tough one 

Try some of the Border Reiver ranges as they might yield something passable as I don't think you'd be able to convert ECW ranges that easily.

cheers

James

[von Lucky]

Yeah, not easy.

Eureka Miniatures has a few '17th Century Scottish Musketeer with bow':
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_731&products_id=9948

I guess there's the possibility of kit-bashing some Perry WotR and Warlord ECW kits.

It will leave you having to kit-bash some medieval types with muskets though...

[Conquistador]

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Eureka Miniatures has a few '17th Century Scottish Musketeer with bow':
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_731&products_id=9948

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Wow, that is a figure I have never noticed before... very unique.

Gracias,

Glenn

[alone_withmyaxe]

Thanks everyone, This is a tough category to source, as the musket had taken over by then.

Border Reivers are a good shout and I will look in to see what is out there. Also Scots , there are a few from warlord I might get.



Any civilians of the time with bows or able to be converted would also suit my purposes.

Cheers again everyone

[von Lucky]

Looking through the FoG:R book on the TYW/ECW, the only archers are either the Scots/Confederate Irish "Redshanks" already mentioned, Eastern European mounted archers, and "ill equipped northern levies" in the Early Caroline English list.

TAG suggests Tudor archers:
http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/pages/page.php?Early-Caroline-English-203

[whiskey priest]

Bicorne do a variety of highland archers http://www.bicorne.net/catalog/index.php?cPath=292_1_30_43_47&osCsid=9aa5b1bcc483797307ed53ae23d05267
and there is also the foundry swashbuckler archers http://wargamesfoundry.com/our-ranges/eldorado-and-swashbucklers/seadogs-and-mercenaries-collection-bcsb002/

[Hobbit]

IF (and it is a VERY BIG if) you can get hold of them the Graven Images Border Reiver figures sculpted by the late Jim Bowen include quite a few archers. These were marketed by Monolith Designs for a while (DON'T try to go onto their website as it now seems to just host malicious code) and the current whereabouts of the molds is, as far as I'm aware, unknown. They are lovely figures though and well worth looking out for on Ebay.

Redoubt include a few archers in their ECW Scots highlander range. Redoubt's quality varies hugely from figure to figure though.

The old Vendel Miniatures range also includes some Elizabethan archers: http://www.sgmm.biz/R16-English-Longbowmen_p_439.html

[Cory]

I've put together a few using Warlord plastic pikemen and swapping out hands with old Bretonnian plastic archers to get "A double Armed Man".

[alone_withmyaxe]

I've put together a few using Warlord plastic pikemen and swapping out hands with old Bretonnian plastic archers to get "A double Armed Man".

That is cool, got any pics?

[Cory]

No, nor do I have the figures either. They were a hurried conversion for a friend's game.

[Lowtardog]

Only scots ranges I have seen have archers.

Foundry do a pack of Tudor swashbuckling archers but their kit is too early really

[Hu Rhu]

Have you thought about converting the Warlord plastic ECW figures by using Perry plastic WOTR Archer arms.  It shouldn't be too difficult to create what you need.

[alone_withmyaxe]

Have you thought about converting the Warlord plastic ECW figures by using Perry plastic WOTR Archer arms.  It shouldn't be too difficult to create what you need.

That is not a bad shout!

I will look in to that.

[The Gray Ghost]

What about kitbashing some GW Empire militia?