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Author Topic: (Commercial) New Steel Fist 15mm English civil war sculpts now on Kickstarter  (Read 12050 times)

Offline Sculptorton

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 23 nov
« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2019, 03:16:36 PM »
Thanks again for the support

I’m not sure yet exactly when the launch will be but they are coming on.

These are extremely good - if I didn't have cabinets full of 2nd Generation Minifigs for this conflict, I would be sticking my hand into my pocket and pulling out my wallet already!

One small point, the raised foreleg on the trooper's horse (top of this page)- that is not a natural leg position for a horse, I'm afraid (Blue Moon also have a "goose-stepping" horse, but with the other foreleg).  Otherwise, the horses are excellent, which bodes well for you - the biggest downfall of new ranges, in 15mm or 25/28mm, is that the manufacturer releases lots of decent infantry, but then you either have to wait ages for the cavalry, and/or when it does appear, the horses are often a let-down and ruin the range (Blue Moon is an example of this - their horses look like they are in a Fosse dance troop!).
Thanks for your comments and advice, I took the pose from this picture it is just between the movement on two of them but I’m not an expert on the way horses were ridden in the period.
I may yet adjust that.



Offline Sculptorton

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 23 nov
« Reply #31 on: December 17, 2019, 03:23:56 PM »
Here is a preview of a pikeman for the range.

Offline Radar

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2019, 03:40:13 PM »
He's nice. Any chance of a picture of him with a coin for scale?

Will you be doing pikemen with tassets, and unarmoured too?
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Offline bergschotten

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2019, 03:41:48 PM »
These are fantastic figures and tempting enough to bring me back to 15mm... cannot wait for the kickstarter. 

Stephen

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2019, 04:03:03 PM »
OK as another person with a very large ECW collection, but a sucker for more figs... how do they compare size wise with Essex and old glory 15's? I have a smattering of others but my collection is mostly 20+ years old now. :)

They look nice figs so far.

For the KS I would recommend a side by side comparisons photo if possible. :) A bit of difference is fine though, as long as they are not too far off - like some of the xyston monsters in a couple of their ranges.
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Offline Sculptorton

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2019, 04:35:27 PM »
Thanks for the support


He's nice. Any chance of a picture of him with a coin for scale?

Will you be doing pikemen with tassets, and unarmoured too?

OK as another person with a very large ECW collection, but a sucker for more figs... how do they compare size wise with Essex and old glory 15's? I have a smattering of others but my collection is mostly 20+ years old now. :)

They look nice figs so far.

For the KS I would recommend a side by side comparisons photo if possible. :) A bit of difference is fine though, as long as they are not too far off - like some of the xyston monsters in a couple of their ranges.

Here is a pic next to a piece of ruler the black spot is 15mm

Offline Sculptorton

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2019, 04:40:05 PM »
Also yes I will make the first pike without tassets  and then add tassets to the same figures

Offline Radar

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #37 on: December 17, 2019, 05:14:46 PM »
Thanks for adding a reference.

Offline Atheling

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #38 on: December 17, 2019, 07:36:39 PM »
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Offline GrahamC

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #39 on: December 17, 2019, 09:37:42 PM »
Well that's just confirmed it. Despite having a fairly large ECW collection it's definitely going to grow with these new pieces

Offline painterman

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #40 on: December 19, 2019, 09:07:27 PM »
Great pose, proportions and movement!!

Offline Baron von Wreckedoften

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 23 nov
« Reply #41 on: December 22, 2019, 04:58:25 PM »
Thanks for your comments and advice, I took the pose from this picture it is just between the movement on two of them but I’m not an expert on the way horses were ridden in the period.
I may yet adjust that.

The straightness of the leg itself is ok, but the leg needs to not come up quite so high - anything even close to horizontal looks like the horse is going to do itself a mischief, so maybe angle it down a little?  As I said, the other horse poses look really good.
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Offline tom_aargau

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #42 on: December 24, 2019, 10:54:31 AM »
Amazing work and detail, especially at that scale.
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...turn two points to port.

Offline Sculptorton

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpt 17 December
« Reply #43 on: January 05, 2020, 04:02:28 PM »
Thanks again for all the support and sorry for the long period between posting.
Here are three more royalist horse.
The infantry dollies are well developed now and I will be starting to show more foot soon!
The straightness of the leg itself is ok, but the leg needs to not come up quite so high - anything even close to horizontal looks like the horse is going to do itself a mischief, so maybe angle it down a little?  As I said, the other horse poses look really good.
Thanks for that I quite agree.

Offline Atheling

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Re: New 15mm English civil war by Oliver James new sculpts 5th January
« Reply #44 on: January 05, 2020, 04:21:00 PM »
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