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Author Topic: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes  (Read 2441 times)

Offline Chriscornwell

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Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« on: April 03, 2020, 11:05:26 PM »

Offline FierceKitty

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2020, 12:37:33 AM »
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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2020, 07:41:22 AM »
Meh, a mere skirmish force  ;)  :D

Really lovely stuff Chris  :-* :-* :-*

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2020, 01:30:53 PM »
Lovely painting on those Gendarmes.  I guess that you use the 3 firms miniatures in different units given the size of Steel Fist against say the Foundry gendarmes.

Offline Chriscornwell

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2020, 03:19:04 PM »
I’m not going to mix them in the same units, but in different units they are fine, and the difference in size is actually a lot less than I first thought.

Left to right: Perry, Foundry, Eureka, Steel Fist

No problem with Perry and SteelFist together, likewise Foundry with Eureka, or maybe Foundry with SF or Perry, but I wouldn’t put Eureka in with SteelFist or Perry
« Last Edit: April 04, 2020, 03:22:54 PM by Chriscornwell »

Offline HappyChappy439

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2020, 03:35:23 PM »
Excellent work! And thanks for the comparisons between the ranges!

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2020, 04:22:12 PM »
Excellent work! And thanks for the comparisons between the ranges!

Ditto

Offline Charlie_

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2020, 05:23:18 PM »
Very nice, great work.

It's such a shame I think that they aren't all the same scale, as I think both the Foundry and Eureka sculpts look fantastic, and I'd love to see them all mixed together into one unit. Especially as the armour and barding on the Steel Fist sculpts are more on the 'extreme' side of military fashion, it would be nice to mix in the 'plainer' Foundry and Eureka ones in with them.

Nice to see you've got the Steel Fist late medieval knights too, these are only the second painted examples of them I've seen so far.

Offline Tibson

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2020, 12:54:51 AM »
Those Steel Fist horses look like they've been hitting the oats a little too hard.

Offline levied troop

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2020, 06:57:36 AM »
That is some gorgeous work and the range comparison is very useful.
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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2020, 08:28:06 AM »
They are fabulous mate

Offline nikkobourges

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2020, 09:21:07 AM »
Hello,

Impressed by these nice miniatures !!

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Offline Erik

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2020, 06:45:06 AM »
Very impressive cavalry force. Great that you managed to hold back posting until everything was finished. It looks awesome.


Can you by any chance do a group foto of the unit based on the Perry miniatures. I have a box of their knights and I want it to look like gendarms, so inspiration is very welcome.


Cheers
Erik

Offline Chriscornwell

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2020, 08:29:57 AM »
Very impressive cavalry force. Great that you managed to hold back posting until everything was finished. It looks awesome.


Can you by any chance do a group foto of the unit based on the Perry miniatures. I have a box of their knights and I want it to look like gendarms, so inspiration is very welcome.


Cheers
Erik

Thank you, very kind words.
Umm I’m afraid I’m not finished with Gendarmes at all. Probably about halfway. There are 48 figures pictured, in the last couple of days I’ve finished  another 12, but ultimately I want about 120ish
The Perry Plastic set are a bit earlier.  They don’t Have the monstrous plumes and padded coats of the early 16th century Knights so are very different. Here are some I painted as Burgundians

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Re: Gendarmes, lots of gendarmes
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2020, 09:36:32 AM »
Gosh, they are nice.  :-* :-*