Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!

[Silent Invader]

Loving the photos - especially the scenic shots 

[NurgleHH]

Wonderful work!!!!!

[AKULA]

Beautiful setup and figures

 

[Bloggard]

the bee's knees. Sumptuous.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks fellas

Cracking job Richard
Liking the bridge as well, great model

Cheers Colin. It's the Forgeworld timber bridge, long OOP, that I bought from Dean about 10 years ago! It sat in its box for a decade, until I finally thought a few months ago that it would make a good centrepiece for an ECW battlefield - and indeed several others for that matter. So there it is, done, painted, and mounted on its own section of river - at last

[Roo]

Simply lovely!

[THE CID]

You're a first class swine Richard, just as I try and wean myself off the ECW you put more of these lush photos on here. Damm you. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[BaronVonJ]

Quit inspiring me to switch projects!

[Atheling]

Zoiks!!! 

That is one amazing set up Richard 

I dare say it's right up there with some of the very fine display games one sees at Salute and Partizan. And it's your home set up!! 

[Armstrong47]

Absolutely fantastic thread. Brilliant painting and scenics.
Really inspiring me to get back into my first wargaming love ECW.
I've bought a few packs of the Empress figures and love the detail and crispness of the casting,and their equipment/artillery packs are superb.
Does anyone have any opinions on how they compare with Renegade minis,and if Paul from Empress is reading,are there any plans to start producing Scots Covenanters and Highlanders/Irish any time soon?

Thanks,
Andy

[Captain Blood]

Absolutely fantastic thread. Brilliant painting and scenics.
Really inspiring me to get back into my first wargaming love ECW.
I've bought a few packs of the Empress figures and love the detail and crispness of the casting,and their equipment/artillery packs are superb.
Does anyone have any opinions on how they compare with Renegade minis,and if Paul from Empress is reading,are there any plans to start producing Scots Covenanters and Highlanders/Irish any time soon?

Thanks,
Andy

Thanks Andy. Glad you like them
ECW was my first wargaming love too. First metal wargames figures I ever bought were three Hinchliffe ECW musketeers, an officer and a drummer, circa 1974! I have built and sold at least two large ECW collections in the intervening decades (one in 15mm). This is my third! (And I'm keeping it!)

Size wise, the Empress ECW figures are around the same height as the Renegade / Bicorne ECW ranges, although slimmer in stature. The style is rather different however. The posing of the Empress figures is a little more static, and the detail in the style of sculpting is quite shallow. Personally I found them difficult to get on with, and with a quite different look to my existing Renegade and Bicorne figures. But some people are less fussy than me about such things. Which is fair enough.

[Armstrong47]

Thanks Andy. Glad you like them
ECW was my first wargaming love too. First metal wargames figures I ever bought were three Hinchliffe ECW musketeers, an officer and a drummer, circa 1974! I have built and sold at least two large ECW collections in the intervening decades (one in 15mm). This is my third! (And I'm keeping it!)

Size wise, the Empress ECW figures are around the same height as the Renegade / Bicorne ECW ranges, although slimmer in stature. The style is rather different however. The posing of the Empress figures is a little more static, and the detail in the style of sculpting is quite shallow. Personally I found them difficult to get on with, and with a quite different look to my existing Renegade and Bicorne figures. But some people are less fussy than me about such things. Which is fair enough.

My first ECW armies were 15mm Peter Laing figures. Bought and repainted depending on what armies were required over 35 years ago,in the halcyon days before I discovered girls and the only things that mattered were "playing with toy soldiers",and cricket!!
I'm going to purchase some Renegade figures,get them painted and see if I can mix them with the Empress figures.
.
Cheers,
Andy

[Armstrong47]

My first ECW armies were 15mm Peter Laing figures. Bought and repainted depending on what armies were required over 35 years ago,in the halcyon days before I discovered girls and the only things that mattered were "playing with toy soldiers",and cricket!!
I'm going to purchase some Renegade figures,get them painted and see if I can mix them with the Empress figures.
.
Cheers,
And

Just as an aside my first ever 25/28mm wargames figures were Hinchcliffe
I saved up for about 6 months,in 1979, and then went to their factory shop in Meltham with my father and bought 100 Muscovite streltsy.
They cost £17,and I haven't the slightest idea what happened to them!!

Andy

[Ray Rivers]

Just as an aside my first ever 25/28mm wargames figures were Hinchcliffe

My first 25mm army was Hinchcliffe Romans.

Not to derail the thread...

Damn Richard, that is a beautiful set-up of terrain and miniatures you got there! 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks chaps

My first ECW armies were 15mm Peter Laing figures. Bought and repainted depending on what armies were required over 35 years ago,in the halcyon days before I discovered girls and the only things that mattered were "playing with toy soldiers",and cricket!!
I'm going to purchase some Renegade figures,get them painted and see if I can mix them with the Empress figures.
.
Cheers,
Andy

Ah yes, I had a Peter Laing Norman army at around the same time. They were pretty crude little figures in retrospect, but had a certain naive charm. They were also tiny as I recall. 'True' 15mm. Probably closer to what passes for 10mm - 12mm today.

You may have some difficulty getting hold of Renegade figures, Andy, since that business has gone into one of its periodic shutdowns over the last couple of years. Will they ever be back? Who knows. It's not the first time they have suspended trading for an extended period. A strange way of carrying on, but there you go... I guess people have other things they need to do in their lives at certain times...
There is a fairly regular supply of Renegade ECW figures flowing through eBay, including from one seller who seems to be working his way through a large stock, 16 figures at a time. He's shifted a good couple of hundred figures this way over the last few months, but the hammer prices swing about widely. I bought a couple of his lots early on at £11 or £12 each (for 16 figures). Since then, I've seen similar lots reach almost £40
Rarity value now, I guess.
It may be better to buy painted lots which come up every so often, and repaint them. Sometimes, if the painting is sufficiently awful, they're not that expensive.

The Bicorne Miniatures ECW range is still very much available.
Worth checking out this thread, however, for a few words of warning on that: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=76749.30