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Author Topic: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!  (Read 68362 times)

Offline Hammers

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #360 on: August 01, 2020, 08:34:45 PM »
You've done exquisit work with the skin tones, Richard. Really.

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #361 on: August 02, 2020, 03:42:04 AM »
Love the orange coats.
 :-*   :-*   :-*
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #362 on: August 02, 2020, 08:00:07 AM »
 

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Although I've tried to avoid too many duplicates in my ECW collection, by the time you get to 350 figures, particularly when hoovering up odd lots indiscriminately off eBay, you do end up with a few.
Here's a Renegade officer, which I now have three examples of


Although I only own just over half of the number of your Renegade/Bicorne ECW collection I also have three of that Renegade command figure and also three of what I presume is the Sergeant figure in the Montero mainly from a couple of eBay lots I've picked up myself over the years. There was originally only one command pack you could get from Renegade iirc although they did bring another out later that I don't think was by Mr Collier featuring some nice figures but alas it seems to be as rare as the proverbial Hens teeth on eBay!
I'm Really enjoying the showcasing of your wonderful collection of ECW miniatures. Are we going to be seeing your Cavalry soon?
« Last Edit: August 02, 2020, 08:04:20 AM by westwaller »

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #363 on: August 02, 2020, 08:38:16 AM »
Thanks :)
I think I’ve shown all the cavalry somewhere before, and there are a few units of horse higher up this thread.
But in a few weeks’ time once I’ve finished the collection (for now!) I’ll photograph and post the whole lot!

Yes, that distinctive Renegade sergeant in the montero is ubiquitous. He’s turned up in every one of five or six lots I’ve bought off eBay over the past few months, usually in multiples. I bought one job lot of 40 figures, and there were four of the bloody things in there! Not my favourite figure within the Renegade and Bicorne ranges to be honest, and evidently others feel the same way to judge by the frequency with which that miniature is offloaded via eBay ;)

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #364 on: August 02, 2020, 08:55:53 AM »
Interesting to see three different excellent interpretations of the same figure.

ECW is one period I’ve never tried...can’t think of a reason why :?


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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #365 on: August 02, 2020, 09:40:43 AM »
A good time to start then Matt.
Once you’ve finished a few hundred more Game of Thrones figures, obvs  lol

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #366 on: August 04, 2020, 02:42:20 PM »
Here's the second of three units recently painted for me by the brilliant Redzed, now based by me: Caleb Brewer's Storming Party - an aggressive folorn hope, first to the breach.

Redzed's a miracle worker. Look at the depth of that red :-*
And the uber-flat mattness of them...
And the faces of course...









This is essentially the Bicorne dragoon command pack (minus the drummer who joined Quarton's Greencoats instead - see somewhere higher up this thread), plus a couple of other figures added to form the storming party. The sergeant with the halberd has had a Front Rank head swapped onto him, 'cos I am frankly sick of that guy in the montero  ::) ;)

These boys look so good, I thought they deserved a little vignette set-up too :)











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Wonderful!

I’ve also used the dismounted dragoons for Forlorn Hope. It’s a shame that Bicorne don’t otherwise have a pack of suitably mixed poses.
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Fantastic! Great figures and I love the vignette photos. From this angle in the first picture it looks like the sergeant with the halberd is knocking- very polite of him to give them an opportunity to surrender civilly :D

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Cracking job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Nice to see your old redoubt getting an airing :-* :-* :-*

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Redzed's job is of top drawer! And your photo staging is super!  :-*
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Wicked cool  :D
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That barbican is quite lovely in itself.

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These are wonderful and the scene-setting is inspirational. Great stuff!
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.23 Sir Hardress Waller's yellowcoats
« Reply #374 on: August 05, 2020, 07:44:22 AM »
A good time to start then Matt.
Once you’ve finished a few hundred more Game of Thrones figures, obvs  lol

Like you said, maybe just a few hundred more Game of Thrones, and then who knows?  lol

That’s a beautiful looking redoubt - scratchbuilt?

Great work by Shaun on the latest additions as well....if I ever win the lottery* I’d get him to paint me a bunch of ECW.

*not because he is pricey (actually I think his rates are v.reasonable) but rather I’d want him to do a whole army  :-*


 

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