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Author Topic: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!  (Read 68354 times)

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #585 on: September 03, 2021, 09:29:55 AM »
Don't forget the Cardinal's Guard :)
I count them as more or less innocent bystanders
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #586 on: September 08, 2021, 09:14:43 PM »
I'm getting more just because. I suspect these figs will make me an ECW gamer eventually.

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #587 on: September 12, 2021, 09:17:51 AM »
I'm getting more just because. I suspect these figs will make me an ECW gamer eventually.

Excellent  ;) lol

Three more freshly painted Bloody Miniatures to add to the collection today, armed with a few of the separate weapons which will be available shortly (details on my Bloody thread here: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130330.new#new) :)






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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #588 on: September 12, 2021, 10:18:27 AM »
Nicely done although I would say that the figure on the right would’ve been better with his musket reversed.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2021, 02:25:04 PM by OSHIROmodels »
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #589 on: September 12, 2021, 11:47:38 AM »
Lovely  :-* :-* :-*

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #590 on: September 12, 2021, 02:17:15 PM »
I bought the first release,and I'll be buying all the future ones.
But I could definitely go for some Border Reiver types,maybe from a few,(several), years earlier

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #591 on: September 15, 2021, 08:23:23 PM »
Captain, marvelous as always.

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #592 on: September 28, 2021, 03:54:25 PM »
Nice work Captain Blood.

Cheers,

CB

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.38. Bloody conversions!
« Reply #593 on: June 11, 2022, 06:36:24 PM »
Just realised I haven't updated this thread with any of my last two Bloody Miniatures releases and other assorted stuff - doh. Ah well, it's all there in my Bloody Miniatures specific ECW/TYW thread, if anyone's interested :)
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130330.0

Meanwhile...
I've been making some hastily thrown together ECW barricades (at the time, exotically termed 'barricadoes') for a specific game I'm planning.

The trouble with many commercially produced barricades, is that the necessity of casting them in resin means they tend to end up as solid-looking, linear lumps rather than more haphazard edifices.
They also seem to usually feature a lot of sandbags, which always look a bit too C20th to me. (I know sandbags or similar were in use down the ages, but neatly stacked banks of sandbags always say WW1 / WW2 / Vietnam to me. Not the English Civil War).

I also wanted my barricadoes to have a period-specific flavour, by including some bits and pieces of weaponry and discarded hats, helmets, buckets, wheels, and so on. So this is my C17th tribute to Clanmac's epic Junktown Scrapyard thread - I've followed his dictum of mercilessly raiding the bits box!

These include a few chopped up bits and pieces of old and new resin (Oshiro gabions), lengths of chain, Rubicon plastic WW2 stowage, a batch of 3D printed barrels (lovely shape, sadly not a great finish when seen close up - too many striations visible ::)), plus various leftover doors, pieces of balsa portraying scavenged timbers, and sacks of stuff made from Green Stuff. The sacks really help to tie each little mini diorama together...

















That's eight 4" sections made and undercoated, providing 3 feet of barricades.

Once I've painted them, I'll post the results :)
 

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.40. Barricadoes WIP
« Reply #594 on: June 11, 2022, 06:56:18 PM »
They look more very tasty and less very hasty. Nice work!

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.40. Barricadoes WIP
« Reply #595 on: June 11, 2022, 07:03:27 PM »
looking good!

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.40. Barricadoes WIP
« Reply #596 on: June 11, 2022, 07:55:27 PM »
Nice work - they certainly look like an accumulation of stuff thrown into the street from doors and windows.
« Last Edit: June 11, 2022, 10:25:00 PM by Silent Invader »
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.40. Barricadoes WIP
« Reply #597 on: June 11, 2022, 08:19:21 PM »
I like these!

Whenever we do siege re-enactments, a few in my regiment always want to have a cheval de frise or two, but I always think they seemed a little later than the ECW….but maybe the 1680’s was when the name stuck.    Still, could give you something else to look at too?

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.40. Barricadoes WIP
« Reply #598 on: June 11, 2022, 08:59:06 PM »
Good work my Captain.

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.40. Barricadoes WIP
« Reply #599 on: June 11, 2022, 09:36:56 PM »
They look great :)
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