Author Topic: TYW Imperial Dragoons (Read 9394 times)

Atheling · « **Reply #30 on:** April 18, 2020, 05:30:15 PM »

Quote from: Paul Richardson on April 18, 2020, 02:50:09 PM

Sorry, I'm hopeless with this sort of thing. This was supposed to be the second photo attached to the previous post.

More utterly stunning conversions and beautifully rendered brushwork

Quote from: Paul Richardson on April 18, 2020, 02:46:52 PM

Many thanks, Darrell.

Here are a few more. You'll see that the dragoon in the second photo is English.

Great to see the "Agincourt salute" did not die out post HYW

Captain Blood · « **Reply #31 on:** April 18, 2020, 06:13:20 PM »

Sumptuous Paul. How many of these do you have in your collection?

Paul Richardson · « **Reply #32 on:** April 18, 2020, 08:05:31 PM »

I honestly don't know, Richard, but I'll have a count up when I can.

This unit is built up exclusively of conversions but most of the units in my collection are a mixture of conversions and figures straight out of the packet. Having a unit exclusively of conversions is a slow and expensive way of going about it, as you might imagine, but you do end up with something that's unique and to your own taste, if not to everyone's. I started along the route of commissioning sculptors to convert figures for me after I found Phil Olley's Breitenfeld Blog on the web. Phil's wonderful TYW collection included some marvellous conversions by Brian Rigelsford, and i commissioned Brian myself. When Brian dropped out of the hobby I found replacement sculptors and my collection grows slowly each year. The trouble is, it's a bit like drinking bottles of wine. You can drink a £5 bottle and be perfectly happy with it, but once you drink a £10 bottle a £5 bottle just isn't good enough. Now, whenever I buy figures, I see problems with them and I feel that I need to have them converted to make them fit better into the units I'm building....... But it does mean that if you see, say, a Napoleonic figure and you think 'that would look great in my unit. If only it was TYW' then you can probably have it converted into a TYW figure.

Paul Richardson · « **Reply #33 on:** April 19, 2020, 11:43:26 AM »

Richard: I've had a quick count up. Apart from the dragoons, I have 268 figures on foot and 116 mounted figures. This includes non-combatants of various sorts. There are also various assorted cannons, carriages, litters, mules and a pig. Most are painted by Andrew Taylor but Darren Linington has painted one cavalry unit and Kevin has, as you know, painted the dragoons.

I've got planned another infantry unit (made up of 1898 miniatures figures), another unit of mounted arquebusiers and another unit of cuirassiers. Unless someone brings out some figures I can't ignore I'll probably then move on to some Protestants to fight them, but I'm not sure who that enemy should be. I had originally intended that it should be a Swedish army, but I'm finding Swedish infantry in particular quite problematic to source, so I may only decide once I've finished the Catholics.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #34 on:** April 19, 2020, 01:36:21 PM »

Well you’re using some of the best painters in the business. That must be one heck of a collection

Paul Richardson · « **Reply #35 on:** April 19, 2020, 04:57:45 PM »

Well, it's certainly cost a heck of a lot of money per figure.

I suspect, to be honest, it wouldn't be to everyone's taste because there isn't a figure in it which is in a combat pose.

Anyway, here are the last 3 musket-armed dragoons. Pike-armed dragoons, sergeants and officers to follow.