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Offline Mick A

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Irish for Silver Bayonet
« on: January 07, 2022, 11:15:22 PM »
Here is my Irish Rebellion unit for The Silver Bayonet, they may well double up as bandits as well...
Figures by Trent Miniatures.
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Offline Bearwoodman

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2022, 11:26:42 PM »
I like these! I haven't seen these figures before but they look the part and your colour scheme ties them together well. They would work well in the game. An ideas for nation-specific rules/soldier types for Irish rebels?

Offline Iain R

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2022, 11:56:06 PM »
Those character figures look far better painted up than the images on their website would suggest! Great job!
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Offline tikitang

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2022, 12:24:34 AM »
Very nice!

I bought the ten Irish "insurgents with firearms" from that range to be the Bandits.
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Offline Cat

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2022, 12:28:21 AM »
Up the Republic — very nice!
 
Hmm, some Batavian allies would complement them nicely.

Offline Mick A

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2022, 12:29:31 AM »
I like these! I haven't seen these figures before but they look the part and your colour scheme ties them together well. They would work well in the game. An ideas for nation-specific rules/soldier types for Irish rebels?
Thanks  :) I'm just going to use the Spanish options for them as that seems to be along the right lines.

Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2022, 03:21:02 AM »
Great sculpts and your painting brings them to life, loving them!
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Offline MaleGriffin

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2022, 04:46:35 AM »
Fantastic figures! I'd love to see them in action!
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Offline Bloggard

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2022, 06:53:59 PM »
great figures and paint-jobs.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2022, 08:29:09 PM »
Very nicely done Mick! They lend (Wolfe) tone to what would otherwise be a mere vulgar brawl.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

Offline has.been

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2022, 03:46:36 PM »
The Irish,
all their wars were happy,
and all their songs were sad.

Nice idea & nice execution.

Offline Kikuchiyo

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2022, 09:11:34 AM »
these look great and particularly ideal for bandits - how do they scale against Perry?

Offline JollyBob

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2022, 01:57:29 PM »
These do look good, I have picked up a few of the Trent range myself for SB, raggedy irregulars and such.


how do they scale against Perry?

Generally, I would say the Trent figures suffer from Martin Baker's tendency to pumpkin heads and diddy arms so don't work aesthetically with Perry, but for the odd character and from the distance of a table top they would do.
I have one figure that I am mixing with Perry and Brigade figures as he looks like a fat thug in a powdered wig (the character will be a Supernatural Investigator, a kind of Aleister Crowley type).

Offline Kikuchiyo

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2022, 03:47:59 PM »
cool

I was looking at this chap as a scout, his head and hands seem in proportion?


Offline JollyBob

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Re: Irish for Silver Bayonet
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2022, 04:22:05 PM »
Yeah that's a nice one - don't get me wrong, I have loads of Mr Baker's figures and I think they are really characterful, but there is a distinct gradation with them. Some are REALLY nice, and would mix with anything, some (especially rank and file) look a bit rushed out and suffer from the aforementioned big head/little arms thing.

It's absolutely not a deal breaker, but in comparison to Perry for example, the proportions can seem a little off. (Cue fourteen pages of people saying "yeah but real people all look different"!)

Apologies to Mick for the slight derail there, back to praising his lovely Irish ruffians.  :)

 

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