Artizan Renaissance Range arrives...

[carlos marighela]

No... the 17th C is the future, both in a relative and philosophical sense.

[oxiana]

Mike sculpted the popular sea dogs and swashbucklers line for Foundry - cut off in its prime.
He's been threatening to return to the Renaissance ever since he started Artizan, and looks like he's finally taken the plunge. Personally, I think his seadogs and swashbucklers are the best figures he's ever sculpted (although many of the Thrilling Tales figures are also right up there). In fact, as I never tire of telling people, his sea dogs are my favourite 28mm wargames figures anywhere ever. So I'm hoping this venture will lead to a few more late Elizabethan types in due course...

Have just spotted this thread. What gorgeous figures!

I have a gang of Mike's Foundry swashbucklers on my desk right now, primed and waiting for paint. They truly are wonderful sculpts and I'm looking forward to getting them dolled up.

I don't think that I need these pikemen, but oh they look so great! But now my painting efforts have gone all 16th century of late, need is a pretty relative term, right?

[BaronVonJ]

Foundry has a nice range but a) very incomplete, just gendarmes and landskects and b) too expensive for me. I need somebody to do a line that fills in all the gaps. Most of my Italian Wars armies are made up of Old Glory as they were the only ones at the time to have all the varied troop types. Now with the Assault Group's growing line and now Artizan, those OG figs might be getting replaced.
-J

[archangel1]

I only have a couple of sets from this period, mostly Aztecs, but I do have the Sea Dog's small gun and crew.  Is that one of Mike's sculpts? If so, I do have one leetle quibble.  How in the nombre de dios is that gunner supposed to stuff that 18pdr shot down that 2pdr(?) bore?    I'm not looking forward to carving the ball away to replace it with a smaller one!

[Captain Blood]

I do have the Sea Dog's small gun and crew.  Is that one of Mike's sculpts? If so, I do have one leetle quibble.  How in the nombre de dios is that gunner supposed to stuff that 18pdr shot down that 2pdr(?) bore?   

The Sea Dog gunners are Mike Owen sculpts (although probably the least good sculpts in the range sadly - they look like they were done in a hurry to me, being not very subtle adaptations of other figures in the Sea Dogs range).

However, it's not Mike's fault that the ball is way too big for the gun, because that pack is a classic Foundry cut-and-shut job.

The gun is the same gun which originally appeared in the Copplestone-sculpted Eldorado adventurers gun and crew pack. So they don't go together because they weren't designed to go together!

Doesn't help you, I know, but worth knowing why 

[Monk]

I love Owens' work and have nearly all the KKBB, Thrilling Tales, Pirates, and many of the Wild West figures.  I even have a bit of WWII stuff awaiting paint.  I'm really hoping he gets to do more outside of WWII, stuff, though.

There's so much out there for World War II, that I can't fathom what gamers for that conflict are looking for, especially for the ETO.  The last five years has seen an explosion in the number of figures for it.  I don't even know that many people into 28mm WWII gaming.  It's costly, space intensive, and well-suited to big events, but not nearly common enough for me to go beyond painting up small groups of German soldiers for pulp gaming.  For gaming that conflict, I stick to 15mm. 

[garyapsledene]

Very nice, not my interest, but the figs are nice and well painted

[Lowtardog]

Fingers crossed on Wars of Religion etc this year from Artizan, I have been finishing of the old Foundry Seadogs and they are cracking minis

[Captain Blood]

Fingers crossed on Wars of Religion etc this year from Artizan, I have been finishing of the old Foundry Seadogs and they are cracking minis

Amen to that, with bells on!

[THE CID]

Hurry up Mike must have more Swiss, then French etc.  Just painted  a load of landsknects they are full of character.  p.s need a Swiss hornblower with devil costume.  THE CID.

[joroas]

Threadomancy................. 

[mweaver]

It happens.

I really like the look of these figures, and need to pick up some packs.  Need to!