Red Copper Conquistadors

[AlexanderTheOk]

I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for the conquest of the americas/age of exploration. I’ve painted a ton of Irregular Miniatures’ Spanish Colonial range, and I’m always looking for more to add to my collection. I came across Red Copper’s kickstarter earlier this week and decided to pull the trigger.

I printed these out at 100% and they are much larger than typical 15mm. Probably closer to 20mm. I’ll continue to post more pictures as I paint them up. Still need a few highlights but they have nice details.

[LouieN]

Wonferful figures and painting. 

[mikedemana]

Love the guy with the map! Can’t you scale up or down the prints to match your other figs?

Mike Demana

[AlexanderTheOk]

When I scaled them down, they looked a bit skinny compared to my other figures. I could potentially add an offset in mesh mixer to make them more heroic looking.

[fred]

Nice figures, yes, you might need to scale them slightly differently in each axis to match exisitng metal figs.

[AlexanderTheOk]

In an effort to match them up with my other figures, I rescaled to 81% (figure brow was lined up with 15mm mark on a ruler). I also added a .1 mesh offset to give a more heroic look and added a circular base. Hopefully I can paint these up tonight.

[AlexanderTheOk]

It’s a subtle difference but I think it will be more noticeable when painted.

[fred]

I find it’s often the overall bulk of figures, as much as the height that makes them look right together on the table.

Hopefully these tweaks work against the metal figures - and once you have worked them out, they will be good for all the ones from this range.

[AlexanderTheOk]

For sure. There are some wonderful models included - their Inca and Inca rebellion figures are particularly interesting. Not sure of any manufacturers with Inca arquebusiers currently!

[AlexanderTheOk]

Comparison to the Khurasan colonials. I think these will match up nicely!

[fred]

They look pretty close to the metals now.

I’d not heard of Red Copper before - will try and remember them, if I ever get round to painting up my 12mm conquistadors and natives.

[OB]

They do.

I'll add for Inca fanciers I have that Khurasan figure. He and his fellows match the Essex 15mm Inca range. Meaning Red Copper at this scale would do so too.

Very impressive.

[AlexanderTheOk]

It only took three months but cleaning out the garage inspired me to print out some more characters to round out my Spanish colonials. I was planning on using irregular wars but now I’m contemplating… thoughts?

I plan on having some “civilian bases” to reside in the town (maybe an objective for marauding elizabethans) one of the governor, his high maintenance daughter, and a church official. The others will be miscellaneous camp followers so to speak.

[fred]

I'm a big fan of Irregular Wars. Haven't (yet) used them for this period / location. But as a ruleset they are very much designed for this kind of asymmetric and fairly small scale battles. 

[AlexanderTheOk]

Made some good progress tonight! I’m quite pleased with how the “Governor” turned out.