Militia Standard Bearers

[Musketeer]

More goodies from Mr Hicks. There is another one in the pack but I didn't have it to hand at the time I took the pic. Should be available for Triples

[M Blakey]

very nice 

[rob_alderman]

Lovely miniatures, but as I said on the SD forum, not to knock Mr.Hicks' sculpting, but why are they always so grumpy?
Not that they should be ecstatic or anything, of course!!! 

[aircav]

but why are they always so grumpy?

It's civil war, would you be happy 

[Paul Hicks]

Waving a rather large standard/target and being shot at always brings out a smile in people:).

[Paul Hicks]

The last figure in the pack is firing a Broom handle Mauser and is sporting a rather niffty sash.

Paul

[rob_alderman]

I meant no offense by the way! It was 2.00AM when I posted that! 

They are wonderful models and I will certainly have to start reading up on this VBCW malarky before the Americans start filling the pages with their ACW2 stuff! 

Weirdly, what I love about your minis is that I can picture how I would paint them, where I would shade and highlight, very easily. Makes me want to go to musketeer and buy some, when it isn't my genre!

So tell us, how do you sculpt SO much? Is it a full-time thing?

[carlos marighela]

Lovely miniatures, but as I said on the SD forum, not to knock Mr.Hicks' sculpting, but why are they always so grumpy?
Not that they should be ecstatic or anything, of course!!! 

Insufficient dietary fibre would be my prognosis. You see a similar look on older wargamers.

[joroas]

You see a similar look on older wargamers.

That's 99% of us then................

[Arlequín]

I didn't even notice the grumpy look, particularly as it's the same one I wear on my face mostly. 

The one on the left captures for me what I'd expect the archetypical VBCW fighter to look like though. That's despite all of the wonderful models that have gone before in the range.

[carlos marighela]

That's 99% of us then................

Speak for yerself, regular as clockwork me. 

[Captain Blood]

NOT wishing to be controversial ( ) and with absolutely no right to comment really, because I'm not into VBCW and not planning to be...
Plus of course the whole thing is make-believe anyway...

But...

I just have a sense that whilst in the historical Spanish Civil War they may have had standard bearers waving gaudy flags for the various political factions, that seems to me culturally a very Latin / south European feature of that particular conflict. Would this have been replicated in Britain? And yes, I know the BUF marched with banners, and a few old school trade unions still march with banners to this day. But marching is a very different thing to being in a firefight.

Englishmen shooting each other in the lanes and villages of Sussex or Shropshire in a counter-factual civil war I can imagine.
But Englishmen conducting these operations whilst running about with great big lairy battleflags in what is (almost) the WW2 era? Seems somewhat improbable - not to mention downright unBritish, dammit 

[Westfalia Chris]

NOT wishing to be controversial ( ) and with absolutely no right to comment really, because I'm not into VBCW and not planning to be...
Plus of course the whole thing is make-believe anyway...

But...

I just have a sense that whilst in the historical Spanish Civil War they may have had standard bearers waving gaudy flags for the various political factions, that seems to me culturally a very Latin / south European feature of that particular conflict. Would this have been replicated in Britain? And yes, I know the BUF marched with banners, and a few old school trade unions still march with banners to this day. But marching is a very different thing to being in a firefight.

Englishmen shooting each other in the lanes and villages of Sussex or Shropshire in a counter-factual civil war I can imagine.
But Englishmen conducting these operations whilst running about with great big lairy battleflags in what is (almost) the WW2 era? Seems somewhat improbable - not to mention downright unBritish, dammit 

I think that flags might not be that bad if you have opposing factions in very similar attire. Apart from that, I would consider it damn unsporting NOT to let your enemy know where you are, although that uncouth fascist and communist rabble certainly doesn't know the proper conduct of gentlemen. A civil war in the first place being rather unsporting, I'd say. Then again, you do have an english-language term for it, unlike coup d'état... so you'd think civil wars to be more commonplace, eh?

[Captain Blood]

Then again, you do have an english-language term for it, unlike coup d'état... so you'd think civil wars to be more commonplace, eh?

Well yes, we've had a few you know - we just got ours out of the way a couple of hundred years before the rest of the world... 

[Plynkes]

I think it would be hard to stop the Daily Mail-reading supporters of Mosley waving their flags.