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Offline Belisarius

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The Sun King,s Wars
« on: August 04, 2012, 07:33:00 PM »
An occasional series on Louis xiv and the War of the Spainish Succession

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2012, 01:31:23 AM »
Fine painting.
Who makes the figure?
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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2012, 12:55:35 PM »
Cheers Randy, they are Wargames Factory W.S.S. I picked up a box of their cavalry last week and was initially disappointed, the horses are strange looking beasts and seem to have been designed seperately from the troopers. I,ve done the best I can with them and include a few pics to give you an idea of what I mean. Having said that they come with options for officers, dragoons, cuirassier and horse regts. the advantage being that the troops can be used for many different nations.  I hav,ent painted these figures and include them only to illustrate the options available. Your thoughts would be most welcome.

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2012, 02:03:39 PM »
Very good painted! Compliments!
Are they 28 mm?

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2012, 03:11:08 PM »
Benvenuti, yes 28mm, the foot are better figures.

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2012, 04:14:30 PM »
O.K., thank you.
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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2012, 05:06:41 PM »
Belisarius,
I would have to agree with you.
 It does look like the neck and front legs of the horses just don't look right.
Would that be the reason not to buy and paint them, I don't know?
The riders look fine.
I really like the foot.
Very fine painting you have done on all the figures.
« Last Edit: August 06, 2012, 12:13:28 AM by Marine0846 »

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Mysterious Plastic Horses
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2012, 06:46:35 PM »
There have been many, alright 'some,' discussions of these horses in the local club,

The general consensus is

1.) Sculptor hasn't actually seen real, live, horses close up.
2.) Sculptor is working from images of Chinese ponies, and not full sized horses.

The do look a lot like water colors of Chinese ponies... Sort of.

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2012, 09:42:50 PM »
+ 1

These won't do anything to improve my opinion of Wargames Factory WSS plastics : to put it bluntly, I find them utterly dire - and I"m talking about the figures themselves here, not Belisarius' paint job. Wargames Factory has considerably raised the bar lately with its good-looking German and US WW2 sets, but these figures look like 1970's cheap toy soldiers.
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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2012, 10:16:51 PM »
Randy, thanks, I can always rely on you for a thoughtful input. I,ve been doing a bit of reading on the subject and it seems the Dragoon Regiments were mounted on nags, which I take to mean 2nd or 3rd class horse flesh, the Horse and Guards Regts having first pick of mounts. Having said this can we take these as an acceptable depiction of such 2nd class cavalry i.e.  mounted infantry ?. At under £20 for 12 mounted figures, which I count as a full Regt., I consider them a good buy. I,m painting these as wargames figures, not as collectors items. My collection goes back over 30 years and I can assure you I have metal figures  which d,ont stand comparison. My intention was to lay them in front of the members as this is what I would be interested in.

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2012, 10:22:45 PM »
Major, I take both your points especially the the Chinese watercolour prints, I was reminded of Mongol ponies .

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2012, 10:30:16 PM »
Thanks for your input Arthur. ( one man,s meat is another man,s poison ) . I am finding these figures have a certain charm , someone else will do a better job than I can on them, but at least the members have had a squint at them.

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2012, 08:47:22 PM »
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These won't do anything to improve my opinion of Wargames Factory WSS plastics : to put it bluntly, I find them utterly dire - and I"m talking about the figures themselves here, not Belisarius' paint job. Wargames Factory has considerably raised the bar lately with its good-looking German and US WW2 sets, but these figures look like 1970's cheap toy soldiers.

My feelings exactly I'm afraid :(
I suppose the foot figures have a certain Spencer-Smith-like naive charm. But the horses... Dear God...

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2012, 04:02:49 AM »
Hi Belisarius,
I went back and looked at a few photos of Old Glory WSS figures
I painted a number of years ago.
Again, OG are not everyone's cup of tea.
But in mass, for big battles, they look fine.
If I still had the OG figures and wanted to add to the army,
I would purchase the Wargames Factory figures.
I know at times I settle for not top of the line figures,
because they don't match up with figures that I have had for many years.

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Re: The Sun King,s Wars
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2012, 10:03:57 AM »
Yes it,s amazing how fond we can become of an old scruffy unit which perhaps has done sterling service on the tabletop in past battles. I have 2 x battalions of foot and 1x of horse comprising these figures and will now look elsewhere for any subsequent figures, it,s sometimes overlooked that these cheaper plastic figures can draw us into a new period which we may not have touched on before.When these troops are lined up across the table with their colours flying above them I daresay they will cut a brave enough sight.

 

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