Renegade vs. GreatWar

[NurgleHH]

Hi,
i want to order some WWI-Figs. I like Renegade and Greatwar. Did someone compare the Size?

[RJ]

Ive gone with Renegade for my WW1 antics, mainly because they have the "any pack for £6" deal on right now 

I like the sculpts alot but some may find them "chunky".

[Plynkes]

I've taken a comparison shot, but right now Photobucket are doing site maintenance or something. As soon as they stop playing silly buggers I'll post the pic.

[Poliorketes]

Funny, yesterday I did a comparison pic for the german sweetwater forum.
I wouldn't mix them in units, as the GWMs are slimmer. The height is OK, though. In my opinion renegade work best with Copplestone and Brigade (except for late war germans).

From left to right: Copplestone, GWM, Brigade Games, Renegade, Renegade

[Orctrader]

The height is OK, though. In my opinion renegade work best with Copplestone and Brigade (except for late war germans).

Why not the late war Germans?  (I was going to buy some renegade.)

[Plynkes]

Here's my pic (finally):


The Renegade ones are a little chubbier, but I don't really think there's all that much in it. I have no problems using them together.

Edit: The GWM chap looks shorter because he is running and leaning forward as he does so. On reflection it isn't the best pic to compare by, soz.

[Poliorketes]

The height is OK, though. In my opinion renegade work best with Copplestone and Brigade (except for late war germans).

Why not the late war Germans?  (I was going to buy some renegade.)

The size is right, but in my opinion the steel helmets won't do. While GWM and Renegade helmets look rather similar, the Brigade ones look completely different.

[Orctrader]

The height is OK, though. In my opinion renegade work best with Copplestone and Brigade (except for late war germans).

Why not the late war Germans?  (I was going to buy some renegade.)

The size is right, but in my opinion the steel helmets won't do. While GWM and Renegade helmets look rather similar, the Brigade ones look completely different.

Thanks 

[NurgleHH]

Thank you. Maybe it would be a good Idea to make a Internet-DB for Comparison...

[Aaron]

I don't mean to hijack, but great paint job on those square heads Plynkes! Is it my eyes or did you make the uniforms a blueish grey? I'm curious because I plan to start on a section of Foundry figures tonight or tomorrow.

[Plynkes]

It is a sort of bluish, greenish grey, yes. In my library have so many pictures of actual uniforms and colour plates, and none of them agree with each other as to the degree (or indeed lack of it) of "greeness" in the grey that in the end I decided to just go with what pleased the eye.

Initially I mixed up a colour I liked using GW blue, grey and green (the exact names escape me). Now I use Cote d'Armes Field Grey, which looks about the same but involves less work (no mixing, except for shades and highlights). Here's a newer one done that way:



The trousers on all of them are done with a plain grey (GW Codex Grey and Fortress Grey), without any green or blue in it.

[Aaron]

Thanks for that. My Blandford guidebook says the earlier uniforms were straight grey, so I might take the easy route. I do like the slightly greenish tinge though. I might try mixing a bit of VMC German Uniform in to whatever grey I wind up using.

[Ray Earle]

Ive gone with Renegade for my WW1 antics, mainly because they have the "any pack for £6" deal on right now  :)I like the sculpts alot but some may find them "chunky".

Ah, so I'm not the only one then? 

Of course apart from having some of the most characterful BEF officers going (being earlier Mike Owen sculpts) they also produce the cavalry figures I must have in an early war army.

[Helen]

It is a sort of bluish, greenish grey, yes. In my library have so many pictures of actual uniforms and colour plates, and none of them agree with each other as to the degree (or indeed lack of it) of "greeness" in the grey that in the end I decided to just go with what pleased the eye.

Initially I mixed up a colour I liked using GW blue, grey and green (the exact names escape me). Now I use Cote d'Armes Field Grey, which looks about the same but involves less work (no mixing, except for shades and highlights). Here's a newer one done that way:



The trousers on all of them are done with a plain grey (GW Codex Grey and Fortress Grey), without any green or blue in it.

Hi Poly,

Love your style, its very appealing to the eye 

[Plynkes]

Thanks, Helen.

Aaron, I vaguely knew about the plain grey. But plain grey is just so, well... plain. I think the greenish grey was introduced in 1915, so it is still okay to use on early war spikey-headed Germans (Even though I use mine for 1914). And I have seen depictions of Germans in 1914 in a greenish uniform. They would seem to be wrong, but I don't really mind. It's only toy soldiers and I never was much of a stickler at the best of times.