He has created a wonderful Low countries city ( Laarden) and populated it with virtual historical characters and real military units from the late 17th century.
As far as a prize, the terms were a 28mm command figure from the Rennaisance,so something to fit in with the Laarden , all my 17th century figures are for the English civil war,so 1640s,a bit early,then I remembered I had picked up a handful of War of the Spanish Succesesion figures from Foundry in maybe the late 1980s who have lain dormant for a mere 30 ish years!
Suitably aged and in the right size range,Foundry/Dixon but a little too modern, looking at period references it seemed that they were close but had hats not tricornes so I removed the tricornes,I ended up doing an officer and a drummer as I started with the drummer and felt I needed somebody more senior.
I painted the officer's wig as hair (my what curly hair you have!) Actually it's not far off my daughter's hair to be honest, and stuck on Cromwell's hat that I cut off when turning him into my fist shaking Christian fundamentalist Covenanter commander.
( You see,it is worth keeping everything Stew!)
The drummer got a plastic warlord hat and reversed colours.
I went back to one of my pre Osprey colour uniform reference from the 1960s, it's a lovely Danish book, so you get full coverage of Scandanavia and northern Europe which makes a nice change from the (understandable)Anglo/ American bias of most of the books I have.
So I looked up the relevant conflict and found a French officer who could match my figure and finished my drummer to suit.
So two figures! I am working on a unit of landsknechts,which are very nearly finished and trying to flag up my Italian wars forces.
All the best Iain
Love the foppish look of officer, Iain. Nice conversion work on the drummer too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, very kind of you!
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Good work and congratulations to Sidney!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan! He was not only more productive but the quality of his work was excellent!
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Nice figures......a lot to be said for discovering older figures hidden away. A period I need to get into in the future🤔
ReplyDeleteI have thoughts of WSS too...
DeleteThanks Matt, it's nice finding figures in a box, surely it's only a matter of moments for you to paint up two splendid opposing forces in 18/15mm Jonathan? I look forward to seeing them!
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A most impressive officer, he looks beautiful and so motivated, his troops are forced to follow his hat!
ReplyDeleteThere is something to be said for the French grey line uniforms,it's a great foil to all the excess you can pile on top!
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Great figure and a good choice of colours for his uniform.
ReplyDeleteIf I could paint better I'd do renaisance too - probably one of the most oclourful periods to game.
Thanks Zabadak it's nice that it's only just uniform at best!
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I like these a lot Iain. Going very OS on both the figures and the reference book. I hadn't realized the Scandinavian origin on the book- not one I own but one I borrowed frequently from the library.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter, yes originally Danish, I've got it's companion piece which is warriors (I think) covering bronze age up to the 17th century,I say I think as my copy is in Danish! Fine once you work out Tysk is German after that it's pretty straightforward!
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Excellent work! I would not have guessed there was any conversion involved.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fitz,minimal conversions but they often work out best!
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Both look very fancy. Good work mate.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai,pair of French fancies!
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Excellent officer and drummer!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cyrus, very kind of you!
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I would say that one can’t keep everything but clearly I stand corrected! 😀 I do agree that digging out old miniatures is like buying new ones: the same sense of discovery. Especially after 30 years!
ReplyDeleteNice bet to have; fun game. Good job on coming through. The miniatures came out nicely.
Thanks Stew! Good to pay out if you lose a bet!
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Lovely characterful conversions. The Blandford looks to be a superb resource.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm! It's a lovely book, nice illustrations.
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Lovely work, and the conversion looks seamless.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence, keep them small that's what I reckon!
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Full of floppy hatted goodness!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray! Just your kind of thing this , it'll be the Boyne next!
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Lovely work sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal, very kind of you!
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I'm sure I once owned a copy of that Blandford. Lovely figures, really nice paint job.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lee,its a nice book and interesting period!
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