Saturday 24 February 2018

Pete F - Pike Toy Soldiers (31 points)



Progress on my Pikeman's Lament army continues - at an albeit glacial pace. Project 6 [ECW] was inspired by a very enjoyable game using Daniel Mersey's pike & shot skirmish rules and an irresistable EBay deal for Warlord's King & Country starter set. At the time I thought maybe some of the plastic could be used for Project 4 [Game of Thrones conversions] - however, the soldiers on the sprues are too flouncy and lacey - there may be a couple of morion heads that would work but I'm going to have to look at more medieval and dark ages types - I'm getting sidetracked.



Here is a half section of Pike. ECW soldiers wore whatever they had or their commanding officer gave them so there are regiments that wore the main colours - red, green, grey on both sides. This unit will have generally green/grey green clothing - with a dash of red here and there - I'm thinking one of my commanders  (Royalist) will have red as his colour and the other (Parliament) one tawny orange.


I've been working on a flexible basing system so that these troops can be re-purposed to any ruleset. My ECW friend has a lot of his troops mounted on pennies and inserted in wooden bases but they had a tendency to fall out - I think he may now be going for a more permanent glued solution. I'm trying small magnets drilled into the wooden based and a metal backing to the mdf frame. It's a partial success - the troops grip to the base just fine but the magnets (3.2mm x 1.6mm) aren't quite strong enough to lift the whole base by one of the soldiers. It works fine if you lift the unit by the base. 


Although I now have 11 Vallejo greens I still couldn't find one I really liked for this unit - it came out a little too WW2 Wermachty. Never mind.


6 x 28mm foot for a total of 30 points

Warlord plastics


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What a cracking unit Pete and a timely reminder that I need to do some for my summer Witchfinder game.  I love the subtle use of colour to link the chaps together and what amazing detail on that face.  Your clever basing solution is worth a bonus point so 31 in total to your tally. 

8 comments:

  1. Nice looking figures and basing Pete

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  2. Very nice Pete, the movement tray is a good find!

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  3. Really great work, Pete!! The colours look perfect - I'm sure the green would have been fairly grey-green-ish (as opposed to Robin Hood-Lincoln Green!). I really like it. Great basing solution as well - looks super-robust.

    I've got "The Pikeman's Lament" and I think it's a great ruleset. Looking forward to getting some dedicated troops made up for it like you. Great work!

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  4. Very good! Nice work on the magnetic solution.

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  5. Very nice. Excellent basing system as well. cheers

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