Here we have 8 cuirassiers to give me a unit in pike and shot for the War of three Kingdoms, which is a less Anglo centric name for the English civil war and it also dates from the 17th century.
Like the pike and shot rules these figures are from Warlord games, most of them are from the cuirassiers box set ,which are metal figures and plastic horses, as you get 12 figures and my units are 8, I've added a plastic figure, cut off his left arm and repurposed one of the spare metal right arms and given him a spare right arm to finish him off and make up the numbers.
I've gone for a mix of metal and blackened armour and a variety of buff,I'm kind of looking forward to doing a unit in a uniform soon , that might be easier!
The flag is from the box set and is meant to be Essex's unit of cuirassiers at Edgehill,there's a lot of chat about cuirassiers in this war and there only being one unit Heselrig but I'm not convinced you can absolutely prove it so I'm going to do another unit for the Royalists!
So that's 80 points, still nothing for the Napoleonic duel but it's still January and I'm wading through 24 more gendarmes, focus, they're a great band aren't they?
All the best Iain
Great job Iain, cool unit.
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Very nice looking lobsters Iain, love the blackened plate and buff combo. Also a big fan of your trumpeter and standard bearer.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter! For the blackened armour I just did a citadel black wash over the primer,but it came out nicely!
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Might just pinch that one.
DeleteSuper paint job. Going to have to start calling it WTK instead of ECW.
ReplyDeleteThanks Scooba! Hey, whatever initials you fancy!
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Very nice indeed. And I didn’t know the ECW had another name, so I’ve learnt something today!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jamie! Every day's a school day!
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Great Work
ReplyDeleteThanks Adam!
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Very nicely done! They look quite striking in their rather ornate armour.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nick! The great thing is I can change the flag and use them for the thirty years war too!
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Always a bonus in my books
DeleteWhat a great looking unit Iain.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Ray!
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lovely Iain
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Matt
Thanks a lot Matt!
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Those red sashes really tie them together.
ReplyDeleteI've gone for a primary red somewhere between Parliaments orange and the Royalists scarlet, so I can get away with either!
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Always one of my favourite ECW units, Iain, and very nicely done!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Noel!
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Lovely models!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Benito!
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Great figs Iain 👍
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Thanks Ken! Can't wack renaissance cavalry!
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From the title, my initial thought was that yoy had painted up some Chinese horsemen. Great looking ECW cavalry, Iain.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stuart! I guess their Chinese scholarship wasn't up to much in 17th century Britain!
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They look great Ian!
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Thanks very much Christopher!
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