It has been a long time since I have been able to do a spot of painting and when the opportunity came along I finally started these English Civil War figures from Tumbling Dice.
My inspiration has been from the excellent Prometheus in Aspic and 20mm Nostalgic Revival ECW games plus Dux's collection of metal and plastic figures.
These four figures were undercoated at least 2 years ago the remainder are now being glued together (heads are separate on some of the castings) as I have just enough to make up one unit. Not sure about the exact unit or side at the moment, nor rules I will be using. Also apologies to any purists out there - I do not know much about the ECW and chose the poses because I thought they looked good together. There are not that many TD pictures out there on interweb-land and interestingly (or not) I will be posting some more TD figures on "Waterloo to Mons" as soon as possible. And I am so proud that I have not made any lame remarks about my "New Model Army" (apart from that one!).
But for now, I really must get cracking on George's figures - Warrior Miniatures Napoleonics.
5 comments:
Excellent!! Lovely painting and basing.
Hi Rodger-glad you like them. I went a bit overboard with the basing, which helps distract from the so-so nature of the figure painting!
Nothing so-so about your painting Matt. I do like the basing though. Looks so much better than just plain green flock. However I do agree that good basing can make average figures look pretty good.
These are very fine - very nice job indeed. I'm dithering on the edge of starting to paint up ECW troops of my own (the delay is partly because I'm still finalising ideas on rules - and thus basing - and partly because I have very little grasp of the uniforms!). Your TD figures look great, and sort of bring them back into the frame of candidate suppliers.
I'd already made up my mind that TD were a bit big for comfort with Higgins and Hinton Hunt (plus SHQ cavalry), but then on my Welsh trip to see John I found he had some TD cuirassiers which looked fine, so once again I'm not sure.
The TD range is large (why oh why don't they put pics on the website?) and looks useful if I could just get a better idea of size. I'll just have to order in some samples from them - yes, I know, why haven't I done that before?
Anyway - that's enough about me - thanks for publishing lovely photo - Cheers - Tony
I have two shoe boxes full of Airfix, Atlantic and many other plastis played with as a youth.
Your figures look great.
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