ECW Parliament

[Zippee]

it's taken a long time to get this photographed but finally pictures of my Baroque ECW project

I'll post a couple of tasters but the majority are at the links below

EPM 02 - Sir John Merrick's Foot - 00 by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr

EPM 04 - Earl of Manchester's Foot - 01 by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr

WB01 - Church Militia - 00 by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr

REM01 - Sir John Meldrum's Horse - 00 by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr

RE05 - Francis Fienne's Horse - 00 by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr

ART 02 - Medium Cannon - 00 by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr

BAG 00 - Baggage Camp by Zippee Jerred, on Flickr


More here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/albums/with/72157680805926932

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Simply splendid

[DFlynSqrl]

Those are very nice!

[Techno]

Excellent !! 

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

He's at it again!

[sunjester]

These look really good! 

[lowlylowlycook]

These are also great as well!

[Malbork]

Excellent work

Almost ashamed to look at my own Parliamentarians now

[d_Guy]

I like them, Zippee. Very effectively based and painted. The Church Militia and Camp are particularly well conceived and executed. I had woundered what you have been up to recently, welcome back

[d_Guy]

Enjoyed going through your albums. Massive amount of work done to a uniform high standard. Notice that you use figures and basing standardized to Baroque type. Particularly noticeable with the Trotter/Galloper types. Care to share your basing schemes?

[Zippee]

Enjoyed going through your albums. Massive amount of work done to a uniform high standard. Notice that you use figures and basing standardized to Baroque type. Particularly noticeable with the Trotter/Galloper types. Care to share your basing schemes?

Thanks for the kind words gents (and others)

d_Guy - Basing scheme I think we talked about at the start of this project

GA - 120x40mm base, 1 cmd, 10 gallopers in a low V shape - SP are the same
TR - 120x40mm base, 1cmd, 12 trotters in a single long line
RE - 120x40mm base, 1 cmd, 15 reiters in 2 short lines
REM - 120x80mm base, 1 cmd, 33 reiters in 4 short lines
CL - 120x40mm base, 8 light horse sprinkled around

PIKE - 120x120mm base, 2 cmd, 12 halberd, 116 pike, 10 swords
standards and drums in the centre surrounded by halberds and then by a 11x12 square of pikes with a front rank of swords with 2 officers

EARLY TERCIO - 120x120mm base, 1 cmd, 46 pike, 48 shot
central 8x6 block of pike with cmd front and centre - on each corner a 4x3 wing of shot

LATE TERCIO - 120x80mm base, 1 cmd, 46 pike, 24 shot
central 8x6 block of pike with cmd front and centre - on each flank a 4x3 wing of shot

EARLY PIKE & MUSKET (EPM) - 120x40mm base, 1 cmd, 14 pike, 24 shot
central 4x4 block of pike with cmd front and centre - on each flank a 6x2 sleeve of shot

LATE PIKE & MUSKET (LPM) - 120x40mm base, 1cmd, 4 pike, 28 shot
central 2x2 block of pike with cmd front and centre, on each flank a 7x2 sleeve of shot

SHOOTERS (T) - 120x40mm base, 1 cmd, 30 shot
2 ranks of shot with command front and centre

WARBAND (WB) - 120x40mm base, 1cmd, 46 warriors
3 rough ranks of warriors in a cluster/mob with cmd front and centre

SKIRMISSHERS (SK) - 120x40mm base,15 skirmishers
2 ranks of shot, spread out

DRAGOONS (DR) - 120x40mm base, 24 dragoons
2 ranks of dragoons - this is probably the biggest abstraction, Baroque doesn't utilise the mounted aspect of dragoons, so they are only represented on foot. They haven't got commands purely because that distinguishes them from T units which otherwise start to look very similar.

*cmd = a command element of 1 officer, 1 musician and 1 standard bearer

Hope that makes sense - the REM units are particularly imposing (and effective) on the table

Am taking a break from 10mm for a while and doing a bunch of 28mm RPG figures whilst I prevaricate on starting on the 15mm Hellenistic horde that was the FIB kickstarter, a mere 22 elephants alone! Once I'm done with that lot I'll return to 10mm either with the Napoleonic Bavarians (assuming no Wurttemburgers, Hessians or Saxons will be available even then) or some eastern style Baroque armies: Polish-Lithuanian and Ottoman or maybe early TYW, I'm undecided.

[d_Guy]

Now in my 7th decade so memory degrading. 
Yes - I think at the time I was doing a large amount of freelancing with Baroque and was arguing about really different basing. I have since standardized on a 120mm front (well 5" but close enough) and using Baroque pretty much as written. Thanks for presenting the entire scheme - have placed in my notes. 

Incidently, have now also linked your folder to my blog as an example of well put together Baroque armies.

[barbarian]

I think these could be even better with a coat of matte varnish.
Or maybe on everything but armour, but that would be a bit tedious.

Great work.

[Zippee]

I think these could be even better with a coat of matte varnish.
Or maybe on everything but armour, but that would be a bit tedious.

Great work.

Yes they are due a spray - just waiting on more supplies and better weather

[fred.]

They are very spiffy, indeed!!

Really show of the advantage of big bases.

Looking forward to seeing them in a game.