A just-completed project:
(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/cameronian/1_72/Army02_zpsln6namrd.jpg)
Whole force over on: http://camcpproj.blogspot.co.uk/
Both those and the Russians are very nice, what make are they? Some of them look like AB.
Nice. What you using them for?
Always glad to see a well painted Napoleonic force. Are they metal or plastic? 1/72nd scale would suggest the latter.
Looking at blog the faces look like newline but there could be plastics mixed in with them
Cheers comrades.
The story is;
Austrians - vast majority are HaT 1/72 plastics, hussars, generals, jaegers, some line command figures are Newline.
Russians - Essex, Warrior, unknown artillery pieces.
Use? as yet unknown, once the painting mountain is hillock-sized likely DBN or some other cheap and cheerful ruleset.
My somewhat arbitrary approach to scales has meant that everyone has had to wait for an opponent to be mustered. For now it'll be Russians v French and Austrians v Bavarians (I know, I just like Bavarians).
Nice work, I have seen from perusing your blog before that you use Warrior miniatures a bit, I too have purchased Warrior figures, 18th century 15mm, and the service was top notch and the figures are great little guys full of character.
Quote from: jambo1 on 01 February 2015, 05:20:26 PM
Nice work, I have seen from perusing your blog before that you use Warrior miniatures a bit, I too have purchased Warrior figures, 18th century 15mm, and the service was top notch and the figures are great little guys full of character.
Agreed, Warrior are one of the understated companies. I have used a lot of their 25mm Ancients and Medievals for my Mongol allies and enemies. My only little moan was that the spears were a bit too bendy, but you can get around that.
Their 15mm ACW stuff is top notch and about half the price of Essex/Minifigs/etc etc.
I'm sure I have one of their Napoleonic Army packs somewhere as well (yet another project that never got started)
"Once the painting mountain is hillock sized...."
AIN'T EVER GOING TO HAPPEN!
I have looked at warrior in the past, but their shipping seems quite expensive at 40% of the amount ordered so i never ordered something :-\
VERY nice indeed, SV.
Cheers - Phil.
Yes indeed I have done and do use a fair few Warrior. The bargain bucket 25mm Highlanders got me into Jacobite Rebellions. Currently using 25mm figures from their Mexican-American range, infantry and artillery though; the cavalry horses are way too skinny. Being tempted by the 25mm Redcoats but will need to get a dragoon regiment and a source for good 25mm non-banded muskets to resolve it (I should say that they sent me most of the foot range when I bought two samples on a recent order!)
@ petercooman you must be outwith UK then as their website has 'U.K. - 15% ... minimum 2.00 GBP'
Looked at the 15mm 18th century range, the army pack is an absolute bargain (as is the ACW). However had a look at a comparison site a couple of weeks ago and it showed the cavalry as very small, even against Freikorps. That is certainly the case with the Russian uhlans I just did, way smaller than the infantry. It's odd as I got French Nap. cavalry and they were a good size against Essex.
In short, the various scale ranges appear to be very variable. Possibly wise to get a mixed figure sample for 25mm and a foot and horse pack for 15mm, after all they're cheap enough!
Yes i am in Belgium, so that's pretty expensive :o
Too true! I don't think I'd bother. At least not without a good look at other people's charges ;)
At least that means less unpainted things cluttering my house ;D ;D
Didn't realise Warrior were still around. Bought some of their 15mm SYW back in the early eighties and found the metal a bit brittle. They've hopefully cured that by now. Their sculpts look pretty good, though.
I got a very nice 15mm early imperial Roman army from them several years back. It was a bargain at the time and even had a testudo.
They've just produced a 28mm testudo that looks the husky's gonads.
http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/ (http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/)
I and others in my circles have had a variety of Warrior stuff over the years. Some is good, most at least acceptable, some very ropey. Still, for the price even the ropey ones have painted up fine!
Quote from: petercooman on 01 February 2015, 09:18:34 PM
Yes i am in Belgium, so that's pretty expensive :o
"Order over £150.00 worth of figures and get free worldwide shipping on your order."
:D
The 15mm goblins are Aly Morrison sculpts – still enjoyed as part of my collection – most probably his first ever sculpts.
This makes me feel really old but never mind. My first wargame purchase was a British Napoleonic 25mm army pack from Warrior (still do them exactly the same as they were then); it was one of the first cheques I wrote from my brand new cheque account and that was opened in 1973. :'(
Quote from: WeeWars on 02 February 2015, 11:40:51 AM
"Order over £150.00 worth of figures and get free worldwide shipping on your order."
:D
Don't need that much :o
and 150 quids worth of Warrior figures is a jaw dropping amount. :o :o
At those prices it's probably a fair few kilo's!!