I've been looking at the same thing. 

There's ELM37 Monks which might need some conversion.
JS2 Jacobite humbly with musket, these guys are dressed in belted plaid so a paint job should hide their origins.
Irish shot could be EL3 or ER11, both are helmeted so late on is reasonable as captured gear would have been in demand.

If you have a look at the 28mm Elizabethan illustrations (formerly Pendraken) on Hoka Hey's website, they give a pretty good guide.

I'm assuming we're talking 10mm Pendraken here, I haven't read through the whole lot.  Apologies if this is irelevant.

Yes 10mm, and preferably Pendraken - so the suggestions are useful.

ELM37 is a good shout, I'd forgotten about them. I only need a couple of Priest figures so a bit of conversion would be OK.

I'm using the JS2 musket figures for the Scots shot.  I have EL3, and adding some ER11 would work. Perhaps a mix of all 3. Or I just ignored the 'Irish' bit and use any base of shot?

Does anyone have a photo of ELM34 SHC with handgun? I'm assuming these are cavalry as there are just 15 to a pack?

I'd go with the ignore bit.  I doubt anybody knows what these guys looked like, your guess is at least as good as anyone else's.  ELM 34 is a bit of a mystery, what's SHC anyway? Super Heavy Cavalry? 

I presume ELM34 looks like a slightly smaller version of these 15mm

Escopeteros - what a magnificent beast! Presumably the inspiration for the much later Reiters.

So has anyone actually got any of ELM34? Do they match the 15mm version, i.e. heavy armour, handgun, and unarmored horse? Are they a single pose?

From searching the forum this was asked back in 2012 too. So they seem an elusive figure.

LoA Artillery

Been working on various (many) bits and pieces lately. The ones that are nearest completion are some Dutch and French artillery for my Battle of the Boyne project. The Dutch artillery is heavy guns, and the French lighter ones.

Oh I say, those are brilliant!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 September 2018, 05:11:53 PM
Oh I say, those are brilliant!

You are too kind!

Some Donkey Wallopers

Painted as one of the English units within the Williamite army - will have to look up which one 

Belting stuff, Forbes !! 

Cheers - Phil

Thanks Phil

Some more LoA bits - in decreasing levels of completeness

Mounted Officers - finding these slow going, mainly as I can't decide on what colours to use



English Artillery - going for a more irregular look to these crews, so only a few in red coats



More cavalry

Doing a grand job there, fred!

However, I suggest you revisit your artillery to make the look more plausible. Sorry if this may sound harsh (and considering the trouble you've gone to so far, I know you want them to be their best) but I suggest you think again about the rims of the wheels on the gun carriages. If you think about it. Heavy gun on a heavy carriage. Terrible 17th Century roads. Wood rimmed wheels won't last long. So, I recommend a quick touch up on the rims with some metallic paint and you're there.  

After all, if they had the technology to put metal hoops on barrels, they also had it for wheels. Meaning well.    

p.s. Might want to revisit the trunnions also. 

Not harsh at all - helpful.

I'd not really thought it through - and now having just checked the Barry Hilton pdfs that I have been using as painting guides, I see that he has all the edges of the wheels done in black. This shouldn't be too hard to update.

By revisiting the trunnions, do you mean on the brass barrels, to make them brass? I couldn't decide if the trunnions where enclosed - so the black metal was over the top of them. But you think that they are just 'resting' in the carriage, so would be brass coloured.

Thanks. I'm thinking of the forces involved when you fire a large calibre gun - if it's not strapped down, the gun, when fired, will fly back into the gunners' laps! It just so happens that, today, I painted a Pendraken SYW piece, and the casting had metal fastenings on either side of the trunnions (so I painted the metal straps black). On your LoA gun carriages, has Pendraken incorporated any 'straps' on the carriage to anchor the gun down? (failing which, perhaps consider painting the whole top edge parts of the gun carriage frame black to represent the metal reinforcing bands?)

Looking good, Forbes !

Cheers - Phil