ECW Commission done

I got my final pics from igwarg minis

My most expensive commission to date at $7 a piece, but I like it. I think Im going to get him to do my Romans.

Cromwell

My ECW Parliamentarians are almost done. I got this example photo from
http://igwargminis.com/



They look good. This was an expensive commission, probably my most expensive to date, at $7 a figure.

Pre-painted historicals

This is an interesting trend that has started recently.

Traditionaly historical gamers are a bit hidebound. They would never dream of fielding an unpainted miniature, much less one painted by someone else. I guess there is a new generation of historical gamers.

Old Glory started it all.


I do not own any, yet, but they appear to be of good quality, painted well. They only problem is with the Old Glory sculpts themselves. They arent the best you can buy in historicals, not that they are bad, just not the best you could get.

Old Glory choose specificly the most tedious army items for pre-paints, the line infantry. This way you could fill out your army quickly and detail your special units.

They are a good value too. Looking at these Union Soldiers you get 20 of them for $70, thats $3.50 a piece, thats really good considering that includes the cost of the miniature. They can be even cheaper with Old Glory's Army. You get 40% off that way.

They are great for skirmish gaming or Warhammer Ancients

Warhammer ECW

Warhammer: English Civil War is somethign I've been meaning to do for several years. I've had the book since it came out but I have delayed getting into it because all metal armies are expensive.
http://www.warhammer-historical.com/acatalog/English_Civil_War.html

The time period is facinating. It was the emergence of the "new model army". Swords and the like were being fazed out and gunpowder was being fazed in. Which left the army looking odd. Masses of pike flanked by massed muskets.Pike and shotte, which is a whole gaming genre.I also like the romanticism of the period. Royalists versus rebels.

Warlord Games has made it afordable:

.http://shop.warlordgames.co.uk/28mm-pike-and-shotte-158-c.asp
40 multipart plastics for $30.

I got a few bites on Bartertown, all from people who had never painted the period before I got an email from IGWARG MINIS.
http://igwargminis.com/photo3_3.html

He quoted me $7 for infantry and $14 for cavalry. Cannon counting as 1 infantry figure. Sounded good to me, especially as he only paints at one level. So I sent him the box and a Saker cannon blister.

I will let you know how it goes.