Tuesday, 23 January 2018

...and I'm back.

All through the wintertime, I've hid myself away painting and basing for the Salute ECW game, whilst finishing the forthcoming "For King and Parliament!" English Civil War rules, with Andrew Brentnall and others including (but far from limited to) Millsy and Ian Notter.


Here are some lovely Bicorne minis (clickable photo) painted by the highly talented Redzed. Charles I (holding map) and Sir Edward Walker are discussing dispositions for a forthcoming battle, whilst the young Prince of Wales looks on. In attendance are various flunkeys and some dismounted gentleman pensioners. The standard isn't intended to be the Royal Standard; Sir Edmund Verney will carry a larger version of that, on a separate base. The minis (and the colour schemes) are based on a lovely illustration in Philip Haythornthwaite's excellent "The English Civil War, 1642-1651: An Illustrated Military History." There is every chance that they will make the cover of the rules....

The base is one of the new command Batbases with my famous wobbly edge.

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19 comments:

  1. Phil23 January 2018 at 10:15

    Gorgeous!!

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  2. DaveD23 January 2018 at 10:50

    lovely piece Simon

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  3. Yarkshire Gamer23 January 2018 at 11:42

    Welcome back, Simon

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  4. Evan Hughes23 January 2018 at 14:22

    Good to hear from you again, Simon! These are terrific figs, eminently fit to grace the pages of the finished rule set.

    Just wondering - will Verney come with a detachable hand...?

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    1. BigRedBat24 January 2018 at 01:01

      Oh good idea! I have these 2mm magnets.... ;-)

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  5. Bruce Roeder23 January 2018 at 15:21

    Beautiful!

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  6. Prufrock23 January 2018 at 16:05

    Lovely!

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  7. Millsy23 January 2018 at 21:33

    Good to see the forces for good will be making the cover and not those other chaps who lack respect for the true order...

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    1. BigRedBat24 January 2018 at 01:03

      :-). I think those chaps with some mounted gentlemen pensioners, behind, should look the part.

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  8. BaronVonJ24 January 2018 at 05:52

    I was just thinking to myself the other day, "When's he going to be done with those rules?".

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  9. BigRedBat24 January 2018 at 06:47

    Pretty soon I hope! They should be ready for Salute, perhaps a little earlier... golly there is a lot of work in an 80 page rulebook...

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  10. Ray Rousell24 January 2018 at 21:51

    Very nice Simon!

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    1. BigRedBat25 January 2018 at 01:38

      Thanks Ray- lots of lead on the painting table!

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  11. Colin Ashton28 January 2018 at 11:21

    Fantastic

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