Still no gaming here due to family health issues (hopefully normal service will be resumed sometime soon), but at least that's let me catch up a bit on painting. I'm a notoriously slow and half-hearted painter and tend to have little fits of painting and then long lulls so the upside of all the turmoil at home has been a bit of focus. Incidentally if you want an example of the opposite to me, take a look at Eric the Shed's huge painting output at Shed Wars!
I have 3 projects on the go ( I never seem able to focus on 1 thing at a time!), and all very different.
First up at the big scale end, I've made a bit of progress on the 40mm 3 Musketeers figures from Steve Barber Models.
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| Musketeers including Athos, Porthos and Aramis |
I realised that I needed a few more Cardinal's Guards to match the Musketeers
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| Cardinal's Guards including Rochefort (booo!) |
I probably don't need much more in the way of figures as this was always intended to be a small skirmish game, but of course I do need some civilians as well. These are from Eureka Miniatures... a little smaller than the Steve Barber ones but pretty close. I'll also have a look at Irregular who do some 42mm Musketeers... maybe some mounted figures...
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| A 'hired blade' who will do for a pre-Musketeer D'Artagnan, Constance Bonaceiux and Planchet, armed with club (or possibly a baguette) |
Very nice work, I like the look of the Steve Barber figures.
ReplyDeleteThey're lovely figures and ideal for a big skirmish game
DeleteNice stuff Alastair - I too have been doing some 3 Musketeer type figures recently - in my case, 28mm from Brigade Games - I will need more (particularly more "baddies") and I will be adding civilians as extra set dressing too, probably!
ReplyDelete28mm would probably have been a more sensible scale to go for as there's more choice, but I was tempted by the Steve Barber figures
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