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Kaserne => Projekte => Thema gestartet von: Axebreaker am 10. September 2012 - 12:11:44

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 10. September 2012 - 12:11:44

This is part of a project I\'ve started with a friend based around the Scottish campaigns in the English Civil War. I\'ve decided to
build the forces of that wily commander Montrose and my friend is building the Covenanter\'s.

My Montrose(ish) army isn\'t an attempt to exactly replicate what the forces of Montrose looked like, but rather a melding of
Scottish and English together so I can use it as both a Scottish Royalist army and a Northern English Royalist army. I like the
history of Montrose and Rupert so I\'d like to use it for both. Basically it will be my own impression with quite a few liberties
taken. Hopefully the end result will still be convincing enough to not totally offend the purists out there.

I\'m starting off with a regiment from the rock hard Irish brigade in which I mixed Bicorne\'s Irish and English together which
gives them a mixed and slightly ragged appearance (except the officers) which I feel they probably looked something like that.
The Irish were noted for usinga half pike, but I prefer the full pike and so went with that. They also wore a greyish top and
white leggings(many did any ways) of which I included in the mix, but I changed the top to mostly green for two reasons.
The first is I\'ll have plenty of grey to do when I do the regular Scot units and well......they are Irish and green just darn
well belongs!:-)

The figures are from Bicorne and the English figures are simply superb(best ECW around IMHO) and the Irish figures are pretty
good too if not quite as good as the English figures. I painted them using AP with highlights added. The Flag is from Flags of War
and while it looks wonderful it\'s a little small for me, however I heard he\'s now making them bigger and so I probably replace it
with a bigger one.

God save the king!
Thanks for viewing! :)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-09-10001.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-09-10005.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-09-10006.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-09-10004.jpg)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Camo am 10. September 2012 - 12:40:52

Éirinn go Brách!

Lovely troop, well done ;)

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: sharku am 10. September 2012 - 13:30:12

very nice!

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 10. September 2012 - 21:18:50

Thanks guys I appreciate the comments. :)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Dareios am 11. September 2012 - 08:07:08

Very nice indeed. Colour composition, highlights, bases, choice of poses etc. is all very, very good. I have only one little remark regarding the background: It seems the trees cast a shadow on the blue background. Maybe use a stronger light source to get rid of any shadows or move the background back a bit, so that the trees can not cast a shadow on it. However, keep up the good work and I look forward to see more of your troops.

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 11. September 2012 - 11:31:31

Thank you very nice of you. :) You are right on the background as I really didn\'t put that much effort into that part as it was late at night and I didn\'t feel like doing more pictures......lazy I guess. :whistling_1:

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: morty am 11. September 2012 - 15:03:15

Christopher, your work is always outstanding.. Moreover, I am impressed of the speed of your paintjob ( without losing quality ) - confess, in reality Christopher is a painting studio consisting of more than 10 guys :D

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 11. September 2012 - 15:36:17

Thank you! :D
I confess I have a paint crew that works for me and I whip them regularly to paint faster! :smiley_emoticons_outofthebox: Seriously though it\'s all me. :) Speed comes with practice(I\'m old so lots of practice! ^^ ) and knowing what paints you want to work with and how.

That said I\'m not as fast as a painter as you think. I paint in variety of different methods of which all of them require different time lengths to do. The figures above took me roughly 40-45min. each as I only blocked in the colours then applied AP and then added one highlight to most things and two on the flesh. My Samurai on the other hand take me a very long time to do as I paint in layer method adding several highlights and so a couple hours each at least.

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 11. Oktober 2012 - 18:03:41

Some more Irish ready for battle!

Figures are Bicorne and flags are from Flags of War new larger ECW flags.

I\'ll be doing some Renegade and Redoubt figures for the Scots part of the Montrose army next.

Thanks for viewing! :)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-10001.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-10007.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-10008.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-10004.jpg)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Tellus am 13. Oktober 2012 - 19:52:35

That\'s an impressive amount of minis per unit, so a wise decision to use AP  and the result looks good to me :thumbsup:
I would like to go into the ECW too, but the amount of minis for a good P&S ratio keeps me away as also the unresolved multiple project problem  does :rolleyes:

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 13. Oktober 2012 - 23:45:07

Thanks Tellus. :)

They way I use AP doesn\'t save me much time as I add highlights, but it does save me some of course with is helpful. ^^

My units are 36 strong. That is quite a few, but you don\'t need as many units for games as you do Naps so in the end the figure count isn\'t as bad as it may seem. ;)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 17. Oktober 2012 - 12:25:41

Ever seen a figure you had to have? Well this was one for me and it\'s from Redoubt miniatures. It shows what a commander is often doing and not always charging down the road.
Thanks for viewing! :)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-17001.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-17003.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-17005.jpg)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2012-10-17007.jpg)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: macaffey am 17. Oktober 2012 - 13:34:44

Awesome work! :thumbsup: And pretty cool mini!

Regards

 Macaffey

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: fchenjaeger am 17. Oktober 2012 - 14:19:36

Beautifully done!
And when does he put away that useless sheet of paper and start charging down the road? :P

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 18. Oktober 2012 - 00:29:02

Thanks guys I appreciate the support! :)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Thomas Kluchert am 18. Oktober 2012 - 09:20:56

Ja, tadellos und sehr schick geworden, wie alles, was man so von dir sieht!

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 18. Oktober 2012 - 11:03:50

Thank Thomas that\'s very kind of you to say. :)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 05. November 2013 - 18:04:32

New unit!
Marching under the banner of \"For God The King Against All traitors\" over and \"God Save The King\" under comes Lord Huntley\'s Strathbogie Scots Royalist regiment supporting Montrose fight for the king\'s cause in Scotland during the ECW.

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2013-11-03010_zps94b5f455.jpg) (http://s400.photobucket.com/user/khraid/media/ECW/2013-11-03010_zps94b5f455.jpg.html)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2013-11-03013_zps3702b976.jpg) (http://s400.photobucket.com/user/khraid/media/ECW/2013-11-03013_zps3702b976.jpg.html)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2013-11-03017_zps168f6928.jpg) (http://s400.photobucket.com/user/khraid/media/ECW/2013-11-03017_zps168f6928.jpg.html)

(http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp84/khraid/ECW/2013-11-03016_zps8523c933.jpg) (http://s400.photobucket.com/user/khraid/media/ECW/2013-11-03016_zps8523c933.jpg.html)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: sharku am 05. November 2013 - 19:09:17

very nice. A awesome paintjob. I love scotish regiments!

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: McCloud am 05. November 2013 - 19:17:29

Immer wieder beeindruckend, sind sehr schön geworden.

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 05. November 2013 - 20:09:14

Thank you gentlemen! :)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Sorandir am 05. November 2013 - 20:50:59

great stuff !  :thumbup:

Is this your game at the next Attriticon in Ulm ?
At least I would be glad to play with you  :)

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 05. November 2013 - 21:02:45

Zitat von: \'Sorandir\',\'index.php?page=Thread&postID=149987#post149987

great stuff ! :thumbup:

Is this your game at the next Attriticon in Ulm ?
At least I would be glad to play with you :)

Thank you! :) Sorry no, I have no plans to bring this to Attriticon. This is a project with a friend at my club who is building a Covenanter force opposing mine. I have some other ideas brewing if I come. ^^

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: DonVoss am 05. November 2013 - 21:46:11

Ganz tolle Truppe, Axe.
Superbly painted stuff, very inspiring... :thumbup:

DV

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 05. November 2013 - 21:51:41

Thank you Don I appreciate that! :)

Christopher

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: DonVoss am 05. November 2013 - 23:18:53

Seeing these super painted troops makes me wish to go back to my own ECW-stuff. All the distraction... :D
And I have not a single scott in my armies... ;)

Thanx,
Don

Titel: Montrose\'s Scots Royalist Army ECW(Update 05.11.13)
Beitrag von: Axebreaker am 06. November 2013 - 15:40:35

Zitat von: \'DonVoss\',\'index.php?page=Thread&postID=149998#post149998

Seeing these super painted troops makes me wish to go back to my own ECW-stuff. All the distraction... :D

And I have not a single scott in my armies... ;)

Thank you Don and that\'s right, you know you want to go back and like you said you don\'t have any Scots yet.... ^^

Christopher