So, I recently found the 'Victory without Quarter' Face book group and it's put me back into the ECW era.
The group is very useful as it's full of expert rule masters, so any rule query can be answered. It has been quite hard for me cranking through different rules to get answers so finding this spring of knowledge is a real boon.
It's been a little time since I painted anything 17th Century so I need to get my head back into it. My main plan is to take it really easy and try not to burn out.
The plan is to paint four figures at a time, two of these batches will equal a squadron of eight models.
The figures selected are a Hodge podge of different makes to vary the look. This will probably give a very early war appearance.
Most of these troopers are old Renegade minis, with Perry's, Essex, Redoubt and Bicorne mixed in. As most of my Parliamentarian horse are Essex figures, I've included one in the mix just to check it works amongst the other larger ranges. I think he looks okay, which is lucky. Ironically, the sculpts are actually meant to be Royalist anyway, so I guess he will feel much more at home here.
I've also started to mix things up a bit to help the variety of the unit. Here is a Perry's figure on one of the Renegade horses, he works very well. At first I thought the Renegade horses were too big, but they have they're place. Also, after messing around with plastic horses, my opinion of them has changed a lot, I now like them!
Here is a plastic Warlord games trooper with a Redoubt head. This helps to bring him up to scale with the Renegade and Bicorne figures.
The idea is to use contrast paints and dip to speed through these...let's see how we get on.
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