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Dear Strelets,
Thank you. If you refer to the gentleman in the cuirass posted 18th December, then he looks very fine. And now I have looked again, I have noticed the cuirass on the standard bearer posted last week. I stand corrected. I am probably too interested in the French Dragoons that are being posted, and am not paying enough attention to the other figures.:blush:
Minuteman
Dear Strelets,
I too had not looked closely at these, rather appreciating them as lovely figures chiefly for others. Cuirasses indeed!
I shall keenly await the full set to see whether there will be a high proportion of lobster pots in these, or perhaps they will come in a later offering? (That is rhetorical, I am happy to wait. I enjoy surprises).
As Flambeau noted, we are gonna need more storage!
Regards, James
Dear James Fisher,
thanks for pointing out the tacitus site, this is indeed a very good source of information!
Dear Strelets!
This is just getting better and better! I'm already afraid I'll have to sell part of my collection to make room on the shelves ... :grinning:
These are lovely, and I'm soooooo tempted. Great to see Strelets putting a real effort into this period.
However...I would really like to see some Imperial Cuirassiers in lobster pot and full kit. I have tricorn cavalry of various types. My next wargame rule writing project is WoSS, so I'm looking to flesh out my armies with some more non-Brits!
Trebian
Agreed, Imperial/Bavarian cuirassiers with helmets would be great. And they could be used for earlier periods as well starting with 30YW and English Civil War.
I looked at everything I could find to get some suitable cuirassiers for the WoSS. the 30YW/EWCW boxes available are very, very, poor in terms of their pose and equipment selection. The Waterloo 1815 set is an absolute joke. 3 cornets, 3 firing a harquebus from the saddle, three with pistols and 3 with swords. Not great for "Cromwell's Cavalry" famed for charging the opposition. As to using them for head swaps, I'm not inclined to buy a box just to get the heads and throw the rest away, pls they are all turned to the side and wouldn't make good fits for "normal" poses.
The early period kit is virtually the same ECW/30YW/WoSS, but even if there are differences this range really needs some of this cavalry. It is the big, big, gap in the market.
Yes, if I was doing a 30YW project I might be a bit happier with chopping figures about. Alas my P&S figures are all 15mm, so I'm looking for figures IU can use within this period. I happily swap hats (my original 40 year old WoSS armies use Airfix Washington's Army, with spare tricorns swapped onto absolutely anything!), but I think that with heads the direction is important, if the sculpting is any good. Regardless of the possibilities, I think I'll hold on for a month or two and see what emerges.
'Tis an exciting time to be alive, if you are a lover of 1/72 figures.
I'm not sure even judicious trimming would make figures from this end of the 17thC do for figures from the 30YW and ECW.
The main problem is that coats at the time of WSS were fundamentally different - bigger cuffs (much bigger cuffs) and the overall length of the coat itself. Much longer than the earlier coats.
Of course if anyone wants to do this, hey they're your figures, but I would rather this sculptor turn their skills and talents to a dedicated 30YWM/ECW range and turn out what I feel would be the definitive range in 1/72