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Saturday, 19 November 2016
Basing try out for Portable Thirty Years War etc
This week I got some Minifigs S Range for my Portable TYW/ECW project-
I have used them so far to try out some basing /deploying ideas.Firstly a large Tercio-
Secondly Dutch?/Swedish?-
As ever let me know what you think and all suggestions welcome. Incidentally I have not tried out these formations in a game yet.
The figures look good, but personally I would have more musketeers in at least two clear ranks on the Shot bases for both tercio and Dutch system. Regards, Arthur
I like the old school figures and old school painting - sounds like maybe you got them 'pre-loved'? As to formation, I reckon the thing with pike and Shot is that they need to look like a proper block of pikes, and maybe you need more than 2 ranks to get that look? Two ranks feels more like a line.. of course that can get expensive, sorry about that! I am using 15mm figures as a result , and struggling to paint 'em with my age 50+ eyes! Your blog is lovely, do keep it up!
They look great, Tradgardmastare. I love those bristling pikes.
ReplyDeleteThe squares work well in representing those two formations, especially the potentially difficult to represent Tercio.
ReplyDeleteThe figures look good, but personally I would have more musketeers in at least two clear ranks on the Shot bases for both tercio and Dutch system.
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Arthur
I like the old school figures and old school painting - sounds like maybe you got them 'pre-loved'? As to formation, I reckon the thing with pike and Shot is that they need to look like a proper block of pikes, and maybe you need more than 2 ranks to get that look? Two ranks feels more like a line.. of course that can get expensive, sorry about that! I am using 15mm figures as a result , and struggling to paint 'em with my age 50+ eyes! Your blog is lovely, do keep it up!
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