Switching about...

Its been a while since I've written a proper post here, well it's been a very busy time - hardly had a breather since Crimboand with the weather hardly helping so now is the first chance I've had to get some new pictures of my(very few) recently finished 40mm ECW models. All are conversions or switchings around of available parts from different makers. Drabant, Sash and Saber Romanoff and Jacdaw. Some have been photgraphed previously but I fancied getting them all together as I'm at last starting (just about) to see my way forward in this previously somewhat chaotic project.

This picture shows a patrol of Parliamentarian Cavlary in Scotland sometime in 1651 set upon by a band of Scots "Moss Troopers".

This one shows 2 Officers- who with different paint jobs could be any side in the ECW or even French or Spanish for the Wars of the 1640s and 50s in Europe. Both are basically Jacdaw. The same body pistol Holsters, Sword - differing heads- the hatted one is Sash and Saber- only the pointing arm involved and actual cutting and pinning. The point here of course is that in 40mm this kind of thing is far from difficult- the bits are big enough.

Here are two Ironside cavalry troopers- the riders are both Drabant- though the pistol armed chap has Jacdaw arms since the figure comes firing a carbine which didn't suit the look of the rest of the unit. the Sword armed trooper is on a Sash and Saber horse- since I'd already put that rider on a Drabant horse.

Now a couple of nondescript musketeers- most probably Northern English Royalists both Jacdaw figures almost from the bag as it were.. Now a little drop in scale and period. Jiohn Reidy recently painted me a unit of Bluemoon 15mm Romans. Now I have them based up they just look too tasty to ignre with the camera.

and last but not least "Maximus Incongruous" the Roman general. - again painted by John

I really like these little chaps- I'm very tempted to go back into Ancients... maybe....