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Having established at Britcon (using borrowed figures) that LoA Anglo-Dutch is a viable army, I now want to one of my own.

What figure manufactures make suitable figures in 15mm? Which would anyone recommend?

(Someone recommended Dixons, and indeed they are very nice, but sadly they are 28mm).

Dixon does a 15mm range for "Marlburians".

http://www.dixon-minis.com/dixoncatalog ... aintype=22

And Essex, of course, does a 1660-1745 range with some earlier figures appropriate for pre-Marlburian.

http://www.essexminiatures.co.uk/frames15bro.html

I've have some of both Essex and Dixon and I'm happy with both. There's Donnington (Age of Louis XIV), Magister Militurm (War of the League of Augsberg), Blue Moon (Marlburian and Great Northern War), Matchlock (Later 17th Century), Lancashire (Marlburian and Grand Alliance) and Mini Figs (Marlburian and Great Northern Wars) but I've purchased none of these but some of the sites have photos. You might have to pick and choose but you should be able to get what you want from what's on offer.

http://shop.ancient-modern.co.uk/the-wa ... v-70-c.asp

http://www.magistermilitum.com/prodtype ... istory=cat

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Cat ... egoryID=55

http://bluemoonmanufacturing.com/index.php?cat_id=32

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Cat ... goryID=173

http://www.lancashiregames.com/

There might be some others, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

rbodleyscott wrote:Having established at Britcon (using borrowed figures) that LoA Anglo-Dutch is a viable army, I now want to one of my own.

What figure manufactures make suitable figures in 15mm? Which would anyone recommend?

(Someone recommended Dixons, and indeed they are very nice, but sadly they are 28mm).

The very best (IMHO) are Venexia. You'll have to wait until the end of the year when the new American manufacturer starts production runs, but they are through Sgt Major Miniatures http://www.sgmm.biz/.

I'm hoping to build the Louis XIV equivalent for the Worlds (CanCon January 2013). It's going to be a close run thing.

http://picpaste.com/Hainaut-tMJZXTDC.jpg

ravenflight wrote:

rbodleyscott wrote:Having established at Britcon (using borrowed figures) that LoA Anglo-Dutch is a viable army, I now want to one of my own.

What figure manufactures make suitable figures in 15mm? Which would anyone recommend?

(Someone recommended Dixons, and indeed they are very nice, but sadly they are 28mm).

The very best (IMHO) are Venexia. You'll have to wait until the end of the year when the new American manufacturer starts production runs, but they are through Sgt Major Miniatures http://www.sgmm.biz/.

I'm hoping to build the Louis XIV equivalent for the Worlds (CanCon January 2013). It's going to be a close run thing.

http://picpaste.com/Hainaut-tMJZXTDC.jpg

The one slipped my mind....

Pics of their cavalry...

http://theowlbear.blogspot.ca/2011/12/l ... li-di.html

There's also Irregular Miniatures:

http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/

I feel your pain as I have iterated through this several times. IMHO there aren't any 'great' figures out there.

Sir Bill the Ageds (TMP) blog is good ,for a lot of reasons, and has picture comparisons

http://warsoflouisxiv.blogspot.co.uk/se ... %20figures



Basically none really 'mix' with one another and they span the ends of the size spectrum

I've painted Venixia (the Louis XIV pics in the main rule book), they were 'OK'. I found something underwhelming about them. They are also BIG (the cav esp). You will also have to wait as they are out of production right now, and when they are you will face the joy of avoiding import duty !!

Essex are just 'essex' , personally I hate them. They all have silly poses and big conks. That said their cavalry for this period is the best Essex I've seen... but I'm guessing you won't want much of that.

I've also just painted Irregular, who probably are as good as any. They have a lot of bad press but they do paint up rather 'jolly' ... that said the faces were absymal!

Hallmark are nice , but (too) dainty. I might suggest Donnington, but when we spoke you didn't seem to like them.

I found it so frustrating I've ended up making my own.

thanks
Simon

Simon, do you have timescales in mind for your range?
John

Simon, do you have timescales in mind for your range?
John

Hi John,
well, optimistically, I'd like to be using one at Derby... so whats that October? More realistically Xmas

Simon,

Any chance you could post when they are ready, as I don't intend to start my army till the new year?

Thanks

Don

I normally like Essex but don't care for most of their foot figures in the "standard range" for this period, but they do have other options:







The first is BRO33 Leibguard, and the other two are dragoons which in 15mm can easily be painted as nomal musketeers.

BRO109-112 are guards with lace, but have no pictures. The lace for many of these is easy to remove, and can also be used as normal musketeers.



Lastly, BR070 above is a regular musketeer and is also nice. All of these can be mixed and gives a good firing line.

Hal

BTW, we do need a good League of Augsberg range in 15mm. I think Khurasan had the figures comissioned at one point, but they seem to have lost interest in historicals.

Any chance you could post when they are ready, as I don't intend to start my army till the new year?

Thanks

Don

After your 'get out of jail card' moment in our game at the weekend Don, I'll be charging you double !

A League of Augsburg range is exactly what I need to buy a army from Lurkio. I've eyed up all of the other ranges and held off on the grounds that I didn't fancy the army. Looks like my Xmas present may be sorted, now I need to work on a painting style that will do justice to them.

Simon,

After your 'get out of jail card' moment in our game at the weekend Don, I'll be charging you double !

Now if you had only mentioned it at the time

I'll see what I can do in future

Don

Thanks guys for all your replies.

list_lurker wrote:I've also just painted Irregular, who probably are as good as any. They have a lot of bad press but they do paint up rather 'jolly' ... that said the faces were absymal!

I have ordered some Irregular foot figures - enough for 2 BGs as a start. Will see how they paint up in my hands.

Simon, looking at that yellow-coated regiment you posted a picture of, I was wondering about the shading. Did you use Quick-Shade (if so, which grade) or something else?

mmm. .. Its been a few years. I would have either been a home made 'future klear' mix... Or more likely just a GW wash

If I were to do it now I'd -

Prime white
Airbrush /spray yellow ( the army painter yellow primer is good for this.. Needs a white base though)
Wash with GW Shade ... Casandora yellow or something

Yellow is hard to get right

rbodleyscott wrote:Having established at Britcon (using borrowed figures) that LoA Anglo-Dutch is a viable army, I now want to one of my own.

What was your list?

list_lurker wrote:I've painted Venixia (the Louis XIV pics in the main rule book), they were 'OK'. I found something underwhelming about them. They are also BIG (the cav esp).

Hi Simon,

What did you not like about them?

I'm very interested because I've just ordered a whole bunch. They look very good, but if you've had hands on experience I'd naturally defer to your knowledge.

What did you not like about them?

if I'm being hyper critical (you asked ) , the metal was soft, and resultant detail ill-defined.The facial detail was a bit 'mixed'.

However, I'm assuming that SMM will be remastering and use different metal so that might all 'go away'. I know when I spoke to Yuri about buying he was talking only about selling 'masters' and not moulds.

If pushed I'd still say they were the best out there at the moment

With the theme now set for Usk 2013 at armies after 1649 I think we may all be bringing our plans forward.

Don

donm wrote:With the theme now set for Usk 2013 at armies after 1649 I think we may all be bringing our plans forward.

Don

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