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Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:45 pm
by Essex Boy
garyp wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:30 pm
That looks pretty good Iain. May I have a browse of it when we meet up in March? I quite fancy an 18th century Ottoman army
Yes, of course.
How about a 20mm Ottoman army?
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:52 pm
by garyp
You read my mind. Just need to work out which figures to use.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:34 am
by Essex Boy
garyp wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:52 pm
You read my mind. Just need to work out which figures to use.
It's worth having a look at Newline's Napoleon in Egypt range. John C does an ex Minifigs Janissary (which he'll try to sell you but is too big) and Irregular has a reasonable selection. There are loads of plastics but they are a bit big for my taste - and of course they tend to look like they're at a dance.
Do you know of any other makes?
E
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:52 am
by Vintage Wargaming
There are the 1/72 figures in the Hagen Miniatures shop.
http://www.hagen-miniatures.de/index.ph ... y/view/370
They will be too big to go with Newline and the website is clunky - you have to keep scrolling to the bottom of the page every time you click on anything.
There is a good chance further figures will be added to the range and there are French, British and Sepoy figures suitable for Egypt too.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:23 am
by garyp
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:34 am
garyp wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:52 pm
You read my mind. Just need to work out which figures to use.
It's worth having a look at Newline's Napoleon in Egypt range. John C does an ex Minifigs Janissary (which he'll try to sell you but is too big) and Irregular has a reasonable selection. There are loads of plastics but they are a bit big for my taste - and of course they tend to look like they're at a dance.
Do you know of any other makes?
E
To be honest I haven't really looked yet. I'll now do a bit of research, but they need to be compatible in size with the Les Higgins stuff, ideally. Otherwise I'll have to buy some opposition too.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:01 am
by Essex Boy
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:52 am
There are the 1/72 figures in the Hagen Miniatures shop.
http://www.hagen-miniatures.de/index.ph ... y/view/370
They will be too big to go with Newline and the website is clunky - you have to keep scrolling to the bottom of the page every time you click on anything.
There is a good chance further figures will be added to the range and there are French, British and Sepoy figures suitable for Egypt too.
I was exchanging e-mails with Uwe about scales only recently. I think we've agreed that 1/72 will be too big for my LH and Irregular chaps, but he's volunteered to send comparison piccies of his new Spanish WSS stuff.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:23 am
by Vintage Wargaming
Yes there is no chance of them matching up with LH which along with Newline and RSM (ex Pax Britannica) 20mm (not the 25mm ones) I think of as "small 20mm".
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:30 am
by grizzlymc
I would love to see a list of Bacchus subbies for Ottomans in 6mm.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:50 pm
by Paul
grizzlymc wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:30 am
I would love to see a list of Bacchus subbies for Ottomans in 6mm.
Pete has already listed the proxies for the cavalry along with the range of infantry.
https://www.baccus6mm.com/catalogue/Ear ... omanTurks/
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 2:16 pm
by Essex Boy
I think the Newline figures, albeit Napoleonic, are close enough to late 17thC to be useable.....well, I would wouldn't I. Sean has done me a bunch of shields so I can enhance the Janissaries a bit, and a couple of Irregular Miniatures chappies squeezed into a unit will add a bit of variety.