The Loose Association of Wargamers

levied troop wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:38 am That rather fine painter Captain Blood has started his own figure range, ECW figures sculpted by Nick Collier:
https://www.bloodyminiatures.co.uk/

And arrived today Very nice in the flesh:

Those look rather good...

Looking at the early releases (and LT seems to have the full range - so far) they look like they are designed more for skirmish gaming, such as Pikeman's Lament, rather than "big battles". Although there's no reason you can't use them for the latter, what they represent are low level, specialist units - forlorn hope, halberdiers, dismounted cavalry - which are only really suitable for vignettes or command figures when refighting Marston Moor or Naseby. I suspect that round two of releases will tell us more. They are gorgeous figures though.

Captain Blood explicitly said on LAF that the Bicorne/Renegade etc ranges provided plenty of good rank and file figures, so he was looking at a more niche type range.

I'm not buying any, but FYI, the Hinchliffe Range has been sold on by Hinds Figures, the pre 1700 range to Lancashire Games & the post 1700 range to S&A Scenics. (I think it's that way round).

I am thinking of buying a Geek Villian Autumn fleece mat. Are they any good ?

That’s the one I got and I’m very happy with it. The fleece is lightweight but strong with a slight stretch. Covers hills nicely without too many folds. The tone on the autumn mat is the best grass one I think (see link below to mine). The greens are all a touch brighter than their website pictures so the autumn one is most subdued, also it doesn’t have many pictures of rocks which I found a bit jarring and unnatural on the others

https://looseasswargamers.org.uk/viewto ... n&start=10

It isn’t an awful lot bigger than 6x4 so you can put hills under it but you may find there’s not enough material overhang to cope with very large or steep ones .Only other downside is that one corner has a small logo on but you really don’t notice it

This pic I took recently gives an impression of what it looks like with 10mm figures

Is it actually fluffy, or just flat cloth that appears to be?

Just flat cloth with a photo image of fluffiness which I think looks good but ones with huge pebbles look too false