What's on your workbench?

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Nice work, Mark. It's a pity Mike never got the time to do the S-L-B Carabiniers. We'd talked about it but he was busy with Ma.K stuff and 1/56 WWII. They'd stand out on a table.

While a nice idea, I think that with a total book strength of 87 men they'd be a bit redundant. Nice for the skirmish gamers and 'imaginations' crowd though.

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Nice work, Mark. It's a pity Mike never got the time to do the S-L-B Carabiniers. We'd talked about it but he was busy with Ma.K stuff and 1/56 WWII. They'd stand out on a table.

Out of interest, with Mike's tragic passing, is there anyone else sculpting quality 15mm figures for Eureka these days?

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Out of interest, with Mike's tragic passing, is there anyone else sculpting quality 15mm figures for Eureka these days?

It's been an overly busy year for funerals again- former brother-in-law but good mate (ex RAN, but still a good bloke), the last of Dad's siblings and a cousin (fck off for a while, Norm, it's getting a bit much!). But Mike's passing hit hard, the silly Pommy bastard.

Nic's doing a few Eureka 15/18mm ranges, Mark. Alan Marsh, Paul Clarke and Kosta Heristanidis (had to look up his surname spelling) are three of his sculptors. Alan does 15/18mm, I think Paul also does some, and Kosta does 28mm+- if I remember correctly. Alan's quite a good sculptor, as his ECW, WSS (new) and Sumerians show (I think he did them, but it could be Paul). Nic usually does Salute and carries a fair sampling of his ranges for drooling over. The bugger also puts in samples of new ranges in mail orders, to boost temptation levels. Nic would be able to tell you, especially if you bribed him with a pint of something Yorkish at Salute.

I know there were only 87 Crabs. That doesn't mean I couldn't have raised a 28-figure unit of them.

[Willz the Wargamer]

Very nice figures Mark.


Willz.

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Out of interest, with Mike's tragic passing, is there anyone else sculpting quality 15mm figures for Eureka these days?

It's been an overly busy year for funerals again- former brother-in-law but good mate (ex RAN, but still a good bloke), the last of Dad's siblings and a cousin (fck off for a while, Norm, it's getting a bit much!). But Mike's passing hit hard, the silly Pommy bastard.

Nic's doing a few Eureka 15/18mm ranges, Mark. Alan Marsh, Paul Clarke and Kosta Heristanidis (had to look up his surname spelling) are three of his sculptors. Alan does 15/18mm, I think Paul also does some, and Kosta does 28mm+- if I remember correctly. Alan's quite a good sculptor, as his ECW, WSS (new) and Sumerians show (I think he did them, but it could be Paul). Nic usually does Salute and carries a fair sampling of his ranges for drooling over. The bugger also puts in samples of new ranges in mail orders, to boost temptation levels. Nic would be able to tell you, especially if you bribed him with a pint of something Yorkish at Salute.

Ah, so we're not totally without hope for some expansions to the SYW range... Some Saxon uhlans would be handy...

I know there were only 87 Crabs. That doesn't mean I couldn't have raised a 28-figure unit of them.

That's very true... I've got 24 French Sailors of the Guard, even though at game-scale there would only be around 4 of 'em!

[RMD]

Very nice figures Mark.


Willz.

Cheers Willz!

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Ah, so we're not totally without hope for some expansions to the SYW range... Some Saxon uhlans would be handy...

Unfortunately I doubt it, mate. I'll ask Nic for you (may I include you as a CC?), but I get the feeling that Nic considers the range complete. Most of the major nations have been covered, and their uniforms are close enough for most of the minor states' and Hanoverian's uniforms to allow them to be done (if you're not too picky). Nic may not see any advantage to doing some of the "funnies", like the S-L-B Crabs, Saxon (or Prussian) uhlans or Fischer's chasseurs-a-pied in pokalem (hence why mine are in tricorns, like proper soldiers).

What it may come down to is having someone, who knows their way around 3D printing software, to modify the existing figures. But that raises copyright concerns, though Nic may give the OK for small numbers, for personal use, to be created for you.

[RMD]

Ah, so we're not totally without hope for some expansions to the SYW range... Some Saxon uhlans would be handy...

Unfortunately I doubt it, mate. I'll ask Nic for you (may I include you as a CC?), but I get the feeling that Nic considers the range complete. Most of the major nations have been covered, and their uniforms are close enough for most of the minor states' and Hanoverian's uniforms to allow them to be done (if you're not too picky). Nic may not see any advantage to doing some of the "funnies", like the S-L-B Crabs, Saxon (or Prussian) uhlans or Fischer's chasseurs-a-pied in pokalem (hence why mine are in tricorns, like proper soldiers).

What it may come down to is having someone, who knows their way around 3D printing software, to modify the existing figures. But that raises copyright concerns, though Nic may give the OK for small numbers, for personal use, to be created for you.

Cheers mate!

Yeah, I can appreciate that and as you know, I'm very much of the school of 'That's near enough'. I'm not ashamed to say that if there was a single code of say, Bosniaks, I'd also use them for everything from Bosniaks to Kleist's Uhlans to the four regiments of Saxon Uhlans that were fighting in Saxony during the WAS (and two in the SYW). Currently, nobody does a half-decent 15/18mm WAS/SYW Uhlan figure of any description, which is a shame. I've even scoured Renaissance and Ottoman ranges, looking for anything remotely suitable, though without luck.

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I went for a bit of a hunt. Apart from some Essex 15mm "Kleist Uhlans" I didn't find much. The Essex would be significantly smaller and, to tell the truth, the figures themselves just looked "off". I like Essex, usually- my Byzantines are Essex- but not those lancers.

I did find these, though: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d ... ice-248749. Perhaps worth an email or a couple of sample figures?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I have a feeling someone (Minifigs?) does 15mm Bosniaks, in their Napoleonics range at least (probably the 1806 Prussians).

Would they be close enough?