The League of Augsburg
Ottoman cavalry update
I have been slowly but surely painting Ottoman cavalry in between other projects and am just about to base the first units.
I had to get at least one of each figure done in the six packs for the shop and seeing them all together demonstrates how nice this range has turned out.
Recent reading and referenceto source material has reassured me that these figures will be usable for the north African...
Warfare Miniatures Cossack Cavalry- a preview
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| Zaporozhian Cossack, 17th Century, unknown artist. |
Following on from the recent preview of Tatar cavalry, the new mounted cossacks are nearing completion. Though obviously close to the Tatars in space and time Cossacks undoubtedly occupy a more prominent place in Western culture. Though not everyone you could meet would necessarily know who the cossacks are, most would have some vague notion that...
BLB Head to Head #2: Jacobite Highlander v Williamite infantryman
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| Williamite infantry march into the Highlands |
Of course not all Highlanders were Jacobite but, in our period of interest the terms fit together well to describe the feudal warriors who supported the Stuart cause. Men from the Highlands adhering to an individual method of fighting as opposed to a collective one. Highland forces were often small. At Killiecrankie it is doubltful whether Dundee had...
Warfare Miniatures Tatars - a preview
Tatars- a preview.
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| Tatars fighting Swedish cavalry at Warsaw 1656, Lemke |
As a follow on from the Ottoman Sipahis recently released, I've been hard at work on some Tatar cavalry.
Though the idea to add them to the range was originally as a supplement to the Ottoman forces, they certainly can be considered to be an important power in their own right, being a major headache for the fledgeling Russian...
Happy New Year from Quindia Studios!
Clarence Harrison - I hope the turn of the calendar finds everyone well! Looking across my various blogs, 2019 was a very poor year for posting, even though I was quite productive. I painted loads of things I didn't bother with photographing.
I wanted to start off the year with some new units for Beneath the Lily Banners!
The first was painted for my collection by THE Barry Hilton and based by me to...
I wanted to start off the year with some new units for Beneath the Lily Banners!
The first was painted for my collection by THE Barry Hilton and based by me to...
Just like the Elves....
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| OTC01 Ottoman cavalry officers |
No! Don't turn away, I am NOT blogging about Fantasy models!
Just like Santa's elves I have been hidden away in my man cave working away on painting projects which required a bit of attention.
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| OTC04 Ottoman Sipahis with right arm variants |
So, here are some more of the completed Ottoman cavalry. I am starting with some finished code shots and a feature on the officer...
Ottoman cavalry available to pre order
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| mixed codes |
The variants require a bit of explaining.
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| Three of the horses |
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| Three more of the horses |
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| Seventh horse is on the far left here |
There are seven horse variants. A random selection from the seven will be included in each...
Ottoman mounted archers OTC02
The figures were a joy to paint and the sense of movement is tangible. These will be useful for a very wide period of the time from the 1400s to the...
It's that time of year again.. Warfare Christmas give away!
Where did 2019 go? My daughter recently told me a school in Glasgow was in the papers because it had renamed Christmas so as not to offend anyone.... It is now called Sparkle Day...... yes, well...
At least I managed to get With Talon and Clawpublished and it looks like I'll get the Ottoman cavalry under the wire too so they should appear in the shop soon. As my house has to make space for copious...
BLB Head to Head #1: Gardes Francaises v Garden til Fods
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| The epitome of a XVII Guard unit for Beneath the Lily Banners |
I thought it might be an idea to explain some of the BLB mechanisms by directly comparing opposing troops types in a gaming context both from a shooting and close combat perspective and adding a little detail on the units involved for those interested in collecting or building a particular formation.
Where better to start than with two...
Bit of a clean up.. Ottoman cavalry go for production
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| It took a ong time to clean and inspect this lot! |
This fantastic range has been dogged by little challenges along the way. Some related to design, some to production, others to me actually having enough time to undertake the fairly mammoth task of cleaning up 151 master castings of various shapes and sizes. In order to get good clean production castings a careful job in necessary in preparing...
Lucky connections or coincidence?
Not only did I get to sail across the very spots that Spragge, De Ruyter et al manouevred and battled with their fleets in the 17th century, I managed to make several other tangible connections with my periods of interest during the annual sojourn to Antwerp.
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| Spanish Gate at Breda Castle.. some irony in the title - the Spaniards left a water gap in their defences |
The girls wanted a stop off en...