Napoleonic & ECW wargaming, with a load of old Hooptedoodle on this & that


Monday 21 December 2015

ECW - Guest Appearance

Steve C, that noted collector, convertor and painter of Hinton Hunt figures, very kindly sent me some pictures of ECW figures in his collection, and I think they are so good that I felt I might wallow in a little reflected glory and share his photos here. I emphasise that these figures are not mine - I sincerely wish they were!





Steve describes them thus:

Royalist: four companies of the King's Lifeguard Regiment of Foote - Colonel Lord Lindsey's, Lt Colonel William Leighton's, Major Robert Markham's and a  Captain’s Company, with Charles 1st at their head . 

Parliamentarian : Earl of Essex’s  Regiment. 

All are Hinton Hunt figures with a couple of Les Higgins conversions.

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    1. They certainly remind me that I am just dabbling in this hobby!

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  2. Careful, Foy, the glory intensity from that lot is blinding and possibly even fissile!

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  3. Now isn't the mounted figure between the two dismounted HHs a Kennington or some such? He certainly isn't a Hinton or a Higgins.
    Lovely units !

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    1. Position of left hand and big gauntlet on short arm suggests he might have been a Kennington Napoleonic French mounted infantry officer.

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    1. I lost count, but I think the red unit is about 74 men.

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  5. Indeed! Splendid (and somehow rather Christmasy).

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    1. Agreed. That is a lovely visual Christmas present, a mass of Old School goodness.

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  6. 74 men. what sze of game is that? I am scratchng around with 24 in a Hinton ECW unit .
    Dare we ask hw jany in each army?

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    1. We can certainly ask, but, since I know nothing about them, I don't expect an answer.

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    2. A clue - Steve tells me he has about 1500 ECW soldiers altogether - this sounds like a big operation...

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