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28mm Irish figures for the Wars of the Roses period

Started by Dave Knight, June 22, 2020, 08:46:29 PM

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Dave Knight

Any recommendations?  I am aware of Perry and Claymore

Mick Hession

Antediluvian miniatures have some nice-looking figures and there is also Old Glory. I've only seen the website pictures so can't say how they would mix with other ranges.

Cheers
Mick

Dave Knight

Antediluvian miniatures and Claymore are one in the same I believe

Nick Harbud

Have you looked at Gripping Beast?  These are somewhat earlier figures from their Age of Vikings range, but should help fill the ranks of the great unwashed.

Timeline Miniatures also have gallowglass and other Irish figures for early renaissance that might be suitable.


Nick Harbud

Erpingham

Quote from: Dave Knight on June 22, 2020, 10:02:49 PM
Antediluvian miniatures and Claymore are one in the same I believe

Antediluvian are the ones with the Irish. 

Crusader have some Irish Skirmishers in their Hundred Years War range which would fit later 15th century.  Mixture of bows and javelins.

Redoubt also have a small early Rennaisance range of Irish but they are not pictured on their website.

Dave Knight

The Crusader kern look good
The real difficulty is finding figures gto represented the nobles

Mick Hession

Old Glory do mounted nobles in their Wars of the Roses range. I don't think anyone does dismounted nobles other than in command packs so I suspect you are limited to conversions from galloglass figures.

Cheers
Mick

Erpingham

I know these are early 16th century but nice inspiration

http://camisado1500s.blogspot.com/2018/01/
http://camisado1500s.blogspot.com/2018/02/

The second one feature Redoubts Noble cavalry, with caveats.


belisiriaus

Hi
I got engaged with the irish through a WoR game and have used the Old Glory Kern, Gallowglass and mailed cavalry.

They look very old school but once painted and in mass look very good. I have shed some blood drilling out the hands of the kern to take the javelins or darts.

It is also worth having a look at Hoka Hey Wargaming  who make a nice range of figures based on the Albrecht Durer illustrations. I have used a lot of the Hoka Hey figures for my Elizabethan age Irish figures- battle of Yellow Ford etc.

Period Drift??

Regards
Peter Studd aka Belisiriaus

DougM

Just noting that Wargames Atlantic have just released their plastic Irish box. You could do some very clever things with a sharp blade and Perry plastic medieval.
"Let the great gods Mithra and Ahura help us, when the swords are loudly clashing, when the nostrils of the horses are a tremble,...  when the strings of the bows are whistling and sending off sharp arrows."  http://aleadodyssey.blogspot.com/