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Post by barr7430 » Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:15 pm

Nice Jim! very Nice 8)
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Post by Churchill » Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:38 pm

Ray.
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Post by CoffinDodger » Sun Oct 10, 2010 6:00 am

Greystreak wrote: Never underestimate old age and guile! :lol:
Bryce,

I like that. I can't quite remember all of it but I think it went something like:

"Old age and guile will always out youth and enthusiasm".

Regards and thanks for the kind comments from your goodself, Barry and Ray,

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Post by CoffinDodger » Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:49 pm

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Dorrington's Regiment pose for a portrait just outside the gates of Derry only to find that some bugger has locked them out.

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Regiment number nine - three to go!

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Post by CoffinDodger » Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:21 pm

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Nine Battalions on their magnetic transportation bases.

Actually I might do these bases up a bit to use on the battlefield as an order marker can be placed in one corner and a status marker in the other.

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Post by Churchill » Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:53 pm

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Post by CoffinDodger » Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:06 pm

Gentlefolk.

I have just realised that I have boobed! Mark Copplestone's figures represent the armies of 1665 to 1680 and I have painted some as the Irish brigade which, obviously, were not around at that time.

Now, I quite like the look of my wee men and it was only the release of the cavalry in buff coats that made me realise my mistake.

I have no intentions of repainting this lot and now wonder what sort of flak I am going to get from the purists?

Your comments would be most appreciated along with suggestions on how I tackle the cavalry. Do I paint them in later uniforms or keep to the "buff"?

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Post by obriendavid » Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:33 am

Jim, if you want to be taken seriously in this hobby then I suggest you just give the figures to me and start the project again properly :lol:

Glad to be of help :wink:
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ps, on the other hand if you're gaming with a friendly group of friends like us then your figures will be welcomed.
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Post by CoffinDodger » Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:16 pm

obriendavid wrote: ...give the figures to me.
But they're not Russian and there's not a monk in sight. :lol:

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Post by conflans » Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:28 pm

I can't speak with any authority on French cavalry of the period; however, I have read in several sources that, in the filed, Savoyard cavalry and some Milanese cavalry kept the buffcoat outside of the uniform coat through the WSS. If you kept the cavalry in buffcoats you wouldn't get any argument from me, at least. It might be nice to keep a unit or two in buffcoats and have others in the more traditonal coats. You can call it artistic license. Also, in my opinion, your foot units look terrific. I wish I had your skill.
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Post by barr7430 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:08 pm

As one or two of you may know, I have written on this subject before :oops:
There are those with tension of the sphincter who may require medicaments as a result of your quite blatant and unforgiveable gaffe Jim.
Then there are the other 5.7 billion inhabitants of planet earth who

a. Do not have a time machine
b. Are not reincarnated having orginially lived during the period 1670-1730
c. Do see daylight occasionally
d. Have some friends apart from the imaginary ones who live under the stairs
e. Haven't written a book on 'Button thread and its use by Jewish tailors in Auxerre during March 1684'
f. Have lifted a brush to paint a figure more than none-ce


So, on balance, I see no reason for the WFP to make a night raid with armed back up in Motherwell anytime in the next 100 years..
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Post by Churchill » Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:51 pm

Ray.
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Post by huevans07 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:25 pm

CoffinDodger wrote:Gentlefolk.

I have just realised that I have boobed! Mark Copplestone's figures represent the armies of 1665 to 1680 and I have painted some as the Irish brigade which, obviously, were not around at that time.

Now, I quite like the look of my wee men and it was only the release of the cavalry in buff coats that made me realise my mistake.

I have no intentions of repainting this lot and now wonder what sort of flak I am going to get from the purists?

Regards,

Jim
You unforgivable, blundering fool. How could you have made such a foolishly incompetent error?

But bear in mind that Charles II was secretly Louis XIV's Catholic-worshipping bum-lackey for much of this period. And that the English army would have contributed regts to his Sunniness's endless Dutch and German campaigns. If you want redcoats, simply change the flag to a generic Cross of St George and you can present them as English subsidy troops fighting for France.
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Post by CoffinDodger » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:48 pm

huevans07 wrote: You unforgivable, blundering fool. How could you have made such a foolishly incompetent error?
Sheer talent? :roll:

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Post by toggy » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:34 pm

Jim,

I think its an automatic -1 on all dice throws so we all know what that means with your luck - 0 every time.

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