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Posted by Ochoin on 12 Jun 2025, 05:55

To fill in gaps in existing armies, I bought & received 12 Half-orc crossbowmen, 12 ECW musketeers & some heater shields to glue on some Red Box figures.

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As per previous orders, the figures are crisp & beautifully detailed & perfectly match my existing figures.

I can't wait to start painting.

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Posted by steve_pickstock on 12 Jun 2025, 07:48

Any chance 9f seeing more of those musketeers? Where did they come from?
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Posted by Ochoin on 12 Jun 2025, 08:16

Hi, Steve.

I work with a chap who has a figure printing business in Adelaide.
He mainly does sci-fi & Fantasy in 28mm.

The way it works is, I give him an order eg ECW musketeers. I give him a link to the other figures in my army so he can match the style. In this case - Tumbling Dice. He finds suitable files which he shows me so I can decide. He buys this file & adds it to the cost.

Then he scales them to my requirements. NB he understands 1/72 but in this case, these are 'big" 1/72 so he made them 2mm bigger. In the past, he's sent trial figures but I don't bother any more. These match the TD & ACTA figures in my armies perfectly.

As you can see,these figures are *far* more detailed than any plastic or metal figure. The plastic they're printed in is really very robust - good quality stuff. The scabbards bend but do not snap.

If you have a printer, you can do all this. Or find someone like my chap - I could send you his details but Adelaide is quite a distance from you (& from me : over 2,000 kms but we're in the same country).

I need to paint the ECW figures for a Show in 3 weeks. I'll photograph them then & post.

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Posted by steve_pickstock on 12 Jun 2025, 09:16

There are two reasons I asked 1) was that what I could see looked pretty bloody good, very 'modern' looking - in that they look more like our current view of what these guys looked like rather than something out of Jacob de Gheyn (1630's fashions in the 1640s), so they're really impressive poses. But 2) now, I'm not saying nobody ever did it this way but the guy on the blu-tac is loading his musket the wrong way round. It's more usual to put the musket but on your left-hand side and use your right hand to put the powder and ball in than the way he is doing it. It's a perfectly usable pose but that was the thing that stood out to me.

I have a friend who actually does 3D prints for me, problem is that I don't always get what I asked for. Various reasons. We tend to pull stls off Thingiverse or Cults3D though my friend is quite adapt at 3D sculpting as long as it's machinery
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Posted by Ochoin on 12 Jun 2025, 12:31

steve_pickstock wrote: 2) now, I'm not saying nobody ever did it this way but the guy on the blu-tac is loading his musket the wrong way round.


Sigh. The great Bug Bear of the hobby.
PSR's 'Historical Accuracy' is their most damning of categories.
For example, I need just a little more French Line cavalry & I was looking at the splendid Italeri box.
But they get the shabraques wrong. I just can't buy them.
https://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Re ... px?id=1101

I'll live with the incorrect loading technique but you know, every time I look at the figure......

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Posted by steve_pickstock on 12 Jun 2025, 12:45

Ochoin wrote:I'll live with the incorrect loading technique but you know, every time I look at the figure.....

Sorry :(

But to put it in context, if he turns like that to load his musket, but everyone else in the line is loading theirs the correct way, if there was an accident, he is looking directly at it!
I've had it happen to me. I was looking the right way, the other guy was wrong and something set his powder off right in my face. Fortunately it was a 'FLOOOOFF!' rather than a 'FADOOOM!', so apart from some harsh words, that was it but ... you know?
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Posted by Ochoin on 12 Jun 2025, 19:09

I appreciate your expert knowledge, Steve.
Constructive criticism is valuable & this forum is invaluable because of you & people like you - people who know what they're talking about.

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Posted by steve_pickstock on 12 Jun 2025, 21:41

Ochoin wrote: - people who know what they're talking about

Well that would be a first - for me anyway, like I said I would never say you can't use that pose because hey! it's a battle you do what you need to, but it stands out to me. Please post these figures when you've painted, I'm eager to see more of them.
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