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hurrying heavy horse...

Posted on June 19, 2008

Tags: 54mm, english-civil-war

Fairly often when searching the web for information on the 'A Call to Arms' English Civil War figures you'll come across a statement along the lines of 'Yes, the figures are nice, but there are no cavalry available.' Not true! The company makes two s...

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yellow dogs...

Posted on June 19, 2008

Tags: 54mm, english-civil-war

The fourth 24 figure unit has been completed. Notwithstanding that all my other units are generic, for some reason I think I'll label this unit as Talbot's regiment. The yellow coats would be appropriate but I'm not sure about the color of the pants....

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kudos to michigan toy soldier company...

Posted on June 19, 2008

Tags: 54mm, english-civil-war

Bravo! I've been told that Michigan Toy Soldier Company provides excellent service. My first experience with them supports that. I recently ordered some more ECW figures from them and when I received the stuff it wasn't quite what I wanted. I had mi...

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let slip the dogs of war...

Posted on June 19, 2008

Tags: 54mm, english-civil-war

Big-Fig Battle Day finally arrives. I must confess... I've had a decadent wargame weekend. On Saturday I participated in a Zulu vs. British game. On Sunday we play-tested Quindia Studio's 'Victory Without Quarter' ECW rules. Both days were exquistly ...

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junior officer granted brevet...

Posted on June 19, 2008

Tags: 54mm, english-civil-war

My collection is a bit shy on command figures. Eventually I'll have to jump into conversions simply to have enough flag bearers. But I've been stalling on that. This gregarious sergeant is a stock figure. He'd probably make a good addition to the lin...

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a touch of the blues...

Posted on June 18, 2008

Tags: 54mm, english-civil-war

Somewhere, on some computer, at some time, I saw a web site with a simple listing of coat/cuff/breeches colors for the various ECW regiments. Of course, I can't find it now. Haythornthwaite shows this blue/brown color combination as in use by the tra...

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