Thursday 5 July 2012

Can't Beat Davy - Jacobite Rebellion 1689 Figures

Sir John Hanmar's regt



I've been chatting on TMP, to fellow Nine Years War nut John , otherwise known as "cantbeatdavy", he's been busy painting up regiments for the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim.
John's been using quite a few of my flags for his figures so I asked him to send me some pics of his troops and I'll post them on my blog for all the world to see! (Well, you anyway??)
John explained that the figures are mostly from (the now US owned I hear) Venexia, supplied by Martin at Vexillia, a few Donnington and a few from Essex minis. The bases are from the excellent Warbases and they're based up for Fields of Glory rules. #
The flags are from myself, Flags of War and he's ordered more flags from Tinytintroops!
John also said he was quite pleased with comments received at Q-Con a few weeks ago, but he's sure he's made a few mistakes painting some of them up. I think they look great and he's made a great job on them all. I love the cannonballs flying out of the artillery, I need to know how that was done!!!!

Nice one John!! and thanks for letting me show your figures!

Dutch - Brandenburg

Danish - Guard Til Fod

Kirke's/Selwyn's

Dutch - Blew Guard

Huguenot - Le Caillemotte

Huguenot - Du Cambon

Huguenot - de Meloniere

Dutch - Garde te Paard

Dutch - Aughrim

Allied Artillery - Look at them cannonballs!!!!!

Allied Generals

French - Zurluban

King James' Footguards

Lord Bellow's regt

Jacobite Artillery

Earl of Antrim's regt

Earl of Clanricarde regt

Boissleau's regt

Irish Militia??

Lord Louth's regt


King James' Lifeguard


44 comments:

  1. Bloody lovely and great cannonball effects, now go back to fecking work...slackass!

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  2. Those are cool and your flags look good with them. I finished the new ripple tutorial by the way.

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  3. Super looking collection no doubt and the cannon balls effect is superb!

    Christopher

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  4. wow! what a great and beautiful army! (... her, armies!)
    the flags are very good! If I could know who can make such beautiful flags!
    Please give him all my congratulations! (grmmmbllllll)

    The canon ball? maybe a pin with the little ball hidden with the smoke?
    (but it will be difficult and too big?)

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  5. Jacobites! 'Housands of 'em! A superb collection, well done John.

    Your flags look great as well John.

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  6. really nice! congratulations!
    cool sceneries on the bases;

    Best regards

    thefrenchjester "10th labour is basing figures"

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  7. Fine looking troops, and a lot of them too! Best wishes on the game, Dean

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  8. Beautiful work...another fine modeler!

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  9. hi all.thanks for the great comments.they look completely different on the screen.weird.the blew guard could def be calmed down a little.but its hard getting the right mix of colours to allow them to stand out.im really pleased overall.as for the cannon ball...you got it in one.drill out the end of the barrel place a fine wire and superglue.the smoke is cotton wool and the ball is made of blue tac painted black.a seriously huge thanks to Ray i avalanched him with dozens of pics this afternoon and couldnt believe it when i saw them tonite.thanks for all your support.i owe you...

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  10. ohh thats "cantbeatdavy" from TMP.

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  11. Hi Ray,

    Really nice pictures and I love the cannon ball thing. A plastic bead on the end of a short length of thick fishing line drilled into the guns barrel perhaps? I think I shall give it a go myself!!

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  12. beautiful colors, as usual. :)

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  13. These are a terrific bunch of troops. Well painted and the sheer number is impressive. And the flags are as always stellar Ray.

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    1. Whatever Anne, you're going down!!!!!!

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    2. That was Fran, Anne. He said he was filling out a report because he'd turned his PC off, the lying git!

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  14. Nice - Thanks for posting this collection!

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  15. Thanks for sharing the pictures

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  16. Lovely collection Ray !

    Best regards Michael

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  17. No matter how well minis are painted, only good flags can bring them to life!

    It's nice to see what comes around, isn't it?

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  18. Congrats to John for the figs, and to you for the flags. Those stands are really nice, hope I'll see them on a table one day!
    My favourite is Earl of Antrim's regt...
    Phil.

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  19. That is some seriously nice figures John has love those cannonballs!

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  20. Very nice painting and basing. Yes the cannon balls just look fantastic and great work with your flags. Thanks to John for sharing and you for showing

    Ian

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  21. They really are a bit good; those cannonballs! Must be great to see your work along side them, well done both of you!

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  22. I'm a big fan of flying balls. Must try and make some for myself.

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  23. OMG just reading all these has inspired me further.Aughrim here we come!!
    again really really nice of everyone.and a special thanks to Ray {again} and also to Martin Stephenson who has been patient n helpfull over the last few weeks supplying the figs.

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    1. My pleasure John! I'm glad its inspired you to paint more of the figures!

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  24. Lovely job on these, especially the bases.

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  25. I meant to ask what software package do you use to design the flags??

    Cheers

    Ken

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  26. Happy you're still going strong Ray. I missed some good content (inc boobs off course)last weeks but I'm catching up quickly...

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  27. Looking good.. really finishes off the units indeed.

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  28. Great looking figures, the cannon balls are very cool!

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  29. nice looking troops....good excuse for another game and AAR!

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  30. So varied. Impressive.

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  31. Ray, one thing you may want to consider doing, is creating a PAGE here, showing photos of all your NYW painted regiments on a single page. You could also show the regiment names and colourings as a list. May be useful to some folks who visit you.

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  32. yes i agree,all in one place,instead of lookin through all the other pages.not that thats bad...but it would be quicker.

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  33. Wonderfull collection of figures, and that artillery is awesome!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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