Hi Folks,
On completing the Elan13 ECW sergeant, I fancied another ECW figure, had a delve into my grey army and came up with an Airfix pikeman (actually, I suppose that should read 'white' army in this case).
The kit had a whole pile of things hanging from his waist belt. There was a knapsack, water bottle and his trusty sword. I think this must have been a design hangover from the Napoleonic kits.
Needless to say, I ditched the knapsack and water bottle and hung the sword from a shoulder belt fashioned from electric insulating tape.
Also, the feathers on the helmet just didn't look right until they'd been worked on with my pyrogravure.
Anyway, this is what I came up with. It represents a pikeman of Lord Brooke's Regiment, 1642.
The scan is from the Osprey book 'The English Civil War Armies' by Peter Young, art by Peter Roffe.
The pike provided by Airfix is scaled correctly and the finished kit is quite tall.
This was the picture that I used as reference:-
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Andrew
On completing the Elan13 ECW sergeant, I fancied another ECW figure, had a delve into my grey army and came up with an Airfix pikeman (actually, I suppose that should read 'white' army in this case).
The kit had a whole pile of things hanging from his waist belt. There was a knapsack, water bottle and his trusty sword. I think this must have been a design hangover from the Napoleonic kits.
Needless to say, I ditched the knapsack and water bottle and hung the sword from a shoulder belt fashioned from electric insulating tape.
Also, the feathers on the helmet just didn't look right until they'd been worked on with my pyrogravure.
Anyway, this is what I came up with. It represents a pikeman of Lord Brooke's Regiment, 1642.
The scan is from the Osprey book 'The English Civil War Armies' by Peter Young, art by Peter Roffe.
The pike provided by Airfix is scaled correctly and the finished kit is quite tall.
This was the picture that I used as reference:-
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Andrew