From the German 'Kabinettskriege' - Cabinet Wars: a period of limited conflict from the Peace of Westphalia (1648) to the French Revolution (1789).

You don't get me, I'm part of the Union

With a hell of a shout, it's "Out, brothers, out!" And the rise of the factories [Parliament's] fall.  


To be honest I think ECW clubmen could be found on both sides, and neither.  But these, the latest completed items from my current WiP batch are destined to support the King in four days' time at the Battle of Whalley, 21st April 1643.  

The figures are all Minifigs, with the outer two bases being completed yesterday to bulk out my single clubmen base (the one with the banner), albeit I replaced the leader figure wearing a lobster pot helmet, with a dashing redhead carrying his hat.  I've added some figures with firearms to form rudimentary 'wings' of shot.  I couldn't resist adding a blunderbuss to the mix, and this figure is a Royalist cavalryman cut off at the waist and added to the legs of a clubman.

 

The mêlée weaponry is all scratch built from my bits box as the figures now come with very thin and dainty weaponry that will bend if you so much as look at it.  And, I wanted them to match with the weapons carried by the existing figures.  And here the temptation was to include one carrying a scythe ...


... and a couple carrying clubs, as nod to their identity, this one's dressed like the town's preacher.


Meanwhile, the rest of the WiP batch, various ECW command figures show little progress from the last time they appeared in a post.


In the above, the shepherd shown complete in a previous post, has now acquired a dog (from Warbases) and both are ready for basing.  Also, in sight is the Minifigs lobster-potted figure that was removed from the existing clubmen base.  These won't be ready for the Battle of Whalley game, which will be the next post but hopefully not too long after that. 

4 comments:

  1. Nice touch with the “get off my land” bloke! Angry villagers for ECW are must.

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    1. Thanks, this WiP batch is taking much longer than expected, albeit I've had some real world intrusions to slow me down.

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  2. Would a Warbases dog work as a Great Pyrenees in 20mm? I've been wanting to model Nyra for the gaming table, but have been unable to find a suitably scaled figure. Lovely work on the clubmen. Had no idea.

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  3. A nicely constructed group of clubman. Did you have the figures in your collection, or did you have to go out and purchase them?

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