Epic Napoleonic heavy Cavalry. WI sprue review and paint. Plus a comparison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Very belated video. I started this in November.
Here I run through the sprue’s and give some thoughts. Also a side by side comparison.
Many thanks to
Paul Sutcliffe for the photos
Thanks to my supporters
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Hi Leon. Very interesting starter video for your project and the painted figures look excellent, well done mate.
I’ll be catching up on the other vids later today!
Thanks buddy. I’ll be posting more hopefully this week or early next week
Very nice, another rabbit hole entered 😊
😂 that’s how easy it is 🤣. This hobby needs Highly Addictive warning ⚠️ labels.
Epic project m8 . Wicked work. Look forward to more....
Cheers mate
The sculpts look really good. They paint up really well. Well done Leon.
Thanks Vic
Thanks Buddy ......
They look great Leon!
Thanks Nik
Great looking figures. Another interesting Project. Reminds me its been a while since I uploaded a video :-)
Thanks buddy. Time to get the camera out lol
Really nice work on these Leon! I am always impressed with how quickly you get stuff painted. You are off to a great start. Looking forward to following along with this project. Take care
Thanks Dan. I’m hoping I can find a way to get these done fairly quickly. When they turn up.
Great review and very nicely painted Leon. Thanks for the alternative suggestions to fill in the gaps. See you on the next one.
Thanks Paul.
Epic Leon! Your painting style really works with these.
Thanks Ken
Great work
Thanks buddy
thanks for sharing Leon, lovely painting
Thanks buddy
Cracking job Leon, they look really good, look forward to your progress on them mate
Thanks mate
Beautiful paint job on this cavalry, well done!
Thanks buddy
Excellent review Leon,and some wonderful painting,I hope you're well
Thanks buddy.
Great start on this project, the cavalry have come out nicely mate. I will certainly look forward to seeing your progress. I agree you will have to shop around to fill in the gaps for doing Waterloo. Take care Leon 😁👍
Thanks buddy.
Epic 😊🖌️☝️
Cheers 🍻 buddy
Really like this release. I ended up doing as many others have done, splitting the bases in two making them 30mm wide. Cavalry are then 9 figures to 3 bases. I find it much better for a 6x4 and it gives me 20 battalions per box and at least two of most cavalry regiments with enough for some large units.
That’s a great idea. I’ve done the same. Was using 6 bases but I agree, I think 3 bases is much better.
They look awesome, glad to see you're in on this too, will be looking forward to the videos.
Thanks Mate. I’ve been watching your videos. Soz for not commenting. I’m still not well lol.
@@leont66wargaming31 No need to apologise at all, hope you’re feeling better soon.
Good for you Leon, should keep you occupied for most of the year.
Thanks buddy. Yep I reckon so lol
Thanks for solving a mystery Leon. I didn't know they were bugles on the British Cavalry spru. I thought they may be something to do with the Artillery!. My eyesight is not what it was....
Lol. Glad to help. I thought the same until I used magnifying lenses lol
Very very nice job on these Leon mate some of the best jobs on these I've seen. I can't believe you already to plan a 2nd set of starters efore doing the first. If the are anything to go off then I'm looking forward to seeing your progress and how your plan for speed painting the british. 😁👍
Thanks mate. Lol typical wargamer thinking of all the shiny things lol.
I have an idea for the British but I guess I won’t know for sure till they turn up
Nice onw .. sold all my 28mm. Moved into loft and dont have the room. So i'll be getting into this.
Thanks Nath. Yeah I saw you sold it all. I would have bought some but was skint at the time lol. I’ll look forward to seeing how you get on with them mate.
@@leont66wargaming31 yeah good just sat in a cabinet. Epic waterloo will be great for me. Just fit a 6 x 4 in my space. Look forwsrd to seeing more from you on this.
do you still do youtube or posting on another platform
@@chriswareing1991 i'll be back on youtube soon cheers
Looking forward to it my friend
Impressive. I look forward to seeing that lot painted. They remind me of those old metal complete armies one could buy from the magazines, many years ago. They looked basic to start with, but when painted well, as yours are, they fit in perfectly. I'm still on my retreat from Mons project. I had a month away from the brushes with my trip back to the UK, but I'm getting stuck in again now. It's all in plastic 1/72. There are some nice sets around, particularly from HaT, Strelets and Zvezda.
Thanks buddy.
Hope you enjoyed your trip back to blitey. I do find a break from the brushes can be beneficial. Renews the inspiration sometimes
@@leont66wargaming31 it was good to see family and have a good curry etc, but I was extremely pleased to get home to France. C'est la vie mate, c'est la vie! Just finished painting some early WW1 German Currassiers. Quite an enjoyable experience too. I'm starting on German artillery tomorrow (or perhaps this evening). I'll send you some pictures of the cavalry. Not up to your standard I'm afraid, but ok for plastic 1/72.
Love to see more coverage on this epic launch. The starter Sets in themselves offer quite a big army that goes beyond the usual idea of a starter army with around 1000 infantry men, 110 riders, 15 cannons and 10 commanders.
I just wish they would release a quick start set for ppl getting into the game or historicals in general. Something along the 20-30£ range with a single sprue of French and British infantry, a quick start manual with basic rules/painting/story in 15-20pages, a set of basic dice, a measuring device and a cardboard building and paper game mat. Pretty much like Warhammer does since the last two years with their 40£ starter sets for beginners.
That’s a great idea. I’ll get a video done on this topic once I have enough minis painted to showcase a cheap starter box.
look fantastic i think would be 2 hard for me to paint i can just do 28mm but looks a amazing project and dont envy you having to paint all them minis when you get your starter sets. thanks for sharing leon and hope your feeling okay.
Thanks Chris. I know it sounds crazy but I actually think they’re easier than 28mm. Just have to be a bit steadier on the smaller details. But certainly a lot quicker to paint and because they’re so small you can get away with a bit less finesse
The same here. No way will I change scale again (having started with 20mm Hinton Hunt and been through several changes). Now with 28mm and will stay there having painted so many. I hope Warlord are aiming to target non-historic gamers as they can get an army for the price of one large fantasy tank thing :)
I’ll still be painting 28’s. Still my favourite scale. I just like these as I can field bigger armies at home in my 6x4. I’ll save 28’s for when I go to the club and have bigger tables
@@leont66wargaming31 I've never painted that scale but yes always imagined would be a lot harder to paint but I guess if you think about it you have less to paint and less surface area but to be fair the starter box sets do look amazing and like you get a ton of stuff in them. I am really looking forward to seeing them painted and watching your videos of how you are getting on
They look great, they seem to have the right amount of detail for the tiny scale.
Shame they got no plans for Dutch/Nassau troops, Wellington wouldn't have won without them and the Prussians.
My former Dutch cav regiment where I served for 6 years had Quatre Bras and Waterloo battle honors on the standard.
Thanks buddy. I’ll have to find so alternatives for the Dutch. Once I’ve painted all the rest lol.
Ah nice, my regiment didn’t exist back then lol
Use these conversions : BRITISH-
-Belgians
-Hanoverians
-KGL
-Portugese
FRENCH
Dutch
Nassau
Brunswickers
Italians
The Lancashire games Cavalry do seem to match up rather well !
I’ll be getting a few different minis to compare as I work my way through this project
They do look good mate, but I still refuse to be tempted. Sounds like you’re going to have fun with them though. 🙂
Resist my friend 🤣
Nice video, could you tell me which are the other manufacturers that we can use, I can't get exactly understand the names that you mention. Cheers.
Thanks buddy.
Lancashire minis and battle honours (part of blue moon/old glory).
Looking really nice Leon, a great start on this project. Could you get away with a paintjob swap for Dutch at Waterloo at this scale? They were in British supplied equipment I think?
Could probably get away with painting the Belgian troops but the Dutch uniforms and shakos are quite different unfortunately.
@@leont66wargaming31 been a while since I rwad my book on Dutch troops. Been knees deep in India lol
Hi great as always. What scale are the miniatures?
Thanks Richard. Warlord class them as 13.5mm
Leon I’m on the fence. I don’t know which way to go. 25mm, 15mm or this whatever mm ( 12ish I think) at this point I haven’t started any Naps yet? What to do, what to do?
Lol. I feel you’re pain. My first love is 28mm. I found 15mm metals just worked out too expensive. So these epic minis are a cheaper option for smaller scale.
I use 28mm at my club where I can set up big 12x6 tables. The little dudes I’ll be using at home where space is limited
Here you go I solved the problem .Make these conversions with a paint job : Using British = Belgians , Hanoverians , KGL , Portugese . Using French = Dutch , Nassau , Brunswickers , Italians, Swiss ,
Yep using the British as Belgians and Hanoverians already. Portuguese would be a push I think.
French great for all those except the Dutch who’s uniforms were much different by 1815.
Thanks buddy
I can't decide between this or the ACW epic stuff...
Lol. If it helps.
The ACW box gives you enough minis to make up both Union and Confederate armies so you can get away with a smaller investment to start you off.
The Waterloo range needs a starter box for each army, so if you want both British and French you’d need to buy at least 2 starter boxes
I still have plenty of 28mm Napoleonic’s to paint.
As good as these look I couldn’t bring myself to start again in smaller scale unless I paid someone else to do it.
I’d prefer the ACW as they’d be easier to paint.
Yes I still have the ACW ones to paint as well lol. I’ll be trying to get them done this year too.
Be more interested in they were at least true 15mm and closer to old glory figs. Also as much as I like the ranked infantry they will not base out for Napoleon's Battles by Avalon Hill. Considering I have over 3000 figs already (60 to 70% painted) not planning on starting over from scratch. May try and fold in the cav though as it is not too bad and arty guns are actually larger then other lines.
Yep I wish they’d gone true 15mm as well
They wern't going to sink money in to get less returns in the 15mm sector. As it is a lot of new gamers turned up and purchased from the woods. Something 15mm didnt do
@@Rusty_Gold85 The get their captive audience at the expense of turning off older established players? Now we have a choice of 14mm with very limited choices of figs from 2 nations for one battle vs unlimited choices across 20 years of conflict from many nations. To lock their market share they have painted themselves into a very tight corner.
The Belgians wore British uniforms the Dutch wore French style with Austrian shako’s.
Thanks buddy. I just painted a lot of Dutch AB minis and the uniforms were very different to the French. I agree about the Belgian uniforms. I
@@leont66wargaming31 that means I have to repaint my Dutch brigades to the original French (old strip miniature figurines circa 1976)
Still I’m short of French.
I have a lot of painting to do 😀. I think I’ll have to up my standard looking at those cavalry.
Could we get links to the other manufacturers please?
Sorry I don’t have them. I borrowed the pics from Paul Sutcliffe. He posted them on Facebook in the Warlord Games epic page
@@leont66wargaming31 could you link the post then please as I can’t find it?
I looked and I can’t find it either now.
If you search Lancashire miniatures and battle scale miniatures on google it should come up
@@leont66wargaming31 ok dude thanks, but battlescale? I’m the video it sounds like you say battle honours which are not a company in there own right but rather sold under old glory 15s I think.
My point is I don’t know and just need it confirming……
Sorry mate. Yes it’s battle honours. The old glory ones.
Is there a reason why you’re only mounting 5 cavalry to a base instead of a possible 6 per base?
Heavy cavalry in particular would charge boot to boot and you do have spares. If you have only 5 on 1 of the bases, leave the gap in the centre files and replace it with a rock or a piece of battlefield detritus such as a broken wagon wheel or part of a gun carriage.
Unless the rules demand 5 per base or the contents of the base matter??
The bases are set up to take 5 minis. I was thinking of adding an extra mount on each base but in the end decided just to go with how warlord designed them. I have seen some people using mdf bases and splitting them up differently. Definitely agree, boot to boot would look better but this is just how they come
@@leont66wargaming31 yes, I see what you mean, I’ve just taken a look. All the fixing holes would have to be re-drilled and that is a messy job and prone to errors. I’ve decided to paint the frames I have starting with the ACW and use the fast paint system. If I make a pigs ear of them then I’ll stick to 18mm and not look too close at the finished article.
@@leonleese4919 Just chop the studs off and Glue wherever you like mate ?
Shmoking is very bad