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| The 31st Foot at Sobroan |
Regular readers of this blog will have long since twigged that I like Edward Suren's "Willie" range of miniatures. Well-sculpted, well-proportioned with a hint of caricature and tons of panache, these are the cool younger brothers of Stadden's elegant miniatures.
No-one could do refined elegance like Stadden, and no-body could pull off dash like Suren.
It strikes me that his miniatures were designed with the diorama-maker rather than the war-gamer in mind. I say this with the large dioramas that Suren made up for the Forbes Collection of Toy soldiers. Often the ranges are quite limited and the figures have separate weapons that can be a trick to attach as there are often no obvious attachment points. That is left to you. The limitations of the range are there because the range was often created with a single action in mind - I think of the mid-18th century range in this context with Carillion/Ticonderiga or Fontenoy being obvious contenders. If you needed a specialty figure such as Sgt McCabe of the 31st Foot at Sobroan, then you took the figure that suited the conversion, bent and twisted it a little, glued or more likely soldered on a musket an a flag-pole and off you went.
2 comments:
Panache indeed! Very handsomely painted figures. The Jackdaw range came in a close second to Willie although there were some quality control issues with the former based on those I painted some years back. Still, very attractive miniatures that were great fun to paint up.
Best Regards,
Stokes
I remember the Jacdaw Range.
Whatever became of them?
Greg
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