"Jacobite Rebellion Figures on Der Alte Fritz" Topic

I have posted pictures of my Front Rank Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 figures on my blog. Please click on the pictures to enlarge the view. I have painted 60 Highlanders over the past two weeks and am currently in a crazed state of mind that has me wanting to double that number in the near future. To see the results for yourself, go to:

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Excellent!! Really well painted..Puts my efforts in the shade!!

That's what I hate about you Fritz.
You decide "Hey, I thik I will do Jacobites!" and two weeks later, they are up on your blog.

I have been dabbling for more than ten years, and have yet to have a game.

Very nice! What brands do you have besides FR?

DAF,
Very nice.
If you want a bit more variation, have a look at Redoubt

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They are a bit taller than FR but then a few giants can be scattered into your regiments and as they are multi-part you can get some great poses. Codes are CWX 26 and 27.

Those are fantastic. Nice massed effect remniscint of the famous paintings. And 2 thumbs up for the nicely rendered jacobite flags.

The only figures that I have so far are Front Rank. I have a couple bags of RSM, but they do not have the animation of the Front Rank figures, so I don't know that I will paint them.

De Ligne: thanks for the tip on the Redoubt figures. Those look very nice and I think that I will add a clan or two of them. I also recall that Foundry has some nice Perry-sculpted Highlanders in its ECW range. I am currently using some of my Suren Black Watch as Jacobites until I can paint more actual Jacobites, but these figures would also look nice painted as the other side. I looked at the Warrior figures and didn't care for them that much – very rough in comparison to today's figures.

John: I've been wanting to paint this period for over twenty years. I've finally gotten around to doing it with a little campaign incentive provided by my group.

My favorite Jacobite figures are OLD Front Rank. They had a slim line that the current chubby lads displaced. That's a pity. The only fault I have is the VERY thin Lochaber axes. Even sitting in the "to do" box, they just snapped off. They are among the most anatomically perfect figures I have seen.
I wish I could get more.

Dixon has a nice range too.
Old Glory has a few gems, a few dogs. The usual.

The Jacobite figures are beautiful!

I have always been so interested by your figures that I have only now realized how uniformly excellent your terrain looks. If you get the time, it would be quite inspiring to hear your techniques and which materials you use.

Superb! But, of course, you need more pipers! ;-)

I have pix (scans, more like) of some of my Jacobites available, but they are not as nicely placed and photographed as these. Click on the Jacobite link from here:

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Great figures – the shear challenge of facing all those individually painted kilts has put me off, despite my beloved wife's Highland roots (and my second son's persistent bagpiping)

Fritz.
What rules do you use?
Do you shoot in more than one rank?
Do your rules require that you put sword and targe men or musket men in the front rank, or is that irrelevant?

We (Bill and I – I'm not using the royal 'we') are going to use the BAR rules with some modifications to make the Jacobites a little tougher in the melees. I plan to base the figures in 3 ranks, having read (in Duffy, I believe) that they were trained to fire in this manner. I am also assuming that everyone has a musket regardless of whether or not the figure has a musket. From my readings, the Jacobites were well armed with firearms. So the figure pose does not matter.

Another question for Fritz?

I'm just starting to put together a blog and haven't been able to figure out how to make it so the viewer can click on the picture to blow it up. How do you get this setup on blogspot?

Very much admire your army.
The speed of your paint jobs, though, is really frightening me – considering my 5 7YW Hanoverian battalions output during the last 2 years. Each about 16 figs (30 mm flats in that case) My best year was about 300, but that's a long time ago. Envy borderline has definitely been passed. ;-)
But I did sculpture a great many trees, recently. My terrain needed it. Does a tree add to my overall output ? Say, 2 trees equal 1 miniature?

Cheers,
Christian

By the way, Old Fritz
A bit off topic Highlanders. I noticed the heavy guns you have with your Prussian army. I recognized the barrels. A friend from England gave me some models about 20 years ago. I don't know the manufacturer. I think its a series of lace war French guns for 25 or 28 mm figs. Could you tell me if they are still around and who is the foundry?

Thanks in advance,
Chistian

Christian: I use the French SYW gun models (12pd, 8pd and 4pd Valliere system cannon) from Elite Miniatures. The Swedish 4-pdr is shown in the pictures that I posted today.

These are beautiful works of art with a lot of detail carved onto the gun barrel. If anyone questions their use in the Prussian army, I simply state that they were captured pieces and the woodwork was repainted blue. You can purchase the castings directly from Elite Miniatures in the UK. They recently added march attack poses for the Prussians and French in the SYW range.

I don't know how I paint the way that I do. Once I get going I just seem to get highly focused on finishing them in a certain amount of time. I try to spend one hour a day painting and probably add 4 hours over the weekend. They get done quickly under this system. I think that enthusiasm for the project or the particular range of figures also contributes to higher painting output. Painting relaxes after a long day at work, but it is also simply a fun thing to do.

BTW, I want to thank the person on TMP who came up with the idea of grouping 5 or 6 different Highlander poses and painting them in the same colors, in order to batch paint without the whole clan looking the same.

cracking work mate

I have some painted pics of foundry and oldglory mixed here

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cheers
matt

If you are looking for more highlanders, Eureka does some in its ECW range. There is an especially nice piper (actually based on an 18thC Jacobite Piper withe laced coat), and a Highland Gentleman based on a famous portrait of 1689.

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Piper…
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Rest of the range…
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Excellent work as always, Alte Fritz! For being such a fast painter, your fellows still look so darn great.
If I can crank out 3 infantry in 28mm in a nights painting I'm in a good mood.

A "corrie-handed" piper, as we say! Playing on the right side. I never know if this was more common in the old days, or if the painter simply reversed his subject.

Hey, great figures Alte Fritz… I have some FR Jacobites -- honestly, they're beautiful, but the plaids and stockings defeated me… so slow to paint. I could feel myself getting old.

Your pix have me thinking of going back.

What I did was bought a bunch of the Front Rank American Revolution/F&I War militia type to mix with the Low Landers. I used some French SYW and Austrian types for mounted officers.

I think the idea that they all wore that goofy blue cap is a wheeze: men of a certain class were very vain in those days and would have been really turned out. Also, many on Charles' staff came from the Continent and would have continental clothes.

Couple of questions:

1. What kind of paints are you using?
2. All the figures have a nice, dull "flat".. is that a varnish?

Sizewise, I found Dixon highlanders mixed in well, the style is not dissimiliar either.

Check this out for some inspiration (scroll down):

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For paints, I use a number of different brands including old Ral Partha (now called Iron Wind Miniatures or IWM), some of the Howard Hues colors, Reaper Paints (reds, greens and blues) and some craft paints that I picked up at Michaels' Stores. These are all acrylic flat paints. I give them a spray of Testors Dull Kote (flat finish) to finish them off.

I will have to take a closer look at the Dixon figures. I wasn't aware that they had any. I like your idea of mixing in some FIW/AWI militia figures into the Lowland regiments.

As for the caps, I will have to defer to some of our friends in Scotland as to whether or not they wore any other type of headgear. My guess is that the cap was prevalent. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Prince Charles issued a decree that everyone was supposed to wear some piece of "Highland wear" in their clothing ensemble, be it cap or plaid or whatever.

Two things, Alte Fritz…

-I've tried (and tried) Dullcote and it's always like a semi-gloss. It has a sort of "sheen", but your figs look dead flat. How's that done?

-Front Rank. Great figures and the Jacobites are some of their best. Alas, the new Marlborough types don't mix in at all. They'd be great for lowlanders and Welsch levies, etc. Too bloody tall.

Look at those Dixons and also the FR SYW lines… Flag bearers, drummers, mtd officers, hatless linetroops, etc. The line is rich with possibilties.

Have you seen this Osprey:

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Pretty clear from the plates and texts the the Jacobites were in all manner of get-ups! (From what I've read, poor and hard-scrabble pre-industrial Scotland was a tough life.)

One other thing… There's a famous painting of Charles fleeing Culloden. Tried to find it on line today. His staff is all around him, and nearly all are in tricornes of one fashion or another.

Also, don't forget the AWI gunners in civilian clothes, too!

Best of luck -- post more photos!