"15mm Mirliton Later Polish - Maciek Kwieciński" Topic

Not sure if this has been posted here before but if it has it's worth reposting:

The latest addition to the [Vexillia Limited]] gallery features some excellent brushwork by Maciek Kwieciński who runs the Blog Maciejus as Maciejus_exe. In fact the four cavalry bases won the 5th painting competition run by Contest Model Forum Strategies.

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Martin Stephenson
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Gorgeous! I'd like to try Mirliton some time!

Can't access the extra images, even though I have a Google account.

From what I can see on this page, the painting is superb, especially the heraldry (assuming it's hand done), but why do so many people mount wargaming models on such thick bases? I can see the point for a 54 mm, or larger model, as a display piece, but I can't see any reason to use "plinths" for wargaming figures.

15mm figures are more delicate. Thicker bases means you don't handle the figures when picking them up and moving them around. Plus this takes care of those wanting to pick up your figures and having a heavy hand when doing so. Horses for courses; it may not be for you but there are reasons people do things differently.

As to the painting, quite astoundingly good and in this scale probably some of the best I have seen (and trust me on this, I have seen some of the best in person).

Mirliton are an awesome figure company. I am lucky enough to have some. Wish they were easier to get here. They do have good service from Italy though but Little Wars in Texas no longer imports them and my secondary source here probably stopped doing custom orders again.

If it wasn't for the fact that my time is too little, I would look into importing these myself. I have relatives that live within an hour or so of Mirliton. One of these days, I will relay the story on trying to find them on my last visit to Italy. There can be nor more confusing thing than finding an address in a smaller city in Italy… trust me on this!

Definitely worth it, Martin, as I had otherwise missed them. What a treat !

Phil

Those are really nice. Mirliton are pretty fine figures. I have some of their ancients and they are well detailed and clean cast

I will relay the story on trying to find them on my last visit to Italy. There can be nor more confusing thing than finding an address in a smaller city in Italy… trust me on this!

I can imagine. I used to go to a gym 50 meters away and still had problems finding them.

The painting of individual figures is excellent, but the overall effect of the army as depicted in the 2nd image is only average for some reason. Perhaps the grass is too bright or too busy, or the reds (esp. flags) are too intense, or something else. I agree with "steamingdave47" in that the plinth-like bases, don't help in this regard.

It is an interesting question as to whether one should paint and mount for close-up effect, or for view-at-a-distance effect. Most seem to assume that the latter will take care of itself, but I'm not so sure.

Mark