| JonFreitag | 03 Mar 2017 10:56 a.m. PST |
I recently received a package of samples from Lancashire Games' new range of 18mm Napoleon in Egypt figures.
A preview of the French in Kleber uniform and artillery in bicorne can be found on the Palouse Wargaming Journal blog: link |
| Reactionary | 03 Mar 2017 12:27 p.m. PST |
Bit gnomish for my tastes. |
 deadhead  | 03 Mar 2017 4:05 p.m. PST |
Sounds a bit gnomophobic to me…. Just because these figures are a bit squat, massively nosed and short in the limbs…is no reason to dismiss them. If you ignore their proportions, with their resemblance to any humans you have ever met, they are fine modellings, otherwise…. These days you simply cannot reject anything that does not conform to what you think humans should look like…reduced to any scale………. We must all welcome diversity (I am told that, at work every day, and I am totally signed up to this…it is truly something I welcome….truly………) |
| Supercilius Maximus | 03 Mar 2017 5:13 p.m. PST |
Yes, but…well…I mean, come on – an entire range of Gerard Depardieus? I do like the guy tearing a big lump of a large black pudding, though. |
 Mister Tibbles | 03 Mar 2017 5:26 p.m. PST |
They would be great for Flintloque in 18mm. |
| Prince Alberts Revenge | 03 Mar 2017 5:54 p.m. PST |
I actually like them quite a bit, If I wasn't heavily invested in 20mm I would buy from this range. I prefer a bit of caricature in my sculpts. |
| von Winterfeldt | 04 Mar 2017 12:38 a.m. PST |
"Just because these figures are a bit squat, massively nosed and short in the limbs…is no reason to dismiss them." Is this the same man who usually praises 1 / 72 scale figures due to their better proportion to the one and true scale? |
| deadhead | 04 Mar 2017 5:22 a.m. PST |
Alas yes. Saul on the Road to Damascus…….. I recently sat through an all day course at work…it was compulsory…it was all about "Welcoming Diversity". It was a truly marvellous experience and run by a very overweight woman who…..AAAAAAAARGH, there I go again |
| Eclipsing Binaries | 14 Mar 2017 3:24 a.m. PST |
I really wanted to like these. I had high hopes. I hate being negative about anybody's work but I'm struggling with the disappointment. Nice painting though. Well done Jonathan. |
marmont1814  | 21 Mar 2017 5:21 a.m. PST |
very sad your all saying these negative things, the figures are not squat or gnome like, but your loss
Go look at the Wargames Illustrated review and on our gallery their are painted samples of the cavalry |
| Tango01 | 17 Apr 2020 8:45 p.m. PST |
Those looks good to me…
Amicalement
Armand
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| Legionarius | 22 Feb 2024 7:54 p.m. PST |
I have British and French and I use them for the Caribbean campaigns. I like them very much. They are solid figures and paint up well. I have learned to appreciate different sculpting styles and these figures have lots of character. They are sold as 18mm but in my view they are more compatible with sturdy 20mm figures than with actual 18mm ones. They are definitely not compatible with 15mm miniatures. |
goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
