"English late renaissance figure choices" Topic

I wanted to do up some 28mm English for a small, late renaissance contingent for Dutch Wars etc. The problem is that the Old Glory longbowmen/billmen figures are a little goofy looking. From an artistic POV, I like the TAG archers much better but they are from 1544.

The question is is it better to have slightly anachronistic looking but nicer sculpts or accurately dressed but cartoon-ish figures?

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You could try Foundry's wars of religion range

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or Foundry's sister company casting room miniatures Tudor/Elizabethan range

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Old Glory is at times hit or miss. I have mostly TAG and Foundry in my collection. I would stick with TAG.

I was also going to suggest that you take a look at Foundry.

The Foundry sculpts look very, very nice.

I do also like the English TAG stuff…maybe I'll do a couple of both, some Foundry more "modern" archers and some TAG "Throwback" provincial archers.

I can't comment on the distinctions between early and late 16th century fashions but I do like TAG miniatures (their website pictures do the figures no justice). I bought a set of Tudor Yeomen recently and the quality of the sculpting/proportions is superb.