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Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen!
It's time to show off the latest greens on TAG's Workbench.
Sometimes, when we make new miniatures, we are making them to a grand scheme, pushing forward with our plans for the what will be, when completed, the biggest and best 28mm Renaissance range of miniatures on the planet; other times, we make things that we have been pressed into making by our loyal (and vocal) customers.
This week, the miniatures I have come from that second category.
The first pack of new miniatures on show are Thirty Years War mounted Colonels. Most units in the period 1600-1650 were the personal possession of the men that raised them - these Colonels would be in charge of the recruitment, dress, equipment and training, as well as for their battlefield command. These miniatures are intended to represent these officers, although they are equally suitable as sub-general or other 'unnamed' generals.
They are mounted on our small horses, but with a little work would fit on to our large horses, if players wanted to use them as extra command miniatures in Cuirassier or Reiter companies.
The second group are Pikemen, in more active poses than we have previously made; two packs of minis both in advancing poses, one with full armour including tassets; and the other 'lightened', as was becoming the vogue towards the end of the TYW.
Towards the end of the 17th Century, lightened pikes had become the norm, with infantrymen losing all their armor; but in the mid century, this process seem only to have gotten as far as losing the tassets, and this is how these minis are represented, with back-and-breast plate and helmet.
Pikes are held at 60 degrees, and all are represented in the advancing-at-port pose.
All these excellent 28mm miniatures were sculpted by our in-house sculptor, Mr. Nick Collier.