New Model Army - Tester

by **Suetonius Paullinus** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:13 pm

Hi, fancied a break from Napoleonics (till the pre- ordered Victrix Old Guard arrives..) and opened up another box of ECW infantry. This time it's going to be New Model Army for me so Oliver has some tough troops to lead into battle once he has made his way from Warlord Games HQ to good old Suffolk..

So here my first one:

I hope for your feedback before I start mass production. What do you think of the colours?

Is there anything I have missed?

Looking forward to your comments

Cheers

S.P.

by **hithero** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:29 am

Love the deep rich colours and the non-black black trousers, panzer gey? All looks great to me.

by **Suetonius Paullinus** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:09 am

Thanks mate! The trousers are Vallejo Black Grey washed with Badab Black and highlighted with Black Grey again.

Cheers

S.P.

by **Suetonius Paullinus** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:23 am

Hi again,

here a pic of a converted Action Man figure I found on Google:

Just the look I wanted for my New Model Army Regiment!! Converted into 28mm:

What do you think??

Cheers

S.P.

by **grant** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:29 pm

Great looking NMA! I had some NMA once, but I sold the rebellious lot to a friend, and declared for the crown.

by **Guest** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:49 am

I think the paint jobs are spot on..they look pretty darned good to me.. The faces are not ugly enough for Cropheads however...

I love that Action man musketeer ,, fabulous......

cheers john stallard

by **Suetonius Paullinus** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:25 pm

Would be nice to find out what Stallardicus has to say...

I did some more in the same scheme and am so far quite pleased with the result.

More pics soon .

Cheers

S.P.

by **Suetonius Paullinus** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:30 pm

More NMA questions: Would dragoons have worn the red coat as well? They have been regarded as mounted infantry after all. And what about artillery? Any uniform at all?

And finally: Can somebody pretty please approve stallardicus' post??

Cheers

S.P.

by **Jim** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:58 pm

Hey Brilliant stuff as always SP.

I do like the one with blue cuffs - but I like the yellow cuffs more. I think you should shoo for that colour scheme.

The red is nice a deep and the rest of the miniature is suitably sombre (they are English after all) and the blue is a nice spot colour to brighten the miniature and draws you in to the rest of the fine detail on the fig.

I am glad you explained the action man figurine - because I thought it was you for a second!

I though you must of got 'plastic' surgery (that's how hard I'm laughing, although that emoticon does look like its sneezing. I think I may have ED (emoticon dyslexia - very common condition nowadays) because I can never seem to work out which icon is for which real world emotion).

Go forth and multiply SP!

You said mass production... what, 60-70 battalions?

Cheers,

Jim

by **Suetonius Paullinus** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:38 pm

Hi all,

60 or more battalions are certainly tempting but I will soon enough be distracted by new projects I am afraid. But I still got several boxes of infantry unopened. So plenty of figures to convert and paint for my NMA project.

This is what I got so far:

Oh, and there are the Old Ironsides and of course Cromwell waiting to be painted.

But I will definitely need some more firelocks for a 'Fairfax regiment'. And Dragoons!!!

Cheers

S.P.

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