Hussar id help please

Can anyone help identify this hussar? The figure is an officer (no carbine) which suggests he must be either French or British - the S Range Napoleonics had no officer figures for other nations.

My identification would be BNC 11s British Hussar Officer. I realise I have no photos posted of this figures but I suspect these guys are also this figure:

I have another very similar figure but looking ahead rather than to the side. I'm only working off the pictures now, rather than locating the figures themselves _ I don't know but I suspect these are two variants of the same figure rather than two differnet figures. v class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">

Undocumented AWI Native American figure

These three figures are all the same - on the outside two figures the left foot has been separated from the base and the leg animated in slightly different ways. The AWI code is clear on their bases but the number is not - I have a suspicion it might be AWI 22s- but this is not isted in any catalogue I have.

ECW Units

Here are a couple of units which have been painted for a couple of weeks, but which I have only just got round to photographing. Firdt up the hoi polloi - peasants with scythes and pitchforks. I'm thinking these could be generic ad hoc rural infantry and could be usable for other periods as well



Next up a large armoured infantry regiment.





I've also posted some pictures of another (non S Range) unit over on the Old Metal Detector. Pikemen and officer are Warrior, I'm sure: the identity of the musketeers is less certain.

ECW Unit - one piece Lobsters

This unit shows the earlier one piece casting cavalry figures to advantage. Some of the flash which requires cleaning off (eg inside the sword arm) show why the move to separate riders might have improved things (and in theory allowed you to have more riders than horses, and re-use horses for whichever units you have on the table). In some circumstances separate riders are a little easier to paint. I don't have a particularly large number of S Range ECW figures. I am painting some of them up now (or refurbishing them) and I must say I like them more and more. They have a very pleasing look to them, are simple and paint up well. I acquired these figures in silver armour. I tried them with a more authentic blackened scheme but didn't like it, so went back to Vallejo Oily Steel.

ECW Unit - Roundhead Horse

Some of these are imperfect castings - missing some of the saddle cloth at the back, and a couple of other flaws - which suggest they may be home cast copies. The officer with plume is a curiosity - the plume is original to the casting, and I haven't managed to attribute this figure to any ECW or TYW listing.

ECW Unit - Cavalier Horse

A small unit of three ECW1s (i presume, unless they are 7s) with a trumpeter ECWC 6s.

ECW Unit - English Dragoons

ECW pikeman id

Can anyone help with identifying which pikeman pose this is from the ECW range? I have a number of them but none with readable code numbers.

Thirty Years War and Renaissance Ranges - pictures added

I've added some pictures to some of the exitsting posts on these ranges. These have mostly come from Ron, and I must admit I have been sitting on them for a while, waiting to have the chance to review the posts, and to check which figures and pictures I hold for these ranges and also for the English Civil War one. This pictures shows Thirty Years War types painted up as an ECW (fictitious) Trained Band

Conrad Kinch in his comment on my comment on the previous post said he would like to see the IKEA trays I use for storage. No longar available as far as I know, they are in fact drawer inserts for wardrobe systems and came in two sizes - the one shown and the other slightly more than twice as wide. This larger size is too heavy when filled with metal figures so although I have some of these I use them for plastics only.

The dividers split the trays into 12 compartments. These are 12cm square so in my basing convention of 20mm x 20mm for foot, 20mm x 40mm for heavy cavalry and 30mm x 40mm for light cavalry can take 36 foot figures, 18 heavy cavalry or 12 lights per compartment. They are high enough to stack without damage to 20mm and usually 25mm infantry figures (unless with spears or pikes); you need to be more careful with cavalry. At some point I may post a picture from my loft showing them stacked up.

They are also useful for transporting troops. The first photo shows the tray accommodadting the Egyptian Campaign figures - the unpainted figures as well as the painted and based units. The other pictures show two Victory Without Quarter armies ready for a visit to Foy of Prometheus in Aspic, using Revell plastic 30 Years War figures along with a few Hinton Hunt and Les Higgins generals and officers.

The second picture shows the two trays loaded and side by side; the third shows them stacked; and the last two show the two armies, each of which will fit into one tray. Ignore the labels - I have reorganised the contents of these trays several times as (a) I can't get any more and (b) if I could, I would have nowhere to put them. Hinton Hunts are the priority tenants.

I also use A4 carboard boxes in two heights, one similar to box file size and the other 1½ times as high to accommodate those spearmen, pikemen, cavalry etc. I have moved over to Really Useful Boxes each with 4 tray inserts each of 15 compartments to store unpainted figures. I'm not expecting this post to be of general interest to may, but CK did ask...

French Revolution and Egyptian Campaign: Egyptian Campaign armies

I've now finished painting the Egyptian Campaign contingents.

The French include light infantry demi brigades, grenadiers, and dromedaires. The mounted general is an S Range Lasalle while the camel mounted Napoleon and general/aide are from Fine Scale Factory.

The opposition include Egyptian infantry, Bedouins, and Syrian infantry.

S Range Peninsular war armies

I am indebted to Brian for sending me a large number of pictures of his Peninsular War armies made up of S Range figures.

These feature his very handsome scenery, figures including AWI French painted as Spanish Napoleonic line, and some superb flags.

The whole thing has a very pleasing aesthetic. I particularly like the simple neat block painting of the troops, which is the effect I strive for on my Hinton Hunts without achieving this standard.

As it seems to have become incredibly difficult to load multiple pictures into posts in blogger, I have set the pictures up as slideshows, in this and the two following posts.

S Range Peninsular war armies: Spanish

Brian's Spanish units

S Range Peninsular war armies: French

This slideshow shows Brian's French S Range units

Something a bit different

This is a unit of 18 FR 22s, Egyptian Regular from the French Revoltion and Egyptian Campaign range, painted as Nizam-i Cedit infantry