ECW units - horse

I recently accquired two large lots of S range figures at a very good price, which included a large number of ECW figures, along with others. The first lot mainly contained pikemen and artillerymen while the second lot from the same seller provided a large number of cavalry.

In a number of posts which follow are pictures of those figures I have refurbished so far. They comprise a good proportion of the figures in theS range  ECW list.

This post kicks off with two units of Royalist Horse, including figures ECWC 1s Cavalier, ECWC 6s Royalist Horse Trumpeter, and ECWS 1s English Civil War General. There are a couple of figures whose swords have been converted to pistols.

Then some pictures of individual figures

ECWC 2s Roundhead

ECWC 6s Royalist Horse Trumpeter

ECWC 9s Mounted Drummer

ECWS 1s English Civil War General

The Parliamentarian horse units are currently under refurbishment and I will add some pictures when they are completed.

ECW units - cuirassiers

Here are two Cuirassier units. The first are early one piece castings while the second unit uses figures which I think have come from the Thirty Years War range.

Split identity - ECW dragoons

I have two different types of S range mounted dragoons, and two are listed - ECWC 4s Scottish Dragoon  and ECWC 5s English Dragoon. Throuble is - I don't know which is which. I regret the quality of the picture is not great either.

There is also a Scots cavalryman which does not appear on any S range list I have seen. It may be a jacobite Rebellion figure.

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.

ECWC 1s Cavalier

I also have just acquired this figure which may be an earlier one piece casting figure for this code

ECWC 2s Roundhead

ECWC 3s Cuirassier

The figure in the photograph is a one piece casting,

ECWC 4s Scottish Dragoon

This  figure is not definitely identifiied and could either be ECWC 4s Scottish Dragoon or ECWC 5s English Dragoon.

ECWC 5s English Dragoon

This  figure is not definitely identifiied and could either be ECWC 4s Scottish Dragoon or ECWC 5s English Dragoon.

ECWC 6s Royalist Horse Trumpeter

ECWC 7s Cavalier

No picture of this figure is available at present

ECWC 8s Royalist Cuirassier

No picture of this figure is available at present

ECWC 9s Mounted Drummer