Irregular Miniatures, 6mm
KLArmstro
original!).
specifically I am wondering if they are individual soldiers (as H & R) or if
they are several figures cast onto the same base.
TIA
kelly a.
Jacob Kovel
Irregular Miniatures are cast with multiple figures on a single base.
While the standard is a line of figures one deep, they are not all the
same and are not evenly spaced on the base. Additionally, there are
some variations in stands for the same figure number, but not in every
case. As for size, they are to scale (6mm) but that is too small for
me. Also, people either like them or hate them. There is very little
middle ground.
Jacob Kovel
Silver Eagle Wargame Supplies
Major US stockist of Irregular Miniatures
eagl...@aol.com
Brian Hodson
Infantry are based in a single row of six, horse in a single row of five
figures. The frontage of these strips varies according to troop type, with
pikes and heavy horse on a 20mm frontage, other foot and horse on 30mm. I
have noticed (if you look closely enough) that there is variation not only
in the poses on a single strip, but also between strips. For example there
appear to be at least two variations in the armored musketeers, so that when
you line them up in rows you avoid the "robot effect" of all poses repeated
cookie cutter style down through the ranks.
Can't speak for other lines, but I'm very happy with my small, but growing
(you'll be getting a Christmas order from my wife, Jacob) TYW army.
Brian Hodson
KLArmstro <klar...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Adrian Delves
>Can someone describe the Irregular 6mm Infantry (other than "tiny", be more
original!).
>
>Specifically I am wondering if they are individual soldiers (as H & R) >or if
they are several figures cast onto the same base.
Irregular Miniatures 6mm figures are all cast several figures to one base.
Infantry are usually in 6's, cavalry in 4's. Frontages vary according to
'order'.
Detail is adequate, though not on a par with Adler. There's as much detail as
I care to paint though. There are pictures of figures from Irregular's 18th
Century range at:
http://members.aol.com/whitemetal/18thcim.htm
and from the British Napoleonic range at:
http://members.aol.com/whitemetal/napim.htm
Hope that helps,
Adrian Delves.
http://members.aol.com/whitemetal/
ECY
Go to the competition's site,
and go to the Napoleonic section. Here, Peter has a sample of Baccus, H&R,
Irregular, and Adler together.
>individual soldiers (as H & R)
Hmmm. My H&R are cast together. I'm not quite sure I follow you.
Finally, Irregular produces figures with different spacing, depending on era
and troop type.
Hope this helps.
Ed Youngstrom
e...@aol.com
The Fighting Sail Chronology
http://members.aol.com/ecy/index.htm
DLCRCF
>they are several figures cast onto the same base.
Kelly,
I have some of the FPW figures. There are 5 figures on a base for infantry.
A base is about an inch long. they are not compatable IMHO with H&R. The
figures do have character and I do like them. I will however build a
Maximillian 1863 army as I already have FPW in 15mm
Dan
Martin Rapier
<19991129100733...@ng-cg1.aol.com>...
> Can someone describe the Irregular 6mm Infantry (other than "tiny", be
more
> original!).
>
if
> they are several figures cast onto the same base.
I've just got a boxfile full of WW1 figs I'm painting - infantry are three
to a base with varying spacing and some nice little diorama effects (like
shell holes, casualties, tree stumps etc), cavalry are two to a base, MGs &
mortars are cast on bases with crews, artillery pieces have a crew base but
a separate gun, heavy artillery has the crew base in two parts and is
covered in gunners, shell cases, bits of wood, revetments etc. They also do
some nice stuff like shell holes (with the odd sad casualty clinging onto
the side), train sets (!) etc. Some vehicles (like horse drawn wagons) are
based, and some (like trucks & armoured cars) are free standing and will
need basing up - even these have nice touches like figures sitting on the
roof etc. All in all I'm very impressed compared to Heroics. Sticking the
FE2b plane together was almost as fiddly as my Navwar CR42s though.
I'm used to basing figures & flocking them, so it is a bit wierd getting
used to painting the bases too, so far the figures & bases are
indistinguishable, so I need to work on my base painting techniques a bit I
think, or they are just going to be a serried array of brownish blobs on
the table - although for WW1 perhaps that is realistic.
Cheers
Martin.
Cotton Family
I have 6mm Irregular Ancients and am about to purchase some ACW armies
from them. The figures are grouped not singles (ala H&R) and therefore
require some licence when painting but paint up very well. Detail varies,
some is excellent, some is woeful you really need to look at the figures to
tell (I have Achaemenid Persians whose cavalry is pretty ordinary but whose
infantry is quite good!).
They are size compatible with H&R but are quite different looking
figures overall. I have Early Romans mixed Irreg and H&R that look OK.
Cheers,
TC.
Marco Boniardi
KLArmstro wrote:
>Can someone describe the Irregular 6mm Infantry (other than "tiny", be more
>original!).
>
>specifically I am wondering if they are individual soldiers (as H & R) or
if
>they are several figures cast onto the same base.
IMHO they are very different.
H&R are individual soldier cast in stripes of five, easily to cut each
other.
Irregular are several figures (generally 5 or 6) on one solid base.
Irregular and H&R are, more or less, same high but I prefer much more H&R.
CIAO from Italy
Marco Boniardi
Craig Simms
KLArmstro wrote:
> Can someone describe the Irregular 6mm Infantry (other than "tiny", be more
> original!).
>
> specifically I am wondering if they are individual soldiers (as H & R) or if
> they are several figures cast onto the same base.
>
> TIA
>
> kelly a.
Without wishing to repeat what several others have already said about them I
have several of Irregulars figures in both 6 and 15mm. They are not 'crisp' like
some ranges but I think they win as a figure range in the variation in the
figures you have. My 15mm Polybian Roman and about 90% of my Cartho armies are
Irregular and I have various 'half' armies in 6mm including Franco/Prussian war,
WW1 and WW2.
Irregular tend to put out a lot of different periods in their range and I used
to enjoy jsut reading though the catalogue just to see what they actually had.
Some of their figures arn't 'quite right' however. Their 6mm WW2 french for
example annoyed me slightly by not having the commander sitting out on the hatch
seat on th side of the turret as shown in all of the photo's but sticking out of
the hatch instead.
The fact I also own a Tusk 'army' from Irregular, two copies of the core rules
and both the supplements I might just not mention in case it reduces my
creditiblity.
MudCrab
Martin Rapier
<38466D1C...@senet.com.au>...
{snip}
> Some of their figures arn't 'quite right' however. Their 6mm WW2 french
for
> example annoyed me slightly by not having the commander sitting out on
the hatch
> seat on th side of the turret as shown in all of the photo's but sticking
out of
> the hatch instead.
I suppose at least they bothered to put some commanders in, unlike many
other manufacturers. I've been trying to think of some way of including
their 6mm Dancing Elephants in my WW1 East African/Mesopotamian armies -
already got a load of the excellent 'native bearers'.
Seem to have solved my base painting problems with a bit of experimentation
and a couple of pots of artists acrylics - good dollop of burnt sienna,
light drybrush with tan, and then pick out grass in light yellow, and then
stuff like shell cases & casualties modelled on the bases in appropriate
colours. The figures stand out much better against the darker bases with a
few light highlights. While some of the figures are a bit 'blobby' the
detail in some cases is astonishing, I can make out the puttees on some of
the figures & they've drybrushed up very nicely.
Cheers
Martin.
Peter Kershaw
>
> KLArmstro wrote:
>
> > Can someone describe the Irregular 6mm Infantry (other than "tiny", be
more
> > original!).
> >
> > specifically I am wondering if they are individual soldiers (as H & R)
or if
> > they are several figures cast onto the same base.
>
Different ranges are based in different ways but infantry are usually in 3s,
5s or 6s and cavalry in 2s or 5s. The bases are quite solid and can be cut
but get a saw with a decent handle! There is a fair degree of variety in
appearance.
They do a very wide range but I would choose Adler or Baccus as first choice
if they cover the period and nation you want, followed by Irregular and then
H&R.
Piotr