I was doing a bit of sorting and tidying the cupboard under the eaves today, and look what I found!!
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| The little Boers are Mike's Models painted c1982. |
The big guys are 40mm Scruby ACW castings for comparison. I tried to get the firing chap to point his rifle somewhere other than straight at the cameraman but...... Think he's got a grudge?
The rest of the Mike's Models were rehomed years or decades ago but these two must have hidden in ambush all these years.
I never know what I'm going to find in the dark corners.
I had some Mikes Models Brits/Scots back around that same time, which I used for The Sword and the Flame. They are long gone, who knows where.
ReplyDeleteThey were rather unique
DeleteI ordered some sample Mikes Models ECW figures alongside some sample Peter Laing ECW figures c. 1982.
ReplyDeleteI know that people say unkind things about the shapeless spindly lack of detail of Peter Laing "blobs" (I disagree) but Mikes Models seemed the opposite, overdetailed and oddly out of proportion to the point of being cartoon dwarf fantasy adventurers. I still have those sample MM figures but went with the Laing ECW range.
The Peter Laings I have had (all 2 hand) I have had varied from quite nice to not bad to horrible. (But all got painted and used.)
DeleteIf you set aside the average wargamers obsession with 'detail' Peter Laing figures have 'life' in them whereas Mikes Models were built on the lego principle. I did like their colonial boy bugler though - he was a comically beefy lad!
DeleteYou have a point but imo even the old minifig strip 15's were better than both. The aling came the superb little Napoleonettes and a horde of others, getting a little bigger every decade!
DeleteI had some Mike’s models too, Renaissance I think, long gone and almost forgotten.
ReplyDeleteI had some ECW cuirassiers that that painted up well and I was sort of fond of.
DeleteI remember Mikes Models - very chunky chaps !
ReplyDeleteShort and round, bit like me though I'm not as round as I was 30yrs ago.
DeleteIt's better than existential dread . . . .
ReplyDeleteI'll take your word for it :)
DeleteI got out of 15mm, but I always loved the Mike's Model figures. They're the Hogarth prints of military miniatures.
ReplyDeleteThat was a good way of putting it!
DeleteThey had their own charm anyway.
DeleteI DO like those Scruby's Ross. 40s aren't they?
ReplyDeleteGreg
Absolutely. 40mm Scruby Confederate cavalry on Zinnbrigade homecast horses.
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