When u end up with a museum exhibit "standard".

Great video, many thanks!!

Great work as always Stuart, you make quick work of an infantry stand in this scale. Awesome!

No new projects, no new projects, no new projects… oh shoot.

Fantastic as per usual Stuart

Thanks for thos Stuart, I'm not investing in the ECW but always enjoy watching you paint and I always take something from your videos that I can use in my work.

Thanks! Another great tutorial

Nice work. I am going in with these and haven't painted in over 30 years so could be fun!!! I love this period.

Lovely work Stuart, you've done a grand job on them.

Fantastic job mate. Great tutorial. These look brilliant. !!!!!!

I have just started doing this game system. I did this game back in the day in 28mm. I sold those and got out of gaming for a while. I am now going back into gaming and I liked the look of this scale. I find that you tutorial is very good. Thank you for the help in doing this scale. I love what you shared. Thank you very much.

Nice work as alawys mate, they came out really nicely!! Your work with the contrast paints is just outstanding.

Excellent tutorial certainly inspired me to add these to my list 🥳

Magic! Love the look of these 😃👍

Nicely done Stuart!

Great tutorial Stuart, they look amazing as always!👍🍻

Great video, very much looking forward to them arriving.

Look fantastic Stu. Can’t wait to get mine and rushing to get current projects finished or at least parked at a good stage before these hit in April. Great job as always 👍

Really nice tutorial and the unit looks excellent.

Good stuff, now to await mine!

Lovely painting.

Excellent work mate, brilliant tutorial, uniforms can be a pain for sure but you have hit the nail on the head with these. Looking forward to seeing more 👍

They look stunning, Stuart! Brilliant job 👍. Thanks for the shout out too 😀. Always happy to bang on about this period. I’m thinking I may leave out the pikemen at porte on my blocks. Partly because they seem to take longer to paint, and also it is the least comfortable way to hold a pike, and so it makes my arms feel tired seeing them at the front of each unit 😆.

Perfekt!

Superb . I have been painting smaller scales for some time now as the detail now matches that of the larger 28mm models. The best tip I can give when painting a coloured regiment eg a red regiment is to obtain a few different reds from the various contrast/speed paint ranges and use them on the same unit. That will avoid the uniform samey look ,for which you want to avoid for the ECW .Great stuff and looking forward to your future videos for this era.

Another nice video and you’re not far off 5k subscribers, so you’re clearly doing things right. I think I’ll be going for an even simpler buff scheme throughout with some trouser variation as you suggest. I want a force that can be used for either Royalist or Parliament so I’m going to let the swap-out flags do the heavy colour lifting. Mine will be a generic ECW force to keep the painting simple as I don’t want to get bogged down in Napoleonics and ECW at the same time. Fortunately my ACW Union is done and on the table and that’s where I want to be with ECW whilst I button count my way through the Waterloo Anglo/Dutch.

Nice one mate

Welcome to the world of the ECW uniform lottery. I’ve been researching uniforms for my current 28mm ECW project, we’re focusing on the battle of Cheriton as we have found a bit more info on the regiments present. As you said there is a freedom to painting the units as to shade and coat colour, and then there’s the flags………….Nice work on these.

Excellent mate. I am just starting painting a sprue myself and using similar process although mine will be for 30 years war and even less uniform

Thank you. I am fully in on epic so far and am getting overwhelmed by numbers and since Epic is now looking like it is going to be ‘a thing’ with more periods to be covered and so have decided to a explore painting in a much more representative / impressionist style .. if I can! It strikes me that the lighter base coat and contrast type paint does seem like it should be a major component of such a style.

Very good video. I'm still struggling with this epics, putting too much time in too many layers of colour. 😵‍💫 Will try this out. 🤞

Have you ever done the various historical regiment tutorials, Stu?

Fantastic video, this makes me all the more eager for April. This set is going to be huge. I can see myself buying 3 at least, 1 for civil war, 1 for the 30 and another for the LOTR custom

Quick off the mark with this one mate.. Nice work. Please do tell me where do the painting stands come from. And do they work well for us left handers?

So, following this guide has kind of taught me that, uh, it is not for anyone that gets any kind of hand pain. The neatness required to use contrasts legit really hurts your hand XD, I'm like two coats in a full sprue of these and my hand just about fell off XD

Brilliant video as always! Amazing work. I was wondering if would you ever consider doing battle reports?

Surely there is an accuracy problem because ECW Pikemen usually wore thick buff leather and gloves for base protection - long sleeved 3/4 length Buff leather jackets capable of turning a sword cut and gloves to protect the fingers in close combat. In addition, wherever possible, pikemen wore breastplates with tassets for thigh and crutch protection and proofed against pistol and musket balls. In battle the pikemen with buffcoats and breastplates with tassets formed the front ranks followed by pikemen wearing buffcoats and breastplates without tassets with those with just buffcoats forming the rear ranks. As such, the pikemen in a pikeblock would be weaing buff coloured Buff Leather coats with the front ranks also weaing fire blackened armour - Fire blackened as Fire Blackened armour does not rust as protected by a high temperature black oxide layer formed when placed in the fire. It would be highly unlikely to see a pikeman wearing just a uniform jacket OR armour over a uniform jacket!! Very little armour is found by modern battlefield archeaologists because all the usable armour found on battlefield casualties was recycled by the victorious army to replace or repair damaged armour and distribute additional breastplates and tassets to pikemen with just buffcoats and any overlooked looted by scavengers as for sale or as scrap metal. Pikemen weaing 3/4 length buffcoats and proofed breastplates and tassets where virtually invulnerable to cavalry whose only weapon against them were there pistols needing to get a lower leg or facial shot to injure a pikeman as even the thick buff coat gave excellent protection against pistol balls and sword cuts. In effect the overall amour protection of an armies pikemen would deteriorate with each drawn battle or defeat and improve with each victory. Any damaged armour would be sent for repair and any amour incapable of repair recycled to army blacksmiths and armorers as scrap metal. The Buff leather coats worn by ECW Pikemen and Cavalry under their breastplates were not only very effective battlefield protection BUT excellent protection from the weather on campaign to keep men alive and healthy. So much so that in 1916 the British army re-introduced a buff leather jerkin to protect British and Commonwealth soldiers from the code and the rain in the trenches!!!!!!! The were called Buff leather as they were 'Buff' coloured - A light to medium brown leather colour when new.

I was surprised to hear that the nature and colour of uniforms were harder to establish for the ECW, does Osprey not have information on this? I also get the war began in 1642, well before Cromwell's New Model Army, which was formed to allow them to fight anywhere in the country and at least by this time the Round Heads were issued with uniforms, this being the origin of the "Red Coat" for the infantry. Just wondering.

Excellent video as always Stuart for yet another project you are not going to start 🤣 Figures look great and paint up really well. While still trying to avoid this release (for now at least) I actually think they may paint up a but easier than the Naps overall. Yes there's quite a few colour changes but the detail that needs to be painted is less fiddly IMO and less of it. One thing I like about this release is that it seems from the Warlord site and box art that the default infantry frontage will be 18cm, not 24cm, better for 6 x 4 tables. 18 cm would I think be the smallest though as, unlike ACW / Naps, these would be an absolute pig to split into half size bases, nigh on impossible, so those wanting smaller base sizes will find it a struggle with these. In all honesty, I think I would probably skip the ported pike on the front ranks, too much hassle when gaming IMO as is pretty evident from the 28mm P&S videos I've seen where they all use very deep bases to cater for the ported. Yes you'd need to buy an extra infantry box to get the uprights but I'm sure, as with the Naps and ACW, there will be 3d prints of pikes out there before long. The other bonus of skipping the ported pikes is that you can have the command stand in the front rank of the front stand, swapping them for the rear stand when closing to engage. The main negative for me (other than the muskets being too close together) is that the units will be more representational than historically proportionate as the muskets should be as deep as the pike and at a ratio of 2:1. Again you could do it with extra muskets if your'e bothered but it's more figures to paint. That said, if you buy the extra infantry box for the upright pikes you'll have spare muskets too :) The other option would be to skip the second stand of pikes altogether if not using the ported pikes, this would solve the ratio issue and would avoid you needing to buy extra upright pikes but would leave you with 14 stands of unused pikes and doubtless a need to adjust the rules or have some way of denoting Standard, Small and Large units (if they exist in P&S).

Thanks for an excellent tutorial Stuart. Just what I have been waiting for. I noticed that you didn’t use a general wash on the figures after blocking in the colours. Is this because you had used the Zenithal pre shading technique? Very much looking forward to seeing your next video on these.

Look terrific! Using black and then the highlight technique is something I will have a go at. Could you tell me what brush size you use? I have several very small size brushes, but they can be hard to use. Being 60 (tomorrow), eyesight is an issue also!

I'm going to follow you for my 28mm ECW armies.

a new era of history for us spears are pikes , sashes are scarves break out the 17th century dictionary lol

Quick question: what size and type of brushes do you use?

Hey, that sort of codex of all the regiments played at the start where did you get that from man? I just need help finding out what exact regiment to paint my army in.

Thankfully with my eyes and hands, the two sides are different colour, as i have no chance of painting these

Still trying to figure out a way to do epic scale painting, I’m far too clumsy and shaky. So far is the muskets that are killing me, trousers and coats and even equipment I’m doing ok on, it’s the stupid firearms. Thank goodness you can play the colored plastic, otherwise it would stay something cool, but not for me.

think most pikeman wore leather gloves ??

Hmmm🤔,so the collar matches the cuffs,🤣🤣🤣🤣