{"id":1897,"date":"2020-03-30T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2020-03-28T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T10:21:10","slug":"forward-to-the-thirteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/forward-to-the-thirteenth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward To The Thirteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen goes time travelling.<\/em><\/p>\n

I decided to update my medievals. Actually, down-date might be a better way to think of it.<\/p>\n

When I started collecting medievals I decided to go with early 14th century. If I\u2019m honest, I really wanted to do 13th century (think Baron\u2019s War of Simon de Montfort), because that\u2019s where my interests lay. But there were few miniatures available for that and the ones there were I didn\u2019t really like.<\/p>\n

So I chose early 14th century (think Crecy and Poitiers). However, I recently made the choice to go with my heart rather than mind.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve taken out the later figures that wouldn\u2019t look right in the 13th century and they\u2019ve gone into the \u2018fantasy human army\u2019 box. And I replaced them with figures more suited to the 13th century.<\/p>\n

I asked around the club if anyone had some of the Fireforge plastics to have a look at. Andy did. And he kindly let me have a sprue to have a play with. I thought the details were good and the style of armour, clothing and equipment is right for the period.<\/p>\n

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Problem is, every time I see how people have put them together (and this is a general fault I find with plastics) they always have that crouching need-a-sh*t pose, head at 90\u00b0 to body, and arms doing a double fist-pump. They just look like child\u2019s toys.<\/p>\n

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Since they were plastic I decided I\u2019d give them a bit of a chop. I thought I may cut the legs off and re-pose them. In the end I didn\u2019t. In fact, in the end the surgery was quite minor. Generally, I replaced the weapons with better-proportioned spares from the spares box. One or two arms I cut at elbow and wrist. I also cut some hands off at the wrist to have them at different angles (due to the casting process I find that the arms on plastics tend to be \u2018flat\u2019, and it looks more pronounced once the arm is stuck to the body).<\/p>\n

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I think the key to the Fireforge figures (and, again, plastics in general) is to think about the pose rather than just stick them together. Maybe even stand in front of a mirror and pose yourself to see how they should go together (make sure you don\u2019t get seen by the family or they\u2019ll think you\u2019re and even bigger bell end). It means you will have to do a bit of cutting here and there to make the pose fluid and as if that the limbs and head belong on the body. But plastic is easy to cut and easy to glue, so it\u2019s really not that difficult.<\/p>\n

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In the end, I was rather happy with what I came up with. It made me re-think my opinion on them. Just minor surgery, and thinking about the pose, makes a great deal of difference.<\/p>\n

Now I have what I wanted in the first place \u2013 13th century medieval.<\/p>\n

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Stephen goes time travelling. I decided to update my medievals. Actually, down-date might be a better way to think of it. When I started collecting medievals I decided to go with early 14th century. If I\u2019m honest, I really wanted to do 13th century (think Baron\u2019s War of Simon de Montfort), because that\u2019s where my … Continue reading “Forward To The Thirteenth Century”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medieval","category-modelling-and-painting-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1.jpg?fit=792%2C561&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-uB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}