Sample of my 15mm Spanish Guerrillas

15mm Essex Guerrilla

As I said in an earlier post, I discovered that I had bought  a number of Spanish guerrillas from a range of manufacturers including Falcon, Minifigs and Essex some time ago but never got them painted up.  So, over the summer, I made a concerted effort to get them painted.

I have kept on thinking about photographing my attempts and putting the results on here: possibly in the hope that it would inspire me to do some more painting. At last, with the help of my wife's photography, I have photographed a sample range of finished figures.

I have tried to present them in the style of Deep Fried Happy Mice, which I have always found to be a useful site when considering what figures to buy. Unfortunately my attempts at providing a scale against which to measure my figures didn't quite work. Nevertheless, I hope that these pictures might still be useful for anyone considering a similar force.



L to R - The first two are from Minifigs, the last three are from Essex

  

L to R - Falcon, Essex, Minifig, Irregular, Minifig

The Falcon figures are quite chunky and, in bare metal, seem to lack the detail of either Minifigs or Essex. However, they painted up very well and, in the end, I was very pleased with them. One criticism I have is that on one or two figures the moulds obviously got misaligned and the two sides of the figure doesn't match up. However, this is only on a couple of figures.

Essex are as chunky as the Falcon figures and the two manufacturers go well together. The detail on the Essex figures is raised up making it easy to pick out. If I have one complaint about Essex it is that the bases seem very narrow and I worry about whether, once based up, they will survive the rigours of the wargames table.

The Irregular figure was one I bought over the summer as part of one of their Riot packs and was glad that it included a priest as I had been keeping my eye out for a suitable figure. I was quite surprised that it stood a lot taller than any of the other figures as I had got it into my head that Irregular figures were quite a small '15mm'. Nevertheless, it isn't overly tall and doesn't stand out too much when placed side by side with the other figures.

Minifigs are the slimmest of the manufacturers and the detail on the figures is incised which can mean that detail can be easily painted over and lost. Nevertheless, Minifigs remain my favourite manufacturer and the one I will carry on using for the bulk of my Napoleonics.  Minifigs tend to have a limited number of poses (although a huge range of figures), which is great for regular troops. However, for irregular bands, such as Guerrillas, I would suggest that they need to be mixed with other manufacturers.