Thursday 17 June 2021

Ga Pa! Swedish Reinforcements Arrive!

 Hi all - I arrived home from my two days away at "Strategic Planning" for work absolutely shattered - only got to bed at around 2am and up again before 7 - today has been quite a struggle! However, my morale was boosted on arriving home to find not one but two brown boxes sitting on my painting desk - my sixty Ebor Swedish cavalry have arrived - Hoozah!

Included in the pack are a small detachment of gunners - three crews of four, a few pics below. The cavalry figures have to be assembled unfortunately - separate sword arm, head and carbine - so no images of any of them yet as I really am too tired to do anything with them tonight! (the one below is pinched from the Ebor website!)



Swedish cavalry command in tricorns


The two cartons 


The well wrapped and protected contents


The twelve gunners


Crew no One


Crew no Two


Crew no Three


Is it my imagination, or are the gunners of slightly bigger stature??




Swedish cavalry troopers in tricorn, again courtesy of the Ebor site.

One point of note to me is the fact that although the shipping seemed high at £29.45, each of the two packs were around this price - so a VERY good deal for me when you look at it that way!

32 comments:

  1. Always nice to come home to some goodies that you've ordered and the figures look superb. Note to self: never complain about P&P in the UK again!

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    1. Cheers Steve - yes, we are just big kids at heart, aren't we?! Our postage can be very high and unfortunately only likely to increase with the current state of international freighting.....sigh

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  2. Now, finding these lovely packages on my doorstep would certainly improve my morale too!

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    1. Thanks Jon, it certainly helped after a very long day!

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    1. Thanks Michal, the Ebor range are very nice, aren't they?

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  4. Those cavalry look absolutely lovely, great detail and bang on proportions.

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    1. They certainly are nice looking figures, Norm. They are sculpted by Paul Hicks I believe.

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  5. Hurrah for new toys…

    That should keep you out of trouble for a while…

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Cheers Aly, yes, a good solid period of painting is ahead of me...

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  7. Great looking sculpts, Keith! BTW, the postage seems commensurate with the weight - lots of metal!

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    1. Thanks Dean...yes, I know, it's just a bit of a killer, but no way around it when you live on the other side of the world....

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  8. Nothing better then a biggie of new figures arriving at your door step!

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  9. That didn't seem to take long to arrive Keith. It will be fun watching these get completed.

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    1. I agree Lawrence...only seemed like about three weeks or so. Might be a week or so till I get started on the cavalry.

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  10. Getting a shipment of new stuff is always fun, seeing them after a long day is priceless. After all, work is the curse of the war gaming class.

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  11. 30 quid for postage! Breaks my heart! Nice castes though.

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    1. LOL it's the guy at Ebor you should be crying for Ray...he paid the best part of SIXTY quid in postage!

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  12. Indeed a morale boost!
    Come to think of it, my morale is quite low at the moment, maybe I should engage in some shopping…😀

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    1. Yes, you should. Shoot up a flare and help will be on the way.

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    2. There is nothing like a bit of retail therapy Stew...ask your wife, I am sure she will agree, as long as she doesn't know what the target of your spending is!

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  13. Nice stuff! Have a lot of fun painting them.

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    1. Thank you Dmitry! Painting cavalry is not my favourite occupation but they will look impressive when completed!

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  14. As others have already said, always a nice boost to be greeted by a package of toy soldiers after a long day (or series of days) at work. I hadn't looked into Ebor: nice looking figs, too!

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    1. Cheers Ed, yes, it was a very welcome sight after a long hard working week! Ebor are very nice figures and also very reasonably priced eg £6.60 for six figures compared with £8.50 for five figures from Warfare Miniatures...which also look to be very nice, they are just much more expensive!

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  15. Ah the joys of assembling metal kits!

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    1. I KNOW Mark! Hope you have had a good break down south, despite the weather...or perhaps it was OK in Wanaka?

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  16. Always nice to get a delivery, I bought myself a birthday present as no one else was willing to buy me figures and to"save money " I made sure I bought enough Perry figures that the shipping was free! I like the look of the artillery crew,I know you're not that keen on cavalry, I feel a bit like that about artillery, they always take longer to paint than I allow for!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain, and happy birthday! I know what you mean about artillery...it's the actual guns themselves I don't really like painting. Luckily due to my innate meanness, I dud the buy any guns for the Swedes, as I already have several in my WSS armies and will just use them, with Swedish crew....so it will really be just like painting infantry, except for the uniform!

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