28mm Empress Miniatures ECW Ironsides.

Challenge entries.
Well, here I have a mixed bag for you.


First up are the,

28mm Empress ECW Heavy cavalry (12 mounted figures).
Mmmmmm, what can I say about these.
I'll start at the beginning. Beautifull, exquisite, finely crafted miniatures.
Very realistic, accurately proportioned, they look fantastic,
BUT!!
Assembly is a git, although these were part assembled when I recieved them.
They fell apart during painting on a number of occasions.
The swords are very thin, although this is accurate, they break really easy, really easy.
The hoses are ok but if you remove the run throughs on the hoofs, the entire horse bends with the weight of the rider, I left some on after removing some and having this problem.
Much of the detail is so fine, be carefull not to obliterate if when priming.
The figures are very unforgiving when painting.
The Face Guards are a Complete Git to fix after painting.
A great idea ruined by the execution, Bigger scales yes, 28mm, nope not needed.
Some areas are hard to reach when assembled, yet you must assembe to paint.
All in all, I did not like painting these, they took twice the time and effort to paint.
Overall, I think they turned out ok, I am just so happy my customer likes them.