Painted Llaneros for Battle of Carabobo

A good friend of Orinoco Miniatures from Caracas (Carlos Godoy) sent some photographs of his lovely terrain, with newly painted Llaneros from our range. This will be part of a diaroma representing the Battle of Carobobo (1821).

Most of the infantry are also from Orinoco Miniatures.

Llaneros and other packs now available

I am happy to announce that we now have all our new packs in stock and available for sale on our web store. I managed to give all the new figures a quick ink wash, to bring out the detail of these sculpts. We have even managed to get General Jose Antonio Paez into our command pack above, on the right (ordering his Llaneros to turn around and attack the Spanish cavalry that was pursuing them  at the battle of Las Queseras del Medio, in 1819 ). 

There are five separate packs of Llaneros light cavalry in total, one command, two charging and two with upright lances.

We have also release peasant infantry below.

Also artillery crews for both sides.

And Gran Colombian infantry on campaign (with Fatigue caps/"Bonnets de police", sandals and ragged trousers).

Next in line for sculpting will be more Spanish infantry, and mounted command/personalities for both side.

New sculpts and figure packs on the way

After an extremely busy 6 months in my real job,  I'm glad to report that we have many new packs of figures sculpted up and ready for casting. First above you can see the peasant militia command.

 Infantry command in fatigue caps/bonnet de police.

 Spanish artillerymen.

 Gran Colombian Artillerymen.

 Llanero command.

 4 different packs of Llanero cavalry.

Both Spanish and Gran Colombian artillerymen with our newly printed 4pdr cannon (Gribeauval system).

If all goes well, our casting service should be churning these out in the next month.
After this we will be asking for customers opinions about what our next units should be, so please leave your comments below.

New film about Simon Bolivar and the Wars of Independence - 'Libertador'

I just thought I would pass on the news about the new film about Simon Bolivar. This was premiered at the Toronto Film festival recently, and presumably will go out for general release in the near future.

The main actor is Edgar Ramirez as Simon Bolivar. His last big role was the main lead in the TV film about Carlos the Jackal: "Carlos", and he was really excellent in that.

Follow the clip below for a sneak preview, and a great shot of the Llanero cavalry of General Paez:

 First clip of Simon Bolivar film "Libertador"


Hopefully this should provide some inspiration for anyone building their Liberators armies, and promote greater interest in the period.

Orinoco Miniatures produces a range of 28mm figures for the South American Wars of Independence.

The figures can be purchased directly from our webstore here:  

http://www.orinoco-miniatures.com/