Ultima Ratio Musketeers

[MABO]

Hello folks around the world, I have just found the announcement of these great new sets:

UR009 - Medieval Gunpowder Castle Artillery
UR010 - Italian Militiamen 1260-1392
UR011 - Musketeers of the King of France
UR012 - Guards of Cardinal Richelieu

Finally there are some great musketeers and fabulous ladys. I am sollecting money!





















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[Fire at Will]

Yes, the musketeers look great

[Susofrick]

Can only agree, the musketeers (even though they are more than three) and guards look very good!

[Michel]

Tjhe figures looks great, Jan...!

[carlosfaro]

They look much better than the equivalent from Mars and for sure they do not break as BUM stuff..Nice addition with Richelieu himself ,Milady and other Damsels...

[Kekso]

Really nice figures. Not my period but I wouldn't mind to have them in my collection.

[Beano Boy]

The Musketeers & the C Guards, look real nice.
32 in a box reaches my target area for value that`s for sure. BB

[Konrad]

This new figs looking great!
Years ago i painted this musketeers from GerMan.

[carlosfaro]

Those GerMan figures look good!
Indeed they were a beautiful set, sad that the swords broke so easily

[Konrad]

Indeed they were a beautiful set, sad that the swords broke so easily

I know the problem.
Had replaced the sword with pins.

[steve_pickstock]

Quite excited by the release of these figures - awwww who am I kidding? Girlie SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[bilsonius]

The ladies and even the King can be used generically, but what is one supposed to do with all the surplus but unmistakeable Richelieus (Richelieux??).
New sequel - "Attack of the Cardinal Clones"?

[carlosfaro]

For me any extra repeated figure is always a gift.. it makes new conversion options while keeping at least one original safe!
The cardenal clones can be converted int different officer figures just by an easy headswop.. And a changed cardinal head can be placed on a monk or priest body (poenty of them from other sets) or even on another mounted xvii c officer...

[Santi Pérez]

Wonderful GerMan figures and wonderful paint job on them.

Well done, Konrad.

Santi.

[Mai Strac]

Looks goods for me and christmas are coming.

[santifernandez]

I imagine a spectacular scene with the musketeers and my lady ..... in a beautiful Versailles garden.
Santi.

[StellarX]

My Musketeers set arrived yesterday, and a lovely set it is, too. My set was made in the brick red colour that Richelieu's Guards are shown as, above. The mould appears to be improved on prior Ultima Ratio sets - there was zero flash, which is a real bonus. My only comment is the number of poses. What we get is very good - sculpting and scale are perfect so no complaints there - but the set feels more like a 'command sprue' repeated four times rather than a core troops set. The sculpts capture the essence of the main characters from the 1970s films perfectly - but do I really need 4 D'Artagnans, 4 Athos', 4 Aramis', 4 Porthos', 4 Dukes of Buckingham, 4 Queens of France and 4 Constances?

I suspect the same will apply to the Richelieu set - but at least multiple generic guards will be useful. One suspects multiple customisations are in the offing.

Overall - what we get is superb quality - just wish we had more variation in the set, which would have made it amazing.

[Ochoin]

Overall - what we get is superb quality - just wish we had more variation in the set, which would have made it amazing.

Minor conversions eg head changes & some arm changes, are possible but the darned cloak makes major mods rather difficult.

donald

[StellarX]

Second set (Guards of Cardinal Richelieu) has landed. Same brick-red plastic as the musketeers. Same great standard of sculpting and a perfect match for the Musketeers set. Slightly more useful generic 'guards' duplicates - but still surplus duplicates of Richelieu & Milady. Still - I'm not complaining - these are fabulous figures. Not quite as 100% flash-free as the Musketeers - but very little cleaning up to do. Recommended.