15mm Renaissance Figure Suppliers
This Madaxeman.com's directory of suppliers of 15mm Renaissance Figures. There is a sister directory for Ancients Figures also on this site
There is also a set of comparison pictures of different 15mm Renaissance manufacturers figures on this other page on this site
There are also listings of sites where you can download flags for free and to buy here too
If you are looking for 15mm ECW, TYW, Polish, Ottoman, Samurai (with guns), Dutch, Restoration British, Swedish, Tatar or French Wars of Religion wargames figures, you've come to the right place. This page has detail of the ranges carried by ALL the 15mm Renaissance suppliers I can find. For each supplier there is a full listing of the armies they have figures for, a guide to how they package their ancient figures (singles, packs of 8 etc), details on how you can order from them, and a link to their site. The information on this site was hopefully correct when I created it, and I do try to keep it updated but please check shipping rates and quantities yourself when ordering. if you see anything that needs changing, please tell me via the email link on this page
You can also rate any of the manufacturers - please do vote on those you have figures for as this helps other gamers decide what to buy.
I have deliberately omitted listings for the "Late Medieval" and lots of the "Generic Eastern Islamic/Horse Nomad" armies as these can be found in the directory for Ancients Figures.
Whilst in practice there are differences, many ECW ranges also often promoted as being able to cover the Thirty Years War - and a number of similar era armies. Whether this is accurate or not is down to you - however I have tried to make a note of whenever a manufacturer lists a specific "TYW" range
These ratings are almost all separate to those in the Ancients Directory, as the quality of a manufacturers Renaissance and Ancients ranges may differ - so make sure to vote here as well as on the Ancients Page. Where a manufacturer only has one set of ranges in both periods, the rating is combined.
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The 15mm Figure Manufacturers Listings
Essex Miniatures
- Essex have a vast range of 15mm figures in all periods and are often seen as the "baseline" for all other manufacturers - whatever army you are looking to buy Essex will have a figure range for it, and the decision you need to make is "can I find any manufacturer of figures I like better than those from Essex?" (or maybe "everyone will have these Essex figures - I want my stuff to look different as it will then give the impression that I have a personality of my own!"). IMO their figures are always to a good standard, take paint nicely but are sometimes accused of lacking a little in "personality" or animation. Very good consistency and compatibility throughout the entire range.
- In their Renaissance ranges they have ECW/TYW (combined), Scots Covenanters, Scots Royalists, Highlanders, Irish, some Croats, Stradiots, Reiters, Spanish, Ottomans, Polish, Landsknechts, Cossacks, Moghuls, Muscovites, Indians, Streltsi, Tatars, Swiss & a generic Italians Wars range, French Wars of Religion (Hugeonot and Catholic), Spanish & English 1559-1605.
- They also have a generic European Nations range for the periods 1660-1695 and 1695-1745, which also includes HIghlanders
- Essex sells figures in packs of 8 foot or 4 mounted, usually with 2-3 variants per pack in the newer ranges.
- The Essex website has a full listing of figures, with a reasonably complete set of pictures of all the figures, usually in bare metal.
- Essex used to be known as Mikes Models way back in (Reniassanace) history, and many 15mm Renaissance armies you will come across may well still feature Mikes Models figures. They are supposedly still available from Essex on Special Order - but were a very differently styled range. They were much shorter and less anatomically correctly styled that the current ranges - but are still much loved by some collectors & gamers.
Testudo Miniatures from Italy
- The highly regarded Testudo range has recently been revived by Italian military painter Guiseppe Rava, and sell figures online from a sole Thirty Years War range, which is also usable for ECW (it has ECW Personalities too).
- There are some pictures on the site of these generally very highly regarded sculpts, which are rather large compared to the "Essex standard".
- The range is also available in the UK from Pete Dalby PD Miniatures in the UK complete with online ordering and photos
- They sell for Euro 4.50 for 10 foot or 5 cavalry from Italy,or £3.90 for 10 foot /£4 for 5 mounted from PD in the UK
- Online ordering is possible via paypal as well
Vexillia
- Vexilia sell Mirliton, Venexia, Acies Edizioni, some stuff from Black Hat and their own range of 15mm Napoleonic Ottomans that work in this period.
- Vexillia's other own-brand range, of Poles is a touch early to feature in this rulebook but the other manufacturers are all avaiable from their site in the UK.
- The website has pictures of nearly all the figures - some painted, some not - and can take online orders using credit cards or Paypal. They are cast in Italy so can occasionally be out of stock.
- Vexillia sell Mirliton in the UK, but they are also available direct from Italy.
- Their ranges sneak up to the edge of the Renaissance, with some Alexander Nevsky Russians that might do for Tatar types, Condottieri that might make it into the Early Italian Wars, and some fairly early Swiss
- The Italian website has pictures of nearly all the figures - some painted, some not - and can take online orders using credit cards or Paypal. T.
- Venexia make a large (i.e. closer to 18mm) range of figures covering Ottoman Turks, Italian Wars and the Wars of Louis XIV
- Vexillia are the distributor for Venexia in the UK, but they are also available direct from Italy.
- The Italian website has pictures of all the figures
- This growing range was started in 2010 producing figures in the larger scale 15 / 18 mm style. They will mix well with Testudo and Donnington TYW ranges
- Vexillia are the distributor for Acies Edizioni in the UK, but they are also available direct from Italy.
- They have just the one small TYW range at the moment
- The Italian website has pictures of all the figures
- Cast by Vexillia in the UK, the militia, light infantry and cavalry will be of use in this earlier period.
- Vexillia supply them direct
- The range is fully pictured (painted) on their website.
Mirliton
Venexia
Acies Edizioni
Vexillia Napoleonic Ottomans
Minifigs
- A venerable range of 15mm figures now owned and produced by Caliver Books in Nottingham. Ranges in the Renaissance include C16 Moorish, Aztecs and Incas, Burgundians, C16 French Italian Wars (with Swiss and Landsknechts), ECW and TYW (with specific Swedish / Imperialist / French / Spanish figures), Poles, Russians, Cossacks, Tatars, Moghuls, Muscovites, ECW, French Wars of Religion, Dutch, and Ottomans. They even have some Pirates. Aaaarrrrhhh!.
- Minifigs have been around since before I was born (-ish) and some of the castings are starting to show their age. The lack of raised, dry-brushable/inkable detail on many of the figures looks very, very dated. A new improved website sees pictures on the increase throughout the site, with none for some ranges
- Supplied in the usual packs of 4 and 8 all cast with spears and shields in place, cast in the UK and also in the US.
- Minifigs also sell the Matchlock Miniatures ranges, which are being gradually brought back into production.
- These are slightly shorter, and far more actively moulded and posed figures than Minifigs own mouldings. They somewhat duplicate the Minifigs ranges, in having ECW, Irish Wars, Italian Wars, Late C17 Restoration British and others, Samurai and a dedicated TYW range covering all the main protagonists.
Donnington
- Donnington have a range of 15mm figures which again cover most armies. They are in a range knows as Warfare in the 17th century - covering ECW, TYW, Poles and Eastern Europeans (Croats), Ottoman Turks, Wars of Louis XIV French, The Age of Turenne and Montecuccli (German, French and Dutch).
- There are several different sets of sculpts in this range - by general agreement the Louis XIV ones are the best, Turenne and Montecuccli and the TYW stuff is OK, but the later C17 European ones are a bit iffy. All are usually a touch larger than Essex, and chunkier too
- Donnington - unusually - sell figures individually.
- They also offer a painting service through sister company Ancient & Modern Army Supplies (who paint armies to order).
- Finally, they do some casualty figures useful to use as markers.
Black Hat Miniatures (previously Gladiator Games)
- Black Hat are a UK-based manufacturer with 15mm Essex-sized figures for the Malburian, Earl Rernaissance (i.e C15/6 Italian, Spanish, Swiss and Maximillian), Samurai, Aztec (and Enemies) and English Civil Wars. The ECW range is around 40 figure codes strong, and the Malburian/WSS set runs to almost 80.
- Different sculptors over the years mean some ranges are quite chunky
- They also sell books, accessories and the (pretty good) Coat d'Arms paint range. Spears are generally cast in-hand. The website has pictures of almost all the figures in the bare metal
- They sell in packs of 10's and 5's and there are often variants in packs
- The site takes Paypal and credit cards
Khurasan Miniatures
- New and expanding US based online only retailer but shipping worldwide
- Have an ever expanding range (check their website for new announcements) including Chichimec, Chinatecs, Irish and Scots ECW, Renaissance-era Swiss, Spanish Imperials, Iroquios Indians, and Thirty Years War .
- Figures sold in a variaty of pack sizes so make sure you check all the pack sizes before ordering!.
- TYW ranges are designed to be big enough to mix with Testudo, and the onles I have seen certainly fit that description!
- Most ranges also come from different sculptors, so compatibility between ranges is not always as good as with some other manufacturers.
- A fairly complete set of pictures of the ranges are shown on the site.
Legio Heroica
- Another Italian manufacturer with two highly regarded ranges for this era - 1683 Polish and Ottomans from the Siege of Vienna - with aroud 20 figure codes in each.
- All packs come with separate shields and open hands for lances, and all have variety in them too
- A good site for pictures, and they sell in packs of 8 foot and 3 mounted for about Euro 3.50 and also do some large unit deals.
- They have a good reputation for speedly delivery across Europe and beyond
Fire & Sword System
- Produced in Poland, and available from Polish gaming site wargamer.pl
- Technically the company is known as "Wargamer", however I suspect calling them "Fire and Sword System" is a touch more distinctive than saying "Wargamer Figures" (!!!)
- Also now available in the UK from North Star Figures under the By Fire and Sword brand
- Renaissance ranges with Muscovites, Swedes, Cossacks and Crimean Tatars as well as XVII Poles and Ottomans, as well as some natty flags, fortifications and buildings.
- Sold direct and via North Star in unit sized packs that work out at about 1 Euro per mounted figure.
Roundway (as sold by Navwar)
- A significant range of Late Medieval-Early Renaissance figures which mix nicely with Essex and similar ranges.
- Countries covered include Burgundian, English, French, German, Hindu Indians, Hungarians, Irish, Italian/Venetian, Mameluk, Mughal Indian, Ottomans, Medieval Persians, Poles, Russians, Scots, (Highlanders and Pike-types), Spanish, and Swiss. A Great Northern War range works for WSS, and includes some nice Muscovites.
- Sold in Packs of 8 foot and 4 mounted, identical poses in each pack. Navwar themselves don't even have email and only take orders by Post or Fax (yoiks!).
Naismith Design (as sold by Navwar)
- Navwar also have a "true 15mm" range of figures under the Naismith banner
- The range has ECW (including Scots), Samurai and Aztecs, Incas and Conquistadores in the Renaissance era. The figures have fine detail and are on the tiny end of the range of "15mm" figures out there. Scale seem to vary significantly within the range - I have some ECW Royalist pikemen who are 15mm from foot to the top of their hats/helmets and match well with the advancing musketeers, but the kneeling musketeers from the same range are practically the same height even when kneeling.
- The website has no pictures and no facility for online ordering
- Again sold in Packs of 6 foot and 3 mounted, identical poses in each pack.
Museum Miniatures
- Museum sell 15mm figures cast in a pewter-like metal. For Renaissance gamers, they have a Renaissance range covering Islamic Persians, Landsknechts, Mamluks and Ottomans, a Reformation range of ECW Royalists, Scots and Parliamentarians, and some Samurai
- Sizing is usually bigger than Essex, veering towards the "18mm" end of the scale which can make some of the figures look a little lanky - but the website has a massive and good set of pics so you can decide for yourself easily enough.
- They sell in packs of 8 foot and 4 mounted, with many of the mounted coming as one piece castings of horse and rider. Swords, spears and shields are cast in hand, and all the ranges are designed and cast in house. There are a few variants in some packs, but where they exist they are not usually wildly different.
- The website has pictures of nearly all of the figures, usually painted,
Old Glory 15's
- A huge range of all the usual suspects - ECW (including Scots), Early & Late C17 French (maybe - its sort of hidden on their website at this link but they might just be re-packaged TYW figures instead), Jacobites, Samurai, Eastern Renaissance (Polish, Cossacks, Ottomans), Italian Wars, a discrete Thirty Years War range with Early & Late Swedes, Danes, French, Croats, Germans and Peninsular Spanish, Later Spanish Imperial, Early Caroline English, Early Restoration Portuguese, Later 80YW Dutch, and also Ming Chinese and Koreans.
- The figures are compatible height wise with Essex, and many take a paint job excellently despite looking a little crude in the bare metal - with quite heavyweight pikes and muskets cast in-hand - than some other manufacturers out there.
- OG used to sell in packs of 50 foot and 16 mounted - with multiple poses per pack, but the numbers seem to have gone down to a more manageble 24 infantry now. 50 was a chunky number, so a good job they are among the cheapest on offer!
- The US site seems to have pictures for most of these ranges. Ordering about 8 packs from the US recently I paid around $20 in postage, which is calculated at the end of the order process - shipping is claimed at 10-14 days from the US to elsewhere. They take Paypal and credit cards
- Now available fromTimecast in the UK.
Lancashire Games
- Several Renaissance ranges, including Eastern Renaissance (Polies, Tatars, Cossacks, Russians, Moors, Ottomans, Wallachians), Samurai, ECW and Scots Covenanters, and some League of Ausberg later Renaissance British, French and Dutch too.
- They come packed in two sizes - packs of 10 foot or 4 mounted or in even better value Battle Packs of 60 foot or 24 mounted - with lots of variants in each pack. At shows they tend to sell only the packs of troops bagged up in much bigger quantities. The figures come cast with spears and shields, usually in a fairly soft metal.
Peter Pig
- Peter Pigs Regimente of Foote rules have spawned a neat ECW & Scots range with just over 40 packs of Horse, Foote and Guns. They also have a separate 50-strong Samurai range
- They come in packs of 8 foot and 4 mounted, all cast in a hard metal with spears in place, with 2-3 variants in most packs. There are pictures of them all on the website
QRF Figures
- The home of the oft-overlooked Feudal Castings & - for Renaissance especially - Friekorps ranges, sold by QRF (who also used to use the LKM brand until 2 years ago). The ranges include ECW & TYW 1618-48 (52 products), ECW (31), Renaissance Turks (26), C16 Japanese (9), Renaissance (Italian and Burgundian Wars - 42), Moghuls (18), and a Tudor Wars range (31)
- Sold in packs of 8 foot and 4 mounted, with variants in most packs and there are many cast with separate spears and/or shields. They also sell bases and flags as well as other accessories.
- Quality varies a lot between ranges, but the website has a full set of pictures so have a look at the images on their website and decide
Irregular Miniatures
- Figures that can vary in quality but usually paint up better than they generally look.
- The Renaissance 15mm ranges cover TYW, ECW, Polish, Cossacks, Scots, Ottomans, Aztecs, Moghul Indians and Persians. They also have a League of Ausberg range which may well creep in at the back end of the period
- They do also do a wide range of animals, which are excellent for populating your baggage camp!
- Figures are sold individually and are cast with weapons in hand. There are some pictures on the website that will give you an indication of most ranges, using painted figures - but not the full range by any means.
Oddmial Ozmy sold by Fighting 15
- UK suppliers of Eureka (see separate entry) and Oddzial Ozmy's Polish-cast 1410 Tannenberg Teutonics & Polish & Lithuanians, which may have some useful figures in it (sold in "unit-sized" sets, with box artwork on the site).
Altuos Figures - sold by 15mm.co.uk
- The Altuos range - sold by 15mm.co.uk - covers 7 chunks of the Renaissance. Lace C15 (6 Burgundian figures), Early C16 (43 Italians Wars and English Border Wars figures), Late C16 (not yet released), Early C17 (not yet released), Artillery & Crew (2 C16 guns plus crew), and Ottomans (18 figures). Some may be figures previously made by Tabletop Games, but they all come in packs of 8 & 4 as usual.
- The site has pictures of almost all of the figures in the ranges,
East Riding Miniatures
- ERM stock their own Eastern Renaissance ranges suitable for use in many East European Renaissance armies
- It includes Boyars, Hungarian Gendarmes, armed Voynuks, Peasants and Vlad the Impaler - pictures of all the unpainted figures on their website.
- They also carry Grumpys Miniatures ranges (and produce them under licence in the UK) for Cossacks, Indonesians and Malayans, Colonial Portuguese, Pirates, Chinese Militia, Persians & Moghuls, Yi Korean, and Tupi - with Landsknechts promised soon. Grumpys are also stocked by Eureka in Australia.
Eureka - Australian Site
Eureka Miniatures Figures
- Eureka's own site (carried in the UK by East Riding - see above).
- Eureka Ranges are also sold in the UK by Fighting 15's.
- Amazonian Indians, and Samurai in this period
- They also stock Grumpys Miniatures, Irregular, and Museum in Australia.
- Well put together site with pictures of unpainted minis for all ranges. They sell individual figures about AU 0.80 foot and AU 1.60 mounted.
Outpost Wargame Services
- Aztecs, Conquistadores, Mayans and Incas
- Sell in 8's & 4's, the website has a fairly comprehensive gallery of pictures
- All figures designed and cast in Scotland.
Viking Forge
- Another US manufacturer with a fairly large range of figures sold individually.
- Ranges for Early C16 (Italians Wars, Swiss, Burgundians, English and Scots, Spanish, Landsknechts), Late C16 ( English, French, Dutch), Early C17 (French, Germans, Swedish, Scots, ECW), all of which are the Asguard/Tabletop Games ranges, plus two Early & Late ECW ranges (which are the Matchlock range Minifigs distribute in the UK).
- Viking Forge have recently revamped their website with photos of nearly all the ranges however they only take $$ cheques or money orders so probably aren't trying too hard to sell to the UK!
Falcon Figures
- Once produced in the UK, it appears the ranges have now been sold to a US company.
- Renaissance Era lines include Ottomans, Italian Wars, Landsknechts, Swiss, some Scots. They also have an Americas ranges of Mexican Triple Alliance, Tarascans, Mayans, Incas, Tupi, plus some civilians and animals.
Baueda
- Giving new meaning to the word "niche" in connection with 15mm ranges, Baueda, mostly known for manufacturing resin bagage camps and fortifications also a small range of figures.
- They are Emeshi Northern Japanese tribal warriors, and some Ottoman-Balcan Yaya incendiary javelinmen for pre 1512 Ottomans
QR Miniatures
- QR Miniatures is a newly formed company making 15mm Polish figures - from Poland.
- Currently they list 12 figures for Poles and Hungarians (1576-1631), Muscovites (1553-1630) and ECW (1642-52) - all in packs of 8 foot or 8 mounted
- The figures come as one piece castings as far as I can tell from the website
Gallia from Warrior Miniatures
- Small range of around 50 ECW figures, and also some Samurai all sold by Warrior Miniatures in Scotland.
- Figures are generally quite small , and are sold in singles
- No secure online ordering or Paypal.
Magister Militum
- Extensive War of the League of Ausgberg Range from Hallmark Figures, includes Highlanders, Foot, Dragoons, Grenadiers/Fusilers and Horse
- There are some pictures on the Deep Fried Happy Mice site of this range, and a short review. The figures are a little smaller than the equivalent Essex ranges, and the horses especially are a noticably smaller
- Sold in packs of 8 infantry or 5 cavalry - but you have to buy horses separately, which isn't currently clear from the website and which also makes the mounted rather pricey as they come out almost twice the price of Essex!
- Whilst the website is very good indeed, MM have no pictures for this range at the moment
Tin Soldier
- Samurai, Aztecs, Conquistadores and Warriors of Abyssinia that work for this era.
- Some of the ranges have a very distinctive style that in its extremes veers towards the cartoonish - which is not to everyone's tastes, but is definitely exactly right for some as well.
- The figures are sold in the usual packs of 8 and 4. Shields and spears are cast in hand. They are all designed and cast by Tin Soldier.
- The site has had a recent upgrade to include pictures and online ordering.
Mick Yarrow Miniatures / (previously known as MY Miniatures)
- UK Manufacturer with some C16 Spanish & Dutch (Colonials) listed, and a Sedgemoor range with Scots and Royalists as well
- Some of his ranges are Tabletop Games figure ranges also sold by a few other companies, but these look to be Mick Yarrow originals.
- Pictures only for a scattering of the figures, including the Sedgemoor ones.
- The site takes Paypal cash and cheques. They sell in 8 foot and 4 mounted for £2.00 and claim to be "Essex-sized"
Dixon Miniatures
- Samurai, Colonial Middle Eastern, Indian Mutiny (which might be OK for some Colonies and Conquest armies) and a malburian range that is almost OK for late C17. The default choice for Samurai - wonderfully animated figures.
- Sold in packs of 10 foot and 5 mounted - horses are bought separately
Blue Moon Manufacturing
- Blue Moon are a sub-set of Old Glory and sell 15/18mm figures for the Malburian and Great Northern Wars which just maybe creep in at the end of the Renaissance era, and also a range of Pirates (arrr!!) and - maybe - Deep Dark Africa as well. There is a Three Musketeers range in the pipeline, which is just about out now (March 2012). They are sold in the UK by Old Glory.
- The website has nice pictures of all the figures in the bare metal
- They sell in biggish packs (20-30) but with lots of variety in each pack - there are even some nice looking Civilians in the Pirate range
- The US site takes Paypal and credit cards
- Now available fromTimecast in the UK.
Flags
Flags are a big part of Renaissance gaming, so as well as figures, here are some flag sites
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