British Civil War 6mm forces

These are my oldest 6mm figures and are all from Irregular Miniatures.  I bought most of them from the wargames shop that used to be near King's Cross station back in the late 1980's or early 1990's.  After the intervening 30 plus years they are a little battered and in need of some TLC and a rebase.  Some are still awaiting the touch of a paint brush and a first base!

So here they all are.  Zoom in too see the details

Most of them are the original Irregular Miniatures designs with musketeers that are cast standing feet together with musket at port across the chest and that made them fragile.  Unsurprisingly a number have snapped off, or are in danger of snapping off, at the ankles.  Some are the later design which are more robust and have more animation to them.  Those have alternating firing and loading figures on each strip which isn't how I want them.  I prefer a rank to be all firing, all loading or all standing waiting rather than a mixture.  Still a bit of careful work with side cutters will solve that.

Old style musketeers on show here.  Painted 30 years ago.

And here are the newer style figures painted much more recently.

I'm struggling to decide how to rebase these figures.  The pikemen are cast in close order, shoulder to shoulder with no way to split them down. so I am stuck with the casting's frontages of 20mm or multiples of that.  The shot are on 30mm frontages and cavalry on 25mm so unlike DBA or ADLG I can't use a standard base frontage.  I may have to go old school and count each strip as being 100 men and just live with the different frontages as showing different order, pike in close order and shot in order.  No matter what I decide to do, there will have to be an order heading off to Warbases in due course as nothing in my pile of DBA style bases will match.  Plus as you can see from the first image there is some painting to be done!  The other issue is that I will have to ask  Irregular if they can supply the figures needed to complete some units as they are not retailing their 6mm range at present.