| Dining Room Battles | 17 Jan 2015 7:55 a.m. PST |
Start of my painting of Warlord Games' Prince Rupert and his War Poodle Boye:
link |
| panzerCDR | 17 Jan 2015 8:10 a.m. PST |
Nice. Thanks for sharing. Don't mess with poodles! My first dog was a poodle mix and she was smart and more aggressive in defending hearth and home than some other dogs we have owned. I am not sure she would have survived a cavalry charge though . . . |
Phillius  | 17 Jan 2015 2:07 p.m. PST |
Wasn't Boye black? Didn't the Roundheads refer to him as Ruperts evil shade or something? |
| arthur1815 | 17 Jan 2015 2:13 p.m. PST |
A Parliamentarian pamphlet certainly portrayed Boye as black, but that may simply have been a symbolic way of indicating that he was an evel familiar. |
| Coelacanth | 17 Jan 2015 3:23 p.m. PST |
It seems that Boye was pretty well documented: link poodlehistory.org/PARMY.HTM Thanks for sharing your work; they are going to look awesome when you are done. Ron |
| Dining Room Battles | 19 Jan 2015 12:28 p.m. PST |
Coelacanth – Thanks for the link on Boye's history! |
| Mallen | 19 Jan 2015 12:58 p.m. PST |
I seem to recall that the Parliamentarians regarded Rupert as being in league with Satan and that Boye was deemed to be his "Familiar." Hence, the portrayal of the hound as black. |
| pilum40 | 19 Jan 2015 3:16 p.m. PST |
It's a well known fact that Rupert WAS Satan and Boye was in league with him! LOL |
| Jeff of SaxeBearstein | 19 Jan 2015 3:26 p.m. PST |
pilum40, While I dislike contradicting such a fine gentleman as yourself, I must take exception to your previous comment. Prince Rupert was NOT Satan. That is a lie perpurtrated by that demon in human flesh who sought to outlaw Christmas. I mean Oliver Cromwell. Remember that anyone who loves dogs can't be all bad. *snicker*
-- Jeff
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| Mallen | 20 Jan 2015 6:50 a.m. PST |
Little known fact: Rupert TRIED to sell his soul to Satan, but misspelled his name on the pact. Thus, he mistakenly sold his soul to a guy named Stan. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 24 Jan 2015 12:32 p.m. PST |
"Get thee behind me, Santa!!!" |
| arthur1815 | 24 Jan 2015 2:36 p.m. PST |
Jeff, according to WC Fields:
"Any man who hates children and dogs can't be all bad!" |
begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame.
