Left Bank | 26 Mar 2015 6:22 a.m. PST |
Been doing a bit of research into the Miquelet and updated my blog with some interesting finds. Always happy to get more information. link link
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Great War Ace | 26 Mar 2015 7:22 a.m. PST |
"[He is] so clean and neat. [Somebody] takes good care of [him]." Unless your scale is 54mm or larger, I don't see how the detail on the musket can possibly matter. What's with the conch shell?… |
ColCampbell | 26 Mar 2015 7:48 a.m. PST |
It probably was a signalling device. Pacific islanders used them so why not Mediterranean peoples? Jim |
Andy Skinner | 26 Mar 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
Nice paint job and terrain, but why didn't you flock his base? :) andy |
Lluis of Minairons | 26 Mar 2015 11:26 a.m. PST |
What's with the conch shell?… It was used as signalling device replacing horns, so as to show their Almughavar heritage – for medieval Almughavars were said to use such shells too. Miquelets regiments grew a strong esprit de corps on that alleged heritage. |
Lluis of Minairons | 26 Mar 2015 11:39 a.m. PST |
I forgot to add that the artist's name is Mar H. Pongiluppi, whose portfolio can be found at her website, www.marhp.com. Website is in Catalan language. I'm proud to say she is also author of the drawings illustrating our SCW 20mm figure boxes Lluís www.minairons.eu |
Left Bank | 26 Mar 2015 1:24 p.m. PST |
Nice paint job and terrain, but why didn't you flock his base? I had the spray gun full of watered down pva ready to go but the wife was too busy to mow the lawn so ran out scatter! Thanks for the input and the link Liuis, I think I may have another of her drawings in my library they are excellent resources. |
abdul666lw | 26 Mar 2015 1:48 p.m. PST |
@ Left Bank: *Great* to have Miquelets available in 30mm! So much the more as you did a great work on them. Tradition had few, and those of the late & lamented London Warroom were afaik not taken up by the new owner of the range. The French army included identical Fusiliers de Montagne during the WAS and SYW, and they have a natural place in many ImagiNative armies. The 'model' in the OP is excellent, but – as with the reenactors pictured on your site – the colors are maybe too bright for the period (no synthetic dyes then, only easily fading 'natural' ones), specially for a humble trooper of a 'wild' unit? @ Lluis: So good to read you alaive & kicking! Now, what about Her Highness Elisenda? Is she still stranded in the snow? |
Lluis of Minairons | 26 Mar 2015 2:07 p.m. PST |
@Abdul666: Glad to meet you again, too. Still too busy with Minairons Miniatures to carry our 18th Century what-if Catalan Imagi-Nation --although I must admit some high pressure from my gaming mate Jordi to re-take it ASAP. Lluís |
Dogged | 26 Mar 2015 3:59 p.m. PST |
Ha! I know all those Miquelets in your picture! The three in the middle are father, mother an son, excellent people and great reenactors! |
Left Bank | 26 Mar 2015 4:36 p.m. PST |
Nice to see you posting abdul666, this picture should satisfy
I will look to convert some figures into something along the lines of bandits and desperadoes at a later date as I think they should work well for skirmish gaming etc. This might have something of interest for you abdul666 link |
spontoon | 29 Mar 2015 8:52 p.m. PST |
Anyone got pics of the Miqueletti Sardi from the 1740's? |
Bumbydad | 25 Sep 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
I have some 1/72 Miquelets--too many, I think, for my WSS Spanish Army. Did other troops in Spain wear their coat as sort of a pelisse? Did they do this because of the heat? And did they do it while in action? |