"magister militum 10mm Dutch Carabiniers" Topic

anyone have any pictures of magister militums 10mm DB402 Dutch Carabiniers in Bicorne

have emailed twice but got no response

TIA

MM have a habit of recycling figures from other ranges – for example their Spanish Grenadiers are actually look like Austrian Grenadiers and lack the characteristic long bag of the former. This was one of the few figures from this company I was disappointed with.

You might find that they are very similar to other bicorne cavalry, say the

Spanish

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Prussian early

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These two are, essentially the same figure.

Or possibly the British

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At 10mm it doesn't really matter an 'paint conversions' are easy.

Please don't take this as a criticism of an excellent company that does first class figures and provides great service.

Sorry for the delay replying last week, I was at a housing conference (I am the Wiltshire Councillor responsible for social housing as well as running Magister Militum).

We use a set of horses (three different sizes and two poses of each) but each set of cavalry or infantry for each nationality have been unique sculpts to start with. Conversions are used inside national ranges, for example the French Guard were all converted from the same initial figures (the national guard who had the most basic uniform). There are a couple of cases where we have used a figure from one nation as the conversion base for another but only where the uniform is very similar, Polish infantry for example or dutch belgian militia officers.

It is interesting that the figures are looking similar in cases as the Austrian and French grenadiers were both separate sets of figures, both converted from line infantry I think.

The dutch belgian heavy cavalry were converted from each other and I don't recall which was done first but the first one was a unique set of sculpts.

I hope that helps. The figures should be back from painting soon and will then get photographed.