"Perry Light Cavalry - Jinetes " Topic
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| Tango01 | 04 Jul 2015 12:01 p.m. PST |
"Jinetes were the Spanish light cavalry who used tactics developed from centuries of fighting the Moors in Spain during the Reconquista. Converting a set out of the Perry Plastics has been a project I have wanted to do for ages. Originally I was going to convert them from the Men at Arms plastic set, as I did with my lighter cavalry, but when I found out the Perrys were working on a specific set of light cavalry for the late 15th century I decided to wait for these. There is not really that much conversion work in the figures in all honesty but a few little changes have been done to make them look like Jinetes. One thing I will note is that I think Jinetes actually rode their horses in quite a different style from Western European cavalry in the late middle ages. While these figures ride with their legs nearly straight, Jinetes would have ridden with shorter stirrups and bent knees…"
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Armand |
| BelgianRay | 04 Jul 2015 1:21 p.m. PST |
Great work and very good painting. |
| Tango01 | 05 Jul 2015 11:53 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed them my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Codsticker | 07 Jul 2015 8:41 a.m. PST |
Nice. I had a similar idea in mind but have never got around to it. |
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