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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP04 Sep 2017 11:40 a.m. PST

"The Gewalthaufen gets its fire support with twelve arquebusiers. They are moving rather freely with their handguns, everyone is busy with loading and aiming.
There's no reglement with Handguns in this age, the 15th cent. We can assume that they were in combat like Tiailleurs or they fought from a stronghold position.


I sculpted their gear as a little bag and a gun powder vessel, hanging with straps over the shoulder.
Analogical to their comrades of the pikeblock I did the jacket over the armour. My suggestion is, that the jacket could be seen as a livreč jacket in an uniform pattern, like the unified standard with the logistics of the handguns, with consistent measurements, they must have had.


For their protection they wear sallets and warhats with breastplates and chainmails. At their side they have a long knife or a kind of swiss epee…"


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Puster Sponsoring Member of TMP04 Sep 2017 12:56 p.m. PST

Superb!

I would go broke on these minis if they would be in 28mm.

chrisminiaturefigs04 Sep 2017 12:59 p.m. PST

Me too!!!!

Retiarius905 Sep 2017 6:26 a.m. PST

they look fantastic, with real human proportions

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP05 Sep 2017 10:58 a.m. PST

Happy you like them boys!. (smile)

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Bowman05 Sep 2017 11:40 a.m. PST

I would go broke on these minis if they would be in 28mm.

Yep, me also!!

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP05 Sep 2017 10:50 p.m. PST

Glad you like them too my friend!.


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