"15mm Minifigs - Mule Train" Topic

I can't find these crate-laden mules among the current Minifigs offereings. Nonetheless, more elements to the baggage train completed!

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Very nice painting. The area that I always disregard is logistics when planning and painting armies. Come to think of it, I don't even have caissons for all or my artillery.

When I saw the title, I immediately thought of Borax 20 mule team laundry soap, which I still use and "Death Valley Days," which I used to watch with my Dad on a 20 inch black and white TV.

They all look great!

The drivers are listed under Napoleonic>Spanish.

Can't find the mules, but there is a pack of donkeys with round wicker baskets on there in a few places from Renaissance section through to Age of Steam.

I've scoured the catalogue many times looking for suitable 'donor' figures for my ECW armies, don't remember seeing those before. There's lots of interesting stuff hidden away in various periods still in production.

I've also done a trawl for the box carrying mules but to no effect.

No apology needed for the 'medieval' wheels on the wagon. A search for 'spain ox wagon' comes up with (amidst a whole bunch of Latin American examples) a photo labelled as being in Cordoba with a wagon with solid wheels. It also has a 19th century pencil drawing by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps of a solid wheeled wagon. If anything, they are even more rustic than the Minifigs ones.
Going by the trouble that was had with artillery wheels breaking on Spanish roads, perhaps peasants in some areas found solid wheels more robust – or at least easier to replace – making up for disadvantages of weight etc.

Seeing how good yours look, I might even refurbish my own medieval Minifigs wagons which I bought so long ago that the range was probably called 'modern'.