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Tuesday 21 October 2008
Dixon's Grand Alliance Figures
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Thursday 16 October 2008
SK's First Foot Guards
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Back in 2004-5 the Sealed Knot - the UK's largest and oldest Civil War Society - took on the Monmouth Rebellion as a period. It was done by certain groups and they did - in my opinion - a good job of recreating the the redcoats of 1685- in particular the First Foot Guards who were done by Ruperts Bluecoats.
Article here
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Tuesday 14 October 2008
Ebob armatures
Now the question is... what should I try? To my mind the area of history not that well covered by figure makers is the 1670s... the Dutch Wars or Franco-Dutch wars. Most ranges are for the 1690s - sort of Boyne/Grand Alliance; less well covered is the era after the ECW and before Sedgemoor. The Restoration in the UK I suppose it is known as. It means sculpting bandoliers, but in other aspects its not that difficult. Of course I may not get round to it...
Monday 13 October 2008
King William's War in Britain
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Did I mention that we did a North American 1690s (King William's War) event in the UK at the American Museum Bath to celebrate the museum's 40th birthday? It was pretty good - this was one of the photos I took in the woods near my house to publicise it - pictured are Colonial Militia on patrol. There was a fair bit of cross-over of kit for Monmouth Rebellion and 1690s colonial as you can imagine.
Further down the line we did a Salem Witch trial event which was very popular though we didn't pursue it.
Illustrations
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Game of the Siege of 11 September 1714
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The War of Spanish Succession has great significance in the Iberian peninsula - this Catalan wargames site has many links to themes of this time period including this game of the siege of Barcelona.
Captain Blood
The film that made Errol Flynn a star this sequence - 1 of 12 - deals with the back story of how Blood came to be arrested - he was acting as a surgeon during the Monmouth Rebellion. Many swashbuckling adventures are to follow but these scenes are pretty enjoyable on their own
Wednesday 1 October 2008
Jean-Antoine Watteau
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