My personal project... Sculpting Spanish for Late 17 century.officer added!12/06

[chema1986]

Hi all, As you may know, there are some differences between the Spanish uniform of 1670 onwards (and earlier too!) and other European armies, sadly nobody produces them in 28mm today, Northstar 1672 ( Phoenix Miniatures ) discontinued them not so long ago.

With that in mind I want to enlarge my collection for the League of Augsburg war, with more kind of miniatures in order to represent uniforms for the War of the Devolution and above all, the Franco Dutch War. They are useful too for Spanish marines in the Americas and garrisons against the Moors in North Africa.
The Spanish uniform from late 1660 to 1680-90 would be this:


I already have unarmoured pikemen, and musketeers, as well as some officers, musicians and flag bearers but I wanted to have more dragoons and armoured pikemen as well as some new poses so I started this miniproject, the first of the new miniatures fully compatible with Northstar 1672 and Front Rank, An armoured pikeman of the later Spanish Tercios (the pike itself is horrible, I know, I will use Northstar's)






I want to expand the range with foot dragoons and maybe a pair of officers. I am no manufacturer nor a company  but If anyone is interested in this miniproject of course can contact me.

Cheers

[jambo1]

Very nice looking mini, interesting project.

[Anderson Collection]

Very nice well done

[mweaver]

He looks sharp!

-Michael

[DintheDin]

Piquero maravilloso! Keep up the good job! Eager to see your next sculpt!

[chema1986]

Thanks all, the next will be a dismounted dragoon, but I am not the sculptor, only the painter, gamer and collector

[carlos marighela]

Excellent, this has piqued my interest. The sculpts look good and I hadn't realised North Star had stopped producing the Spanish, although I do recall struggling to find them on their site so I suspect ypu are right.

Look forward to seeing progress on the range. Now if someone wouod just do some late 18th C Spanish as well.

[chema1986]

Yes , I wrote to North star and I think it was Nick who told me that sub range was gone... and they were not officially part of North Star 1672. So I plan to fill the gaps with a few new sculpts.

[Matakakea]

This does look rather tempting. I'll have to check against my bank balance later this year.

[Arthur]

That's interesting - and the sculpt looks very good. It's a shame that the now rather inappropriately named Phoenix Miniatures (a.k.a North Star) Spanish range is gone as I would have gladly added some to my existing force.

[chema1986]

You are right Arthur, I dont know what happened with that minis... but the were nice. I you have ideas fot this sculptor, you can tell me ! I will add a dismounted dragoon next week.

Cheers

[chema1986]

Hi there, now I add a new little mate , a dismounted dragoon, inspired by this illustration ( which have a mistake that I tried to correct )

[DintheDin]

This fellow, after being painted in the splendid-looking uniform of the illustration will be awesome!

[chema1986]

Hello again, I have a new sculpt, this time, a Spanish officer,  with cuirass under the long coat. The illustration used is this one, from the 1670' Showing the Castilian companies which defended Ceuta from the Moors.



And the sculpt itself, is modified from the illustration, I wanted him with an open hand in order to carry a partizan, halberd or Flag. The sword was reworked because at first it had a ridiculous size.

before redoing the sword


after the sword modification




Cheers!!

[jambo1]

Lovely looking figure.