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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Mr Mipps on 31 July 2007, 04:39:54 PM
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Parkfield Miniatures has just started a new range of 25mm piratey type figures (as if more pirates were needed!!!) with a new sculpt of a colonial governor to go with the pirate captain. At present only these figures, but soon to be joined by gun crews to go with the naval cannon.
http://www.parkfieldminiatures.freeservers.com/A-PIRATES-GOVERNOR.JPG
Simon
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Nice looking figure, I imagine that with UTBF & LotHS we will see a ton more Pirate figures in the next few months.
And for folks that enjoy Pirates (like me :mrgreen: ) than we are going to be spoiled!!!
TJSKI
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I'm looking forward to these coming out. Also, the Glorious Revolution soldiers would make excellent period Government troops. There are remarkably few lines for that period, which happens to correspond with the end of the buccanneers!
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Pete
I am actually considering doing a few more 'character' figures for the Glorious Revolution/pirates ranges as I am re visiting the League of Augsberg period at the moment.
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A good William of Orange would be a good job, and you can never go wrong with an Abdicated James in Disguise or somesuch.
Let us know when you've got more pictures!
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My, that governor looks mighty nice! I´ve got a whole army of FIW redcoats from Parkfield - nice figures, a little bit "toy-soldierish", but I really like it. Great service back then as well. I´m looking forward to more minis in that line.
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Westfalia Chris
Great service back then as well
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Hopefully the service hasn't changed that much. I really enjoy making these 'character' figures.
Simon
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I have no recent experience, and I ordered back in May ´03... but I don´t think it´ll have changed for the worse.
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Just found the Parkfield website and saw some very interesting pieces.
Especially liked the smugglers.
Just out of interest, why are half the Cornish smugglers wearing kilts ?
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Just out of interest, why are half the Cornish smugglers wearing kilts ?
Dunno, but believe it or not, as part of the Cornish quest for ethnic minority status and a Celtic identity (which I do quite sympathise with, even though the population of Cornwall is now probably so diluted with incomers that they are barely Celtic at all), there is an official Cornish tartan - a rather dull black, white and yellow affair - and various dodgy assertions that the kilt is an authentic item of traditional Cornish menswear, along with the Scots, Irish, Basques etc.
(Or do Basques wear basques? Anyway... )
So yes, as of today, you can buy genuine Cornish kilts in Cornwall. Bizarrely. But I don't think there's much of a market.
I suspect it's all a tissue of romantic invention and inter-Celt 'me-too-ism' ...but no doubt somebody Cornish will pop up to put me right... ;)
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............and a Celtic identity............
Which will be a problem for them considering there's no such thing as Celts........ :?
Doug
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Always ready for a bit of corsair goodness.
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............and a Celtic identity............
Which will be a problem for them considering there's no such thing as Celts........ :?
Doug
Not in a racial sense no, but there are Celts, make no mistake about that. ;)
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considering there's no such thing as Celts........ :?
Doug
Cor, Doug! That's a hand grenade and no mistake...
Do I detect some historical revisionism has taken place?
Go on then, allow me to step into your pit lined with poisoned stakes...
If there's no such thing as Celts, why do I have almost an entire shelf of one bookcase groaning under historical, archaeological (and quite recent) titles such as (durr) 'The Celts', (several of these by different authors) 'In search of the Celts', 'The Celtic Tradition', 'Celtic Britain', 'The Celtic Landscape', etc etc... ???
This would tend to suggest a rather large consensus amongst historians, ethnographers, etc, that there was (or is) a dispersed population of peoples with sufficient common characteristics that they could all safely be labelled Celts. No one ever said they were all one homogenous group, as far as I'm aware.
Go on, let's hear it! ;)
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I'm a bit nervous replying to someone called Captain Blood but I'll just have to stiffen the sinews etc. Although not today, because I'm packing up to go to Phalanx at 5.00am tomorrow. Next week I'll dig out my revisionist references and float them past so you can blow them out of the water, Cap'n.
Doug
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Next week I'll dig out my revisionist references and float them past so you can blow them out of the water, Cap'n.
Doug
Thanks Doug ;)
Always good to keep up with the latest thinking on 2,500 year old topics lol
Good luck with Phalanx!
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If there's no such thing as Celts, why do I have almost an entire shelf of one bookcase groaning... ???
This would tend to suggest a rather large consensus amongst historians, ethnographers, etc,
Maybe it's just a large consensus amongst publishers and booksellers ? :~}
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If there's no such thing as Celts, why do I have almost an entire shelf of one bookcase groaning... ???
This would tend to suggest a rather large consensus amongst historians, ethnographers, etc,
Maybe it's just a large consensus amongst publishers and booksellers ? :~}
Hmmm. Good point. Celts are a definite moneyspinner. ;)
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Well I suppose if you're a publisher it's got to be a temptation, and it's either the Celts or the SS.
Of course the real money would come in on "Celtic Mythology of the SS"....:~}
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Well I suppose if you're a publisher it's got to be a temptation, and it's either the Celts or the SS.
Of course the real money would come in on "Celtic Mythology of the SS"....:~}
lol I think you're missing a trick there... It really should be "Celtic Mythology of the SS swimming with killer sharks" ;)
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Sheesh them Cornish stealing our ideas, the black and white is the Shepherds Tartan from Northumbria
(http://blog.albanach.org/uploaded_images/100_3810-766465.JPG)
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I don't know if anyone is still following this but I said I'd come back to it so here I am.
When I said there's no such thing as Celts I should have been more careful because, of course, there were people known as Celts in Gaul. What I should have emphasised was that the modern notion of this wild, international group of freedom loving party-animals
(so different to the buttoned-up English) called Celts is a relatively modern fiction. Here's a quote from Dr Simon James of Leicester university:
"However, there is one thing that the Romans, modern archaeologists and the Iron Age [British] islanders themselves would all agree on: they were not Celts. This was an invention of the 18th century; the name was not used earlier."
That's what I was getting at. Oh, and by the way, I'm of Scots/Irish ancestry and lived in Wales for 20 years so I've got no antipathy to any of the those nations that like to call themselves "Celts" today - I'm just drawn to quite an interesting topic.
Doug
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I don't know if anyone is still following this but I said I'd come back to it so here I am.
When I said there's no such thing as Celts I should have been more careful because, of course, there were people known as Celts in Gaul. What I should have emphasised was that the modern notion of this wild, international group of freedom loving party-animals
(so different to the buttoned-up English) called Celts is a relatively modern fiction. Here's a quote from Dr Simon James of Leicester university:
"However, there is one thing that the Romans, modern archaeologists and the Iron Age [British] islanders themselves would all agree on: they were not Celts. This was an invention of the 18th century; the name was not used earlier."
That's what I was getting at. Oh, and by the way, I'm of Scots/Irish ancestry and lived in Wales for 20 years so I've got no antipathy to any of the those nations that like to call themselves "Celts" today - I'm just drawn to quite an interesting topic.
Doug
I knew what you meant Celt is a term more strongly used than say Germanic e.g. Saxons, Jutes and Angles, Goths etc all share some commonality in culture but have their own culture too.
Very much like the Germanic fashions in the 1920s and 1930s that was popular in Europe