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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: fastolfrus on 25 May 2014, 05:50:41 PM
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Can anyone recommend any decent books on the Night Watch?
Or suitable figures for the captain or lieutenant?
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Do you mean Cpt. Vimes of the Night Watch? Cardboard boots?
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If that's what he means, then there's always the Discworld Miniatures from Micro Art Studio: http://shop.microartstudio.com/discworld-miniatures-c-48.html
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As for books on the Night Watch, it's hard to beat 'Guards! Guards!'.
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Or the Rembrandt painting? I don't know about books, but Peter Greenaway's conspiracy theory film about it, Nightwatching, is worth a look. The DVD includes an accompanying documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446750/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_26 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446750/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_26)
I assume from the board that we are not talking about the Russian vampire books and films.
Edit - corrected an apostrophe.
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It's the Rembrandt version.
Steve - I'll look for Nightwatching as a starter.
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Oh, I had a good chuckle there... From Pratchett to Rembrandt overnight.
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Someone actually did a really impressive diorama of Rembrandt's Night Watch recently, but I can't seem to find it.
EDIT: Not sure if it was the Sheperd Paine version: http://sheperdpaine.com/gallery/boxes/index.htm
I don't think this was the version I was thinking of, but it's a version nonetheless.
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couldn't you just use a collection of officers and sergeants with some lanterns added
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Gray Ghost, IIRC there are no lanterns in the painting. It is probably not even supposed to depict night time - it only acquired the name "The Night Watch" after the varnish had a couple of centuries to darken horribly.
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couldn't you just use a collection of officers and sergeants with some lanterns added
Perhaps, but from which ranges?
The captain and lieutenant are quite different heights, so perhaps one 28mm and one 25mm (or a 28mm and a 32mm?), and the costumes are fairly distinctive, but I'm not sure if I've seen any that are really close.
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The picture itself (courtesy of Wikipedia) for ease of reference:
(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w519/SteveFlanaganUK2/Odds%20and%20Ends/720px-The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt_zpse1066585.jpg) (http://s1079.photobucket.com/user/SteveFlanaganUK2/media/Odds%20and%20Ends/720px-The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt_zpse1066585.jpg.html)
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We actually went to Amsterdam and saw the picture up close - most of the day that room is full, but we found that by arriving at the museum just on opening time and going straight to that gallery (instead of browsing through all the other stuff on the way) we got the picture almost to outselves.
Well worth a visit - and the museum has quite a lot on the VOC (Dutch East India Company) if you're gaming anything colonial 17th/18th century.
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If I were going to make them I would start with The Assault Group, Essex has a few nice officers.
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If I were going to make them I would start with The Assault Group, Essex has a few nice officers.
Do you know if they scale closely to each other or will they give the height difference?
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I guess you will have seen this-
[url][/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ys2UCROU0&feature=kp]
If not ,the Night Watch flash mob on you tube is fantastic!
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Look at the old Glory packs there are a lot of very useful officers. Emile Horky's figures too!