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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: argsilverson on January 18, 2010, 04:36:52 PM
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While surfing I found some interesting photos (and laso some info on Chakoten) about the Swedish Army early 1900's
They look very interesting:
http://medlem.spray.se/landsverk/uniform_m10.htm
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http://forum.uniforminsignia.org/viewtopic.php?t=6362&sid=ed47c5029e38adc0e2547cf0e84294a2
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http://www.chakoten.dk/cgi-bin/fm.cgi?n=1080
Anyone has any idea for making/converting any figures???
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They wore Tri-corns! That's just awesome!
Seebattalian and fold up two more sides?
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how bizarre.
well, one can always make a round brim out of lead foil and fold it up...
or why nou simple headswaps with appropriate period miniatures?
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I would go for conversions with 18th century Tricorns. You can then games a fictious invasion of Norway 1905. In reality the Swedes mobilised and war could have broken out if the negotioations wouldn´t have been successful.
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Yeah Martians could invade, or maybe ice trolls from the arctic lol
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Maybe they could come to Atlantis (in 1890)?
Hint, hint.
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(http://medlem.spray.se/landsverk/uniformer_31.jpg)
It looks like the tricorne is only one of the options. What a lovely shade of blue.
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You can then games a fictious invasion of Norway 1905.
No need for that Norway was part of Sweden until 1904 I think, or sort of ...
-Swedish/Norvegian history is not my high point!
(http://medlem.spray.se/landsverk/uniformer_31.jpg)
It looks like the tricorne is only one of the options. What a lovely shade of blue.
I think this a little later 1905 onwards or so...
In fact my impression was that the swedish army should have worn kepis, pickelhaubes etc. When I saw the tricorns, I really was impressed.
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Have a look at some of the early Swedish Napoleonics befor the Kiwer!
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Wow! What fantastic uniforms. Perfect as generic VSF "baddies" (with apologies to all our Swedish "goodies" ;) )
They have a real "Ruritanian" look to them and would do for any number of fictitious central-European powers.
If only someone would make some in 28mm :(
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early WWI austrians with tricorn heads
even the wigs wouldn't bother me
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They have a real "Ruritanian" look to them and would do for any number of fictitious central-European powers.
If only someone would make some in 28mm :(
Oooh oooh! I was just about to post asking if anyone knew any 'generically central/east European' minis that could be Ruritanians, I find myself *in need* of some... actually, not 'in need' in any real sense, more, 'hey I've just had a great idea...Ruritanians!'.
That was about 6 hours ago. Funny how great minds think alike ;)
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Do You mean Anthony Hope's Ruritania or
Ernest gellner's Ruritania or
perhaps Ruthenia?
and what time-setting? Interwar?
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No I really mean Anthony Hope's Ruritania, Prisoner of Zenda, James Mason as Rupert of Hentzau being sinister, and all that. I don't know about Ernest Gellner... except having looked it up on the web, it appears my 8 or 10 times watching the movie (and once watching the 1980s TV re-working) have obliterated some of the 'facts' of Ruritania that I must have gleaned from my one reading... Hope's Ruritania is between Dresden and Prague, and not 'approximately Serbia' as I had imagined.
I was thinking 'circa 1890' as I tend to for VSF. Maybe 1891, it can be next year's project. Maybe even my next VSF campaign setting... disintergrating Balkan State, the Austrians, Russians, Germans, Turks all trying to take over, the British French and Italians throwing their weight around too... difficult to see how the Japanese Navy and Chinese warlords get involved, but I'll have a think.
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I was thinking 'circa 1890' as I tend to for VSF. Maybe 1891, it can be next year's project. Maybe even my next VSF campaign setting... disintergrating Balkan State, the Austrians, Russians, Germans, Turks all trying to take over, the British French and Italians throwing their weight around too... difficult to see how the Japanese Navy and Chinese warlords get involved, but I'll have a think.
.... watch this space later in the year for some VSF Turks ;)
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now You are mixing both
Hope's is purely german, something like Luxemburg or Liechtenstein (OK,OK, these are not actually german)
Gellner's is an eastern European country with nationalist aspirations trying to break free from an empire
anyway, now I know what You want - basically anything with fur hats will do
these are widespread from northern carpathia to albania, from hungaria to siberia
it is also archetypical eastern european (no, I don't have a fur hat fetish :))
You are pretty free to use generic cossacks, hussars or any kind of uniform that has traditionally fur hats (no, not bearskins ;))
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.... watch this space later in the year for some VSF Turks ;)
and my VSF Greeks
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and my VSF Greeks
these I would really like to see ;)
the only thing that I can imagine is the cretan partisan outfit because VSF Evzones lol lol lol
OK, Highlanders wear skirts too
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No I really mean Anthony Hope's Ruritania, Prisoner of Zenda, James Mason as Rupert of Hentzau being sinister, and all that. I don't know about Ernest Gellner... except having looked it up on the web, it appears my 8 or 10 times watching the movie (and once watching the 1980s TV re-working) have obliterated some of the 'facts' of Ruritania that I must have gleaned from my one reading... Hope's Ruritania is between Dresden and Prague, and not 'approximately Serbia' as I had imagined.
I was thinking 'circa 1890' as I tend to for VSF. Maybe 1891, it can be next year's project. Maybe even my next VSF campaign setting... disintergrating Balkan State, the Austrians, Russians, Germans, Turks all trying to take over, the British French and Italians throwing their weight around too... difficult to see how the Japanese Navy and Chinese warlords get involved, but I'll have a think.
My Ruritania is purely german inspired! I used some FPW Prussians. infantry for the royalists in blues and jaegers in rifle green for those of the duke -king's brother. next army -small- will austrians in white and red for the princess Lavia's regiment.
I have toyed with the idea that Ruritania shares its border with some nations, that have similar uniforms with Serbia/Montenegro, Greece, Turkey, Italy and probably Romania. All -or most of them- having in reality more or less colourful uniforms, although colour dominated is various shades of blue, but you can find red and green infantry, brown mountaineers, black and sky blue hussars plus guards in tradional uniforms in various other colours. Each fictional country allied and enemy of any of the other so a whole (tiny I must say) world to play
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these I would really like to see ;)
the only thing that I can imagine is the cretan partisan outfit because VSF Evzones lol lol lol
OK, Highlanders wear skirts too
Oh yes:
Infantry in blue jacket, sky blue pants (red piping and plumes)
cavalry in green hussar styled uniform
evzones in white with black ornaments
sailors eh, Ok, sailors are almost similar to british navy
gendarmes in olive green, cretan gendarmerie in dark blue with crimson piping
plus some foreign advisors -french advisors, italian carabinieri, danish advisors and guards and any other fictitious uniform you may add for variety
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what style is the uniform cut?
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what style is the uniform cut?
Danish!
see here:
officers:
http://www.army.gr/multimedia/stoles/stoles/stoles07.htm
and other ranks:
http://www.army.gr/multimedia/stoles/stoles/stoles08.htm
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(http://medlem.spray.se/landsverk/uniformer_31.jpg)
It looks like the tricorne is only one of the options. What a lovely shade of blue.
The (http://Kungliga Livgardet till Häst) (Royal Horse Guards) still wears the uniform with kepi, but in a lighter blue.
The tricorn was a famously ill-judged national romantic relapse by General Quarter Masters harking back to the days of TYW and 7YW when Svenska Maneret was the scourge of the north and central Europe. ::) It was of little use but to collect rainwater.
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thought it had something to do with the days of swedish supremacy....
about the utility - like a chapka or a shlem would have been of much use....
or a bearskin for that matter
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No I really mean Anthony Hope's Ruritania, Prisoner of Zenda, James Mason as Rupert of Hentzau being sinister, and all that. I don't know about Ernest Gellner... except having looked it up on the web, it appears my 8 or 10 times watching the movie (and once watching the 1980s TV re-working) have obliterated some of the 'facts' of Ruritania that I must have gleaned from my one reading... Hope's Ruritania is between Dresden and Prague, and not 'approximately Serbia' as I had imagined.
I was thinking 'circa 1890' as I tend to for VSF. Maybe 1891, it can be next year's project. Maybe even my next VSF campaign setting... disintergrating Balkan State, the Austrians, Russians, Germans, Turks all trying to take over, the British French and Italians throwing their weight around too... difficult to see how the Japanese Navy and Chinese warlords get involved, but I'll have a think.
Me too!
Funny how great minds think alike ;)
.... and fools rarely differ :(
lol lol
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.... and fools rarely differ :(
lol lol
That too. Though I know it as 'fools seldom differ'. So if they do, it's not by any significant degree. lol
Anyway; swedes, they're lovely, n'est-ce pas?