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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: richarDISNEY on January 15, 2014, 05:10:36 PM
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Hey!
I am looking for some 'Hollywood' style Spanish guards for an upcoming pirate game.
You know the kind. Breastplates, Morion Helmets (metal mohawk kind), pikes, swords, etc...
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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The Assault Group, perhaps.
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Take a look at Foundry's Elizabethans and El Dorado & Swashbucklers figure lines.
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Crann Tara Miniatures mins has got Border Reivers and such. They are Elizabethan era.
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I've compiled an illustrated list here:
http://whiteknightminiatureimperium.blogspot.be/search/label/Spanish%20and%20Elisabethan%20Figures (http://whiteknightminiatureimperium.blogspot.be/search/label/Spanish%20and%20Elisabethan%20Figures)
Note that the Arsenal ones are now carried by Warlord Games.
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Very useful list, White Knight!
richardDisney, if you are ready for a little fantasy / 'clockworkpunk' look you may consider some Frebooter Imperials (http://www.freebooterminiatures.de/en/catalog/miniatures/imperials). Unfortunately there is only one mini in morion (and not sold alone):
(http://www.freebooterminiatures.de/sites/default/files/pub/shop/IMP019_kr_2795.jpg)
(yes, seemingly some of the Imperial soldiers are female).
Now, if there is a cheap source of heads in morion conversions would be a possibility -including for a more 'alt. 18th C. / Pirate sof the Caribbean'. look using for instance Wargames Factory WSS plastics?
Current Papal Swiss Guards also fit the bill, but seemingly they are not available in 28-30mm?
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HadZ8p8spyg/TssXN71pQoI/AAAAAAAABG0/jwnbuv1XeIg/s1600/swiss+guard.JPG)
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Brother Vinni has been showing fantastic chaps in morions, don't know who they were for though?
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For his own range.
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gamezone imperial figs :
http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/fr/imperio/71-alabarderos-i-del-imperio.html (http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/fr/imperio/71-alabarderos-i-del-imperio.html)
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Tercio Creativo produce some lovely stuff:
(http://www.terciocreativo.com/tienda/images/Guardia_Guardia_de_Ysbilia.jpg)
(http://www.terciocreativo.com/tienda/images/Sargento_Guardia_de_Ysbilia.jpg)
(http://www.terciocreativo.com/tienda/images/Suboficial_Morados_Viejos.jpg)
(http://www.terciocreativo.com/tienda/images/Arcabucero_Guardia_de_Ysbilia.jpg)
(http://www.terciocreativo.com/tienda/images/Quinto_Morados_Viejos.jpg)
http://www.terciocreativo.com/tienda/index.php/en
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Hello,
Wargames Foundry TYW002 or ECW45 could fix.
Redoubt Enterprises (ECW range) offers seperate helmets of any style - with and without feathers.
Regards
Achim
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Richardisney
we do a small but growing range of conquistadors/cavalry and artillery
pieces which may be of some use
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
www.gringo40s.blogspot.com
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Pirates in tricorne -or Pirettes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeTOhfDAGtA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeTOhfDAGtA)
vs Spaniards in morion started fascinating me some 60 years ago
(http://pepitopbdformat.pagesperso-orange.fr/pepitopetitformat/format_1_250.jpg)
(http://pepitopbdformat.pagesperso-orange.fr/pepitopetitformat/format_22_250.jpg)
(though generally Spaniard are given clothes stripped red and yellow, probably because of the 'blood and gold' of the modern Spanish flag?),
as did Pirettes, indeed
(http://pepitopbdformat.pagesperso-orange.fr/pepitopetitformat/format_16_250.jpg) :)
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I half expected it to be a cosmetics ad... "The Fountain of Youth... from l'Oreal"
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I half expected it to be a cosmetics ad... "The Fountain of Youth... from l'Oreal"
lol lol lol
(though generally Spaniard are given clothes stripped red and yellow, probably because of the 'blood and gold' of the modern Spanish flag?),
There might be another reason, as (though I haven't seen the example you mention), red and yellow were the livery of the 'Infanterķa de Marina' early on their founding (much earlier than the current flag even existed), so those were the colours on their breeches.
(http://i48.tinypic.com/34sjfyp.jpg) (http://www.revistatenea.es/RevistaAtenea/REVISTA/imagenes/articulos/GestionNoticias_1742150.jpg)
As they were (among other things) embarked infantry, it was quite usual to see them (and their colours) all over the seas; quite iconic for pirate stuff, I believe. :)
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What you use really depends on scale of your other figures. I find that Eureka's Conquistadors and Portugeuse lines mix will with Foundry's Swashbuckler range.
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And here's a link to the 28 mm Eureka Portugeuse (many of them also quite useful for Drake's men, who would look a bit ragged after months at sea. And the Slave/Quilombo and "Mamelucos" are easily usable both as the escaped slaves who helped Drake and as armed militias fighting for their Spanish masters against El Draco and his men.
http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=87_126_781_787&sort=3a
And here is the link to Eureka Conquistadors (which mix and match quite well with the Portugeuse, and both mix well with Foundry's Swashbucklers and Elizabethan lines)
http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=87_126_693&sort=3a
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/our-ranges/eldorado-and-swashbucklers/seadogs-and-mercenaries-collection-bcsb002/
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/our-ranges/elizebethans
The Tercio Creativo range is full of character, but rather large (closer to 31mm than 28mm), resin not metal, and on the expensive side. The Gamezone figures are nice and can be a little large, but nowhere near as big as the Tercio Creativo (about the size of Warhammer figures). Ral Parth is at the low end in both size and cost, between 25 mm and 28 mm (rather short next to Foundry and Eureka). The Assault Group are beautiful figures (a bit expensive for this side of the pond, and not that easy for an American to get his hands on).