Moorish Forces at Tangier - Kirke's Lambs

[Romark]

Looking good!

Seconded!🙂

[NurgleHH]

With colour on the plastic you made the figures great. They could also work as Bedouin outlaws in middle Egypt raiding a Nile boat. Great, Sir!

[Hu Rhu]

Looking good!

Thanks.

Seconded!🙂

Thanks Keith

With colour on the plastic you made the figures great. They could also work as Bedouin outlaws in middle Egypt raiding a Nile boat. Great, Sir!

Glad you like them.  Yes they can double with other periods.

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

Lovely work - and thanks for the emails!

[Helen]

Lovely looking unit.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Excellent, lovely painting.

[Hu Rhu]

Lovely work - and thanks for the emails!

Thanks - and you're welcome.

Lovely looking unit.

Excellent, lovely painting.

Thank you both.

Next up are the first of the English forces.  These are Fronk Rank miniatures, painted as The 1st (or Old) Tangier Regiment, latre to be known as Kirke's Lambs. 







I have mounted these figures on 1p coins - different from the Moors - as I intend these to do double duty as troops in both Monmouth's Rebellion and in the 9 Years War using 'Under the Lily Banners' rules mounted in sabot bases.

[Romark]

Love 'em

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

Before it went all "touchy-feely", the National Army Museum in London used to have a display case with a 1:1 depiction of Kirke's Lambs, complete with pikes and colours in the centre and grenadiers on each flank. I think they used the venerable Dixon range - the first to cover this period in 25mm, I believe.  Sadly, the donor had done too good (ie accurate) a paint job on them and the figures were so dark you could barely see them inside the case!

[Friends of General Haig]

They look cracking 👍

[carlos marighela]

Nice work.

If you can, you should go for a separate command group with officers in the grey, presumably lightweight, coats that Wenceslas Hollar depicted. The French command codes from the Northstar, ex-Copplestone range are best for that, as they have the elbow length cuffs. I’ve been meaning to buy a pack to give mine separate command bases for Tangier and Sedgemoor.

[Hu Rhu]

Love 'em

They look cracking 👍

Thanks very much.

Nice work.

If you can, you should go for a separate command group with officers in the grey, presumably lightweight, coats that Wenceslas Hollar depicted. The French command codes from the Northstar, ex-Copplestone range are best for that, as they have the elbow length cuffs. I’ve been meaning to buy a pack to give mine separate command bases for Tangier and Sedgemoor.

Thanks.  I am unfamiliar with the drawing/painting that you mention.  What period is that for?  Given that these are going to cover all three periods, I don't want to use something that was only right in one place. 

I haven't gotten any of the Northstar figures yet.  Are they a good match for Front Rank?

[carlos marighela]

Hollar was a noted artist and visited Tangier around 1668/69. He produced a collection of sketches, maps and watercolours that are pretty much the only graphic record of Tangiers for the period of English occupation. Google Hollar and Tangiers and you will get dozens of useful pics. Especially useful if you plan on building the town walls and defences.

There’s a well known sketch of Sir Palmes Fairborne, the Governor of Tangiers wearing a very French influenced and for the time very fashionable coat. The same figure is also incorporated in a larger watercolour scene where the coat is shown as grey.

I’ve added the sketch and also the Osprey interpretation of the watercolour.

The Northstar figures are exquisite and basically paint themselves. Size wise they are a decent match for Front Rank. Despite Mark having sculpted the Dixon range, his later figures are considerably talker than the Dixons, although with some creative basing and placed in separate units they can work.

On the topic of miniatures, if you also plan on doing Sedgemoor, it’s worth having a look at some of the Brigade Games King Phillip’s War range.

[carlos marighela]

Some more of Hollar’s sketches here:

http://warsoflouisxiv.blogspot.com/2017/03/wenceslaus-holllar-pictures-of-tangiers.html

[Hu Rhu]

Thanks very much for the pics and the links.  I have the Osprey book but did not link the two as being in the same regiment.  I might paint up the three officers I have with grey coats.