[commercial] Building the Three Musketeers’ Garrison

[SupremeLittlenessDesigns]

Follow the building of a Three Musketeers’ headquarters based on the set from the BBC TV series on my blog – here:

https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/category/three-musketeers/



I feel it’s time for a bit of swashbuckling!

Michael

[Count Belisarius]

Really interesting project. How do the Northstar musketeers compare in size to the Redoubt ones? And to Renegade and the like?

[SupremeLittlenessDesigns]

I don't have any Redoubt or Renegade musketeer types, myself. I'm sure someone on this excellent forum will help us out.

I'm looking forward to getting hold of the yet to be released Bloody Miniatures' not quite The Three Musketeers pack.

[Count Belisarius]

Yes. The upcoming Swashbucklers look splendid

[v_lazy_dragon]

Really interesting project. How do the Northstar musketeers compare in size to the Redoubt ones? And to Renegade and the like?

I can't give specific comparisons as I don't have the musketeers set; but the Northstar 1672 range as a whole is fairly chunky and works with the figures I have from Bicorne and Bloody (and by extension Renegade, although I don't have any of them). Redoubt will be bigger, but if you took their bases down some and maybe added a shim to the NS/Bircorne/Bloody models they should fit ok

[Count Belisarius]

Thanks for that. Always good to get the all clear on purchasing new figures! 🙂

[SupremeLittlenessDesigns]

A lean-to built for the Musketeers' Garrison against a new wall design. See post 5:

https://projects.supremelittleness.co.uk/5-garrison-lean-to/

Taking an elegant side step away from the courtyard build for a moment, we’ve already acquired enough real estate to provide our miniature Musketeers with enough of a stage set for a street scene encounter. But where are the Red Guard?

[serran]

Buildings look great! Looking forward to seeing more of this. I have the Redoubt figures but IMHO they are just too big to be compatible with other ranges. I'm hoping Bloody Miniatures comes up with some Cardinal's Guard.....

[Calvin59]

Elevation of the Hôtel des Mousquetaires Gris, rue du Bac
France, circa 1720
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Département des estampes et de la photographie
Inv. R. de C. 1035 / Fossier 19.13
In 1659, Louis XIV ordered that a hotel be built for his company of musketeers, who thus became the first soldiers of the royal army to benefit from a barracks, to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, subject, until then, to the housing of "men of war". Due to work carried out laboriously and without great care, the barracks quickly became dilapidated and several projects aimed to move it. Robert de Cotte, the king's first architect, was finally commissioned to restore the building in 1720. This elevation shows the original state of the façade on rue du Bac (left) and his improvement project (right). 

[fastolfrus]

Really interesting project. How do the Northstar musketeers compare in size to the Redoubt ones? And to Renegade and the like?

Warbases have some too, but the Northstar figures are better dressed

[Calvin59]

I would say that the Reboubt figurines are more from the time of Louis XIII, than those of North Star are from the time of Louis XIV. 

[SupremeLittlenessDesigns]

Dumas has D’Artagnan begin his story in 1625 while the BBC TV series begins in 1630. However, both in the reign of Louis XIII. Louis XIV’s barrack building, although interesting, is much too late for my Musketeers and my model is of the BBC TV’s Garrison stage set.

[Calvin59]

Yes I agree SupremeLittlenessDesigns, but under the time of Louis XIII the musketeers were housed in the homes of the inhabitants, and it was only under the time of Louis XIV that they were barracked. It was Mazarin who dissolved the corps in 1646 and it was Louis XIV who recreated it in 1657.
But your model is superb, and I would have great pleasure in following the evolution of its development. 

[SupremeLittlenessDesigns]

In the BBC series the Musketeers are housed in private accommodation. The Musketeers’ Garrison is just a fancy name for a stable block where Treville has an upstairs office and the Musketeers do a bit of training outside in the courtyard.

The set doubles up as a street scene. There is an attempted assassination of the royal couple who enter the street through what is the Garrison’s entranceway but then take a sharp right down what appears to be a completely different street. All quite similar to what we will be able to do in miniature with these modular models!

[Calvin59]

Thank you for your clarifications, so I understand the situation much better. As I told you, I would be very happy to follow the progress of your project.