Thank you boys

I really appreciate your generous comments and your moral support.
Plynkes, I think the flags on the helmets was mainly a Burgundian thing. Like team leaders (so the enemy knew who to shoot at, presumably). Darned silly I think, and I've cut most of them off, but it did rather seem to fit on this chap with his... 'Come and kill me if you think you're hard enough' kinda attitude

Bjorn - any resemblance between the miniature of Il Capitano, and the artist, is purely coincidental...

R.