Then we have the long awaited and previously missing, Hungarian Grenadier Command.
Highlander Firing Line
And introducing the mounted ladies and gentlemen set. These figures will fit all the light horses in the range, including the heroic horse and the Hussars galloping horses. Remember to let me know which horses are required when ordering, or I will just supply walking or standing as a default.
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Top shelf Frank, Richard.
Plenty of welcome additions.
Frank,
the civilians look simply excellent in their definitive form!
Der Alte Fritz predicted they will sell well to the Imaginations crowd to depict the rulers: it's true, but they also sell well to the 'historical' players for their quasi-historical 'adventures / skirmishes' games, think of the ongoing vendetta between Lady Pettygree and Milady de Winter so pleasantly reported on Jim Purky's and Bill Protz' blogs.
For such adventures games it would be extremely precious to have the very same character on foot and mounted. Probably not requiring investment as sculpting entirely new miniatures? To propose a 'blister' of the same character on foot and horse, as was done for 'dungeon adventurers', would be a successful alternate selling proposition.
A minor regret, too bad the 'lady riding sidesaddle' in the more 'generic' pose (and thus the more useful of the pair) wears a slouched hat. I know there are a few
contemporary portraits with such
(but none afaik of a riding woman) and of course Keira Knightley in 'The Duchess' sports one.
But all the 18th C. paintings of 'ladies in riding habit' I found on the web show a tricorne, except one (from a later date) with a jockey cap.
A tricorne would be far more typical, and is far more 'period specific', immediately 'tagging' a figurine "18th C."".
"Hats varied by era; tricorns were worn by English/American women only in the first half of the 18th century (but continued to be worn by Continental women — see the portrait of Marie Antoinette from 1771), followed by jockey caps in the 1760s, high crowned hats in the 1770s-80s, and tall, cyclindrical hats in the 1790s."
http://demodecouture.com/2011/02/18th-century-riding-habitses/
As you can see from the portraits there are more examples of widebrimed hats than tricornes during the 1760's
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