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Irish Militia
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:16 pm
by Adam Hayes
I got some painted Reiver figures cheap recently and rebased and with new flags they will do me as anonymous Irish regiments.
http://www.adamhayes.co.uk/WargWarLOA01 ... ejac01.jpg
Completely invented flags, feasible though?
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:17 pm
by Heneborn
Those are really nice!
The flags seems to be appropriate enough
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:11 pm
by barr7430
Yes nice Adam
You'll have the anoraks diving for their reference books in panic... which flag is that, I've never seen it before, what is your source, etc etc
I have had two occasions of that happening, both which I found pretty funny...
1. My Sacred Heart flag on McKellikut's Irish Jacobites... Mark Allen was a little perturbed and asked me where I had found the info.. he'd written an article on Jacobite flags and that wasn't in it.... no wonder, I made it up
2. During a LoA Italian Wars demo game I had painted a Landsknecht unit with red and yellow horizontal bands on their pikes. A visitor to the show visited another table at the show also doing Italian Wars and told the hapless Demo-ers that their game was wrong as the pikes should be painted in stripes!!!
Made that up too, because I was bored and didn't like painting the Landsknechts
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:00 pm
by Alpha
Great work Adam! I'm doing some Reiver castings just now. Love the flag also.
David
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:30 pm
by obriendavid
Alpha wrote:Great work Adam! I'm doing some Reiver castings just now. David
Speaking of Reiver figures, are you coming to the club on Thurs? If so I'll bring the two packs along with me.
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:57 pm
by j1mwallace
I did the same with some Wars of the Roses figures. Entirely made up but look nice. Heraldry is the same. I like to tell the the anoraks I got it from tinternet.
It gives them something to do.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:53 am
by Alpha
All this makes me wonder how much stuff we take as historicaly correct was just made up
For me...if it looks right it is right!
Yes Dave at the club on Thursday.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:22 pm
by Adam Hayes
Thanks chaps! I enjoyed what research I did to find the right sort of symbols/heraldry might be used in the 17th C. I did have qualms about what history fundamentalists might say though...
I remain in a quandry about the Reiver figures. I like the style and animation but they just don't match up with all the Foundry, Dixon and Parkhurst miniatures I already have... A point of interest for Reiver fans is that the Marburian figures that were produced by Freikorps match them quite nicely. The guy between the two colour bearers is a Freikorps 28 now sold by
www.blazeaway.com.au.
