I left a comment in the thread of September 11 titled Hints, which might not be seen, so will comment here.

The new masters shown in that thread and in Mike's 70th Birthday thread are definitely not North American First Nations figures.

Two can be seen here. One is a mounted Cantiniere/Vivandiere, and the other is a mounted artist/scientist attached to Napoleon's Egyptian expedition.


https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/French-School/1027075/Campaign-of-Egypt-(1798-1801):-the-French-army-in-Egypt-under-Napoleon-Bonaparte.html

The other 2 Arabic looking chaps may be some of the Egyptian/Syrian/Mamaluke locals?

I'm certainly looking forward to these.

Cheers
Danny

Nice detective work Danny!

It'd be wonderful if you are correct. The figures are interesting, beautifully sculpted and enticing regardless!


Best wishes, James

Thanks James

At first I thought the gentleman with the top hat would make an excellent Pierre Ducos from the Sharpe novels, or one of Wellesly's special agent explorers in Spain, or perhaps Pierre Bezhukov from War and Peace.

The figure who I believe to be a Cantiniere with the braided Dolman i thought would make a cracking representation of one of Massena's mistresses. Wouldn't that make for an interesting command group?

She looked reminiscent of the French hussars sculpts that Strelets provided for the Egyptian campaign (and still sit in my cupboard of painting shame awaiting some colour) which is what led me to find the painting in the link above.

I'm not sure who the mean looking fella with the crossed arms and shotgun (blunderbuss?) is, and apart from looking like Teal'c from Stargate, I'm sure he will find a nice spot somewhere in my collection.

Cheers
Danny

They are beaut ideas Danny!

I too like to make vignettes as command stands, so these figures will be great for such purposes, or as special markers or 'characters' within a unit.

It'd be really fabulous if they are 'extras' for the Egyptian campaign and include scientists who accompanied the 'expedition' and lead to the birth of Egyptology! (The fella with the umbrella and top hat could be one, as you noted. A few with instruments would be beaut too.)

Best wishes, James

p.s. It seems that 'while the cat's away...' the spammers have gone ballistic and our little conversation will be lost in a mire of useless, misleading or dangerous rubbish...!!!

I think you may have hit the nail on the head Danny. My only questions remain with the shot gun fellow as you mentioned. He looks a bit too bundled up for Egypt, and then I do think some of the initial mounted sculpts teased were Natives. My mistake was assuming it all had to be one set

Hi Asher

Yes the crossed arms guy does look a bit too rugged up for the desert (in the day at least) and may belong with the other set(s) of foot miliia or mounted First Nations people that were previewed previously.

A 'Black Seminole' perhaps?

The intrigue and anticipation continues !

Cheers
Danny