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Re: First Friday of February (2021)

sansovino
Thanks a lot.
The trumpeter is very nice, but it´s a pity, that the flag and pole of the flagbearer seems me quite oversized for cavalry.
I think the standard here is only very slightly on the large side, especially if these are French Line cavalry (as I hope this set will prove to be).

Rene Chartrand in his Osprey Men at Arms book 'Louis XIV's Army' (MAA 203) notes that cavalry flags were square and 100-105cm broad and long. The flag on this fine Strelets model is almost at that dimension.

The lance is certainly robust and would do equally well in the hands of a late medieval knight, but is also correct for cavalry of the period. Chartrand records that the regulation length for the lance/pole was 315cm.

Dragoon guidons were somewhat smaller.

I cannot wait to see more of this set of cavalrymen!

Re: First Friday of February (2021)

Fabulous! Thank you.

Re: First Friday of February (2021)

great looking riders, so when will we be seeing release of all the lovely WSS cavalry sets and proposed gunners in UK, needed urgently as running out of figures to paint for my favourite period !!!
congrats to sculptors
you all stay safe out there
cheers Old John

Re: First Friday of February (2021)

Really goods. Have a nice weekend Strelets and you all friends.

Re: First Friday of February (2021)

Dear Strelets,

You have delivered another Friday delight with two more fine looking masters for your early 18th century range.

Thank you, James

Riderless horses - where are the stirrups?

Sorry, but I have to come back to that WSS dragoon horse holder picture:.

http://pub33.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=2833323740&frmid=6&msgid=1080295&cmd=show

Where are the horses' stirrups? I can't see them. You won't forget them, will you? (Even Zvezda did - http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1328 - the last horse, meant to go with the dismounted firing dragoon ... :smirk: )

The attachment of the breast collar to the saddle girths looks a bit strange to me as well. Just in case, Garsault's "Le Nouveau Parfait Maréchal" may help. It was published a little later than our period (1741) but overall is valid for the WSS era as well.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_nouveau_parfait_mar%C3%A9chal,_ou,_La_connoissance_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_et_universelle_du_cheval_BHL21294208.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_nouveau_parfait_mar%C3%A9chal,_ou,_La_connoissance_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_et_universelle_du_cheval_BHL21294212.jpg

Re: Riderless horses - where are the stirrups?

Handlewithcare
Sorry, but I have to come back to that WSS dragoon horse holder picture:.

http://pub33.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=2833323740&frmid=6&msgid=1080295&cmd=show

Where are the horses' stirrups? I can't see them. You won't forget them, will you?
Perhaps the horses are from the Mounted Dragoons set? In which case the stirrups are moulded onto the riders feet as usual.

The WSS doesn't interest me at present but I bought the British cavalry set; I'm hoping to get some senior officers for the 45 out of them.

Congratulations Strelets on a very fine set, the figures look fabulous, but I suspect two of them are very shady characters; they look like the type that might turn to highway robbery.

Re: Riderless horses - where are the stirrups?

To expand on my previous comment, I wonder if there will be any horses in the Dismounted Dragoons set or if it will just contain dismounted Dragoons and the intention is to share horses with the mounted set (hence the missing stirrups).

If the dismounted set is to contain horses then how many? Horses take up a lot of sprue space. A full complement of horses might be good for wargamers but would mean a small set of figures. A couple of horses with the horse holder might be fine for dioramists but leave the gamers short. If the intention is to share the horses between the mounted and dismounted sets there is the question of how to make it work with based horses. Mounted infantry type sets pose quite a dilemma for manufacturers.

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