Ideas for baggage train vignettes

[FierceKitty]

Just off the wall, I fancy these ones:
*   Minoan athletes vaulting over charging bulls; suitably half-clad spectators
*   sarcophagus carver, or group of NKE morticians laying a mummy to rest
*   NKE dancers and musicians; diners watching the show
*   Assyrian queen in litter, with attendants
*   Scythian burial tumulus
*   Persian traitor being executed by "the boats"
*   ex-Socrates, with weeping disciples
*   Alexander killing Cleitus
*   Punic deity and firepit, with offering
*   Roman decimation
*   Sarmatian damsel proudly showing trophy to in-laws-to-be
*   shieldmaiden returning to camp with treasure chest under one arm, pretty boy over opposite shoulder
*   William the Bastard eating sand
*   laundry on line, washtub to one side
*   Timur playing chess
*   French irregulars plundering Henry V's baggage
*   Byzantine clergy and commanders kneeling at altar with icon
*   Michelangelo halfway through David
*   Landsknechts playing cards on drumhead
*   Mexican gladitorial sacrifice
*   Chinese gong; large man bashing it
*   Turkish slave market
*   Mamluk Arabian Nights harem
*   Cossacks writing insulting letter to Sultan
*   the incident behind the Mannequin Pis in Brussels
*   Swedish/NMA clergyman preaching to bare-headed soldiers
*   Cavalier roaring boy at table, bottle in hand, wench on knee
*   18th-century harpsichordist and flautist
*   18th-century malefactor running the gauntlet
*   18th-century duelists  (guess what my favourite movie is?)
*   Victorian civilians picnicking (also suit Russian ladies watching the battle of the Alma)

   Ideas?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Think you hit most of them there !

[paulr]

...
*  laundry on line, washtub to one side
...
*  Victorian civilians picnicking (also suit Russian ladies watching the battle of the Alma)
...

I've missed the point of the laundry

Picnickers could also be watching 1^st Bull Run, fleeing carriages optional

[FierceKitty]

Washerwomen are very often mentioned in camps.

[FierceKitty]

Oh, yes, Mother Courage and the Brechtian ensemble.
*   malefactor in stocks, possibly being teased by ragged kids

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I'm up for those

[Heedless Horseman]

Portable Guillotine

Or:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIflxDqX7Tg

[Westmarcher]

Some of you really need to see a shrink .....  

  

[paulr]

Crucifixion scene

Westmarcher may be right

[FierceKitty]

Our hobby is reenacting mass murder! We all need straightjackets.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But I've got a certificate to prove my sanity

[Raider4]

But I've got a certificate to prove my sanity

"I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested" (Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory).

[John Cook]

Baggage Train.  Military.  n.  A train of vehicles, used to carry baggage, especially following an army.

Some components of a baggage train, the ammunition waggons, ration waggons, pontoon waggons, engineer waggons, mobile forges etc would be useful first.

[FierceKitty]

Awww, you're no fun any more.

[Gwydion]

Our hobby is reenacting mass murder! We all need straightjackets.

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human.
Warfare generally moves the act of killing outside normal criminal law considerations (not always) and so please undo these straightjackets at once!

(mass killing; probably - no mens rea of the crime of murder however )

[FierceKitty]

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human.
Warfare generally moves the act of killing outside normal criminal law considerations (not always) and so please undo these straightjackets at once!

(mass killing; probably - no mens rea of the crime of murder however )

I'm sure that's a great comfort to the victims. 

[GrumpyOldMan]

I've been reading some of the replies and I'm shocked and appalled.... - do winners not impale anybody any more??

My ancestors would shake their heads, tutt-tutt and slowly walk away (if they could)....  

[Heedless Horseman]

Any 'Looting' of Baggage train would make for a good vignette. Medieval, ECW, Naps...esp. Peninsula Brits! Zulus. Or ACW..."Hey! This wagon's got Boots! New Boots!" 

Back to the gruesome, and 'scavengers' / 'Corpse Looters/Tooth Pullers'. Priest with piled Dead. Victorious Warriors with Heads.. not new concept... but a Bulldozer and mass grave might be.   

War IS Utterly Horrible. Smart uniforms and Heroism don't last long... except in memorium.
In the lyrics of 'White Mansions', (An ACW LP from youth):
"Heroes look Bad... when all they had... has been eaten by the worms and the rats".

But the Game goes on!   

[John Cook]

I was wondering how many dozens of each vignette people were thinking of buying, were any of them to be produced?  One-off sales of each would, I think, not be a viable commercial proposition.  I seem to remember Leon explained the commercial viability of moulds some time ago.  I would think that all these were non-starters. 

[Ithoriel]

I was wondering how many dozens of each vignette people were thinking of buying, were any of them to be produced?  One-off sales of each would, I think, not be a viable commercial proposition.  I seem to remember Leon explained the commercial viability of moulds some time ago.  I would think that all these were non-starters. 

Who needs Pendraken to mould them? Have we really lost the will to convert the things that are made into the things that we want?

Excuse me, I need to go find some Plasticine and banana oil.