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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Firelocks to Maxims (1680 - 1900) => Topic started by: Shecky on 15 September 2012, 07:55:51 PM

Title: FPW French Spahis
Post by: Shecky on 15 September 2012, 07:55:51 PM
I may have mixed up some figures...

Are the FPW French Spahis dressed as Arabs (turban and cape) with one guy with a lance?  I have some figures dressed as such already primed and ready to paint but I put them I found them in my "to do later" pile so I may have mixed them up with TYW figures.

Any help?

Thanks,
Tom
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: Jim Ando on 18 September 2012, 01:49:08 PM
Hi

They are dressed as arabs and one has a standard .

Jim
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: Shecky on 18 September 2012, 02:01:00 PM
Thanks. I did a number of Google image searches and finally found one of them dressed in the Arab garb from that period.
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: FierceKitty on 18 September 2012, 11:28:18 PM
Pappenheimers and Chasseurs d'Afrique attacking each other? You're in danger of starting another of these absurd fantasy offshoots!
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: Bernie on 19 September 2012, 06:39:00 AM
http://s1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc461/BernardGanley/Someone%20Has%20Blundered%20Crimean%20War%20in%2010mm/Battle%20of%20the%20Alma%20Wargame/?action=view&current=10Frenchcavalryreserve.jpg

Pics of Spahis - at the back Chasseurs d'Afrique. As you can see very colourful troopers
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: Shecky on 20 September 2012, 03:56:10 AM
Oops. Looks like I'm painting the wrong things for the Spahis.  :-[

What I have are similar but the cape isnt as flowing, the musket is more toward the right knee and there is no trumpeter or standard bearer (just a guy with a lance). They're close enough to pass as Spahis but that just means I've misplaced the TRUE Spahis figures.

On a happier note, based on your photograph I at least have the correct figures for the Chasseurs d'Afrique!  :D
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: Shecky on 20 September 2012, 04:08:21 AM
Yep, it's the Croat Arquebusier I have and not the Spahis.

http://warmaster-acolytes.mforos.com/1854818/9155978-pen-yw4-mounted-croat-arquebusier-30-year-war/

where did I put those guys? :-\
Title: Re: FPW French Spahis
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 September 2012, 05:11:34 AM
Quote from: Shecky on 20 September 2012, 04:08:21 AM
Yep, it's the Croat Arquebusier I have and not the Spahis.

http://warmaster-acolytes.mforos.com/1854818/9155978-pen-yw4-mounted-croat-arquebusier-30-year-war/

where did I put those guys? :-\
Does everyone know the derivation of our cravat, worn around the neck? Via Crabat, a Croat, one of the people who brought them west.