As stated in the introduction to the blog, this collection is, initially at least, going to be based around the excellent 3 Musketeers figures produced by King & Country. These figures come prepainted to quite a decent standard and are nominally in the 1/30 (or 60mm scale). In reality they are a bit bigger than that, more around 65mm scale, which only adds to the overall appearance.
Here we have the titular characters (Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan) witnessing a duel between a fellow musketeer and one of the Cardinal's red guards, under the watchful eye of King Louis himself (using an ECW King Charles as a stand-in), Cardinal Richelieu and his right hand the Count of Rochefort. Another Red Guard stands by, nervously fidgetting with his musket as the duel does not seem to be going well.
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| "Musketeer dog!" |
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| "I'd retort, but it's enough insult to be a red guard!" |
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| "... ok, I've got nothing" |
Since the range doesn't have too many proper musketeer figures so far, I will be appropriating several of the ECW figures to take on the role of contemporary (to the musketeers) English. So far I've managed to acquire the following characters: a set of dueling cavaliers, a pointing artillery officer with sword, a lovely sergeant-at-arms with halberd and sword and a very characterful preacher with holy book and sword behind his back. The range also has a Witchfinder general, so I'm planning to make a Witchfinder faction, with the preacher as his second in command.
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| "Parlimant traitor!" - "Royalist pig!" |
Here we have them all together (so far), with the King figure temporarily resuming his guise as King Charles for a duel between the chosen champions of France and England:
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| "For the honour of France!" - "For England!" |
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| "En garde!" |
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| "So... are we going to move or what?" |
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