Caparison Comparison

[Tiermann]

Hello, this is a development out of the Winterhaven Tourney. There is some confusion when referring to caparisoned knights.
I am hoping this chart will help provide a reference point. I have numbered each in basically chronological order and given a short description. The description includes the type of caparison - pleated, scalloped, slashed, or the newest plate. It also includes a color or device indication depending on what stands out. I am missing the color knight, I hadn't realized until today that it was out there, so now I will try to search one out. There are some towards the end that I do not have because they are not yet available here, or I am waiting for the latest 2 in this market to go on sale in October. If you know of any I have missed please let me know. This is referring only to caparison - the cloth types and not to barding - the leather strapping types.

[Justindo]

Very nice work, Tim!

[Gis]

Thank you very much for your work Tim! This is just AWESOME. You have such a great collection! I am missing 9 out of the 31 still.

I will start a better announcement thread soon!

We also already know what number 32 will be from this post! Maybe you can already add it!

[flatcat]

 

Great work, Tim

Damo

[Wolf Knight]

Tim this is great work!!! Congratulations and thank you for this reference guide!!!

[Richard]

Tim, you have no doubt made a lot of Playmobil Medieval theme collectors very happy with your wonderful charts.

You've done a marvelous job of displaying all of Playmobil's very colorful knights.

And, for those Games Workshop fans of Bretonnia you have shown them what Playmobil can offer!

Thank you very much!

All the best,
Richard

[WarriorOfToys]

WOW! That is great Tim,
Thank you so much!
As Richard said,
You have certainly made us Medieval fans happy.

[WarriorOfToys]

I just noticed, the Checkered one, number 7,
Does not actually go with that shield.
It goes with the Checkered Shield.

[Tiermann]

I remembered Christopher 2 last night in bed. I will add him tonight. You are right WoT, I will get that adjusted and do a new picture. There are probably other errors too. I have mixed things about in the past and am not sure I got them all back as they started. I will fix anything that gets mentioned. It's mainly the horse coats I am looking at here. As you just mentioned number 7 can go with it's original shield, or it can be used with the one I show in this picture - creating 2 possible joust competitors with just one set of horse gear.
I know for certain that the knight on #17 is wrong - for some weird reason that one came with gold body armour and a silver helmet. I hated that so switched out the helmet for a correct colored one. I refuse to change it back 

I will get 24 and 25 in October when they go on sale - only a week and a half away! The others wont be out here for a year. If anyone has #3 the old color one that's now at the top of my wants list. I'm missing the yellow feather for the horse helmet in #2 as well if anyone should have one.

[playmofire]

Wonderful picture summary, Tim.  When I see them all like that I feel strongly driven to start collecting knights!  They remind me that many years ago I had a strong interest in heraldry.