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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: Hadoque on April 28, 2011, 00:52:42
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Here a pic of some representatives from a French soldiers-platoon I customized.
These are situated before the French Revolution (in 1789), and therefore wear white uniforms and lightbrown trousers. The torsos come from German "Nordsee"-pirate captains.
The could also be used as Prussian soldiers or so...
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Wow, those look really great! I like the color combination.
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I love that torso! what set is it from???
Nice customs!!!
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I never looked into pre-revolution uniforms.... ???
Very intriguing, and excellent customs. They look marvelous whether they weren't accurate. :wow:
I look forward to seeing more...? :toot: ;)
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Great use of the ''Nordsee'' pirate torso!!!
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Nice work! They look very smart.
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Hadoque, I missed this thread for some reason. I love it! (is that torso a euro-clicky exclusive only? I wish I had some pre-1789 french soldiers too. I spent all night trying to reconcile the bluecoats with redpants and the fact that I am trying to blend them into my pre-1789 world (even though the bluecoats don't exist until much later).
I know the least about French uniforms of this period. All I know is the French wore all-white during the American Revolution as they fought alongside US Continental soldiers (whose bluecoat uniform, coincidentally, looks very much the same as the later post-1789 French uniforms).
Bravo my friend!
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Thanks :)
French pre-Revolution ones did wear mostly white uniforms, though on the pants there is discussion, also by "experts". Durin a holliday in Southern-France some years ago, I saw some uniforms displayed in a museum and that one had rather beige or very lightbrown trousers with a white coat.
So, i decided to give mine brownish pants, to make a colour-distinction with the torso and because I thought it just looks good.
For me, playmobil-soldiers don't have to look 100% historically correct. About 75% is enough ;D
is that torso a euro-clicky exclusive only?
Sadly yes; it came some years ago exclusively in Germany, as a pirate-captain with red bicorne and black legs/red boots and was a free gift in a German "McDonald's"-style chain of fishrestaurants ("Nordsee"-restaurants).
There were 3 such pirate-theme figures:
Besides the pirates' captain, there also was a Spanish soldier (conquistador) much looking like the captain from the lighthouse, but with a metal-coloured "1980's Nüremberg-Guard"-helmet.
And another one was a pirates' mate with red torso and darkyellow kneetrousers (like from the Roman cavalrist in the Camp/Tent-set, but without the print on the legs).
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does anyone know what number is tht exclusive? is it in playmodb? :love:
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... I am trying to blend them into my pre-1789 world (even though the bluecoats don't exist until much later)....
Not true! I have found paintings form the time period
(while researching the Austrian Succession)
Of French regiments in blue. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/The_Battle_of_Fontenoy_1745.png
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Not true! I have found paintings form the time period
(while researching the Austrian Succession)
Of French regiments in blue. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/The_Battle_of_Fontenoy_1745.png
cool! awesome find!
the hard part about researching details for historic uniforms is the designs differ from even one year to the next, and even within affiliations there are so many variations and styles. It's hard to make blanket generalizations about exactly how one nation's uniform looked at a particular place and time. Even within regiments they varied, and even between soldiers, each one may vary depending on how each soldier may have personalized their own uniforms. Not to mention this all happened centuries ago, so short of exact records (or talking to a highlander who is still alive to confirm it) it's difficult to know every detail for sure.
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I believe that variations in uniform between soldiers in a company, and even in regiments, became increasingly less common.
Especially by the Napoleonic period, but even before that, during the wars in the 1700s.
However, each regiment did wear a slightly different uniform then the other regiments.
They would have different cuffs and collars, sometimes they would go so far as to add something different to the uniform.
But these were intentional,
Whereas it was punishable if your uniform was not the same as your company's.
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I found more about the French army pre revolution.
http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/FRENCH_ARMY.htm#_under_Louis_XIV_the_Sun_King_uniforms
This link will bring you immediately to the section on uniforms.
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Beautiful klickies
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Thanks for the link, WoT! :)
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Excellent customs, Hadoque! I'd love to get my hands on just one of these Nordsee Pirate Captains. :prays: