Tuesday 31 January 2012

Medieval Bombard "Harlequin"

The titel is the English for this guns name. It´s original  name in French  is "Hellequin" (Arlequin), a black-faced emissary of the devil, who chases the souls of the dammned to hell.
The fact that the gun sends it´s enemies to thier doom and it´s muzzle is black is the reason for the French gunners  painting the carriage as it is and it´s "petname" name "Arlequin". The whole of the IVth cent French ordnance was nicknamed the Mesnée d'Hellequin, the household of hellequin, whose traditional colours are black and red, but the yellow and red colour scheme looked better.

I know the Flag is a (speculative) company flag of the French Ordnance but it looked a lot more colourfull than the individual unit flags.
Phew!!!! I almost believed my made up  historical background bumpf myself ! :-D
Real fact of the matter is..I saw this one...I liked the colour scheme so much..I had to have one ;-D

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Hello to Jose  from Muñequitos de goma blog . An amazing collection of largescale "toy soldiers"

23 comments:

  1. Like the carriage! Like the crew! The flag? Yup, like that one too!

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  2. It's a colourful devil, damn good work....

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  3. You really can't go wrong with multi-coloured artillery!

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  4. waw!!! Arlequin bombard!! incredible but very nice to see!!
    I love it!

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  5. Wonderful!!!!
    Regards
    derFigurenschieber

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  6. That certainly a colourful gun!!

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  7. Absolutely tremendous! Your 'made up' history was pretty good too; had me convinced.

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  8. If I were to be escorted to the underworld, that gun wouldn't be a bad tour guide.

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  9. C'est superbe, merci pour l'idée.

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  10. Very nice "Hellish" paint scheme. Also, the fictional background is perfect!

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  11. Striking colour scheme, love it

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  12. If you're going to be blown to hell, it might as well be a stunningly colorful bombard that does the trick. I love the color scheme!

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  13. That´s a really nice piece of artillery. Great job Paul.

    V.

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  14. A colorfule work, just perfect, a real Paul work this is!

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  15. Lovely work. A great addition to the table top.

    Cheers
    Will

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  16. Okay friend Paul, this is the scale model! Now I would like to see the real one, I presume is somewhere in your garden!

    Very colorfull model, and based with a nice crew!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.com/

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  17. How did you make it? it looks epic!

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    1. It is from the Redbox hussites set. The painting of it was a real test..took a long time and cost s lot of patience. :-D
      Cheers
      apul

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