As I stated the Colonel of the Regt is to be the McNab of McNab and modelled upon an old wargaming flatmate.. The figure is a lightly converted Front Rank Bonnie Prince Charlie on a Willie horse. (my flatmate was a bit of a shorta**e. The shock of hair and purple suiting are also historically correct.)
But my question is this: if you look closely at the edge of his jacket and the cuffs you can see that it is edged with a fringe. Rather like Davy Crockett's buckskins. I am leaning toward painting this as white fur but I wonder if anyone is familiar with this figure or the source it was modelled from and can give me any better advice. I am not convinced by the idea of gilt fringe as I have never seen it portrayed in this way and it would surely be horribly uncomfortable as a cuff edging.
As I stated the Colonel of the Regt is to be the McNab of McNab and modelled upon an old wargaming flatmate.. The figure is a lightly converted Front Rank Bonnie Prince Charlie on a Willie horse. (my flatmate was a bit of a shorta**e. The shock of hair and purple suiting are also historically correct.)
But my question is this: if you look closely at the edge of his jacket and the cuffs you can see that it is edged with a fringe. Rather like Davy Crockett's buckskins. I am leaning toward painting this as white fur but I wonder if anyone is familiar with this figure or the source it was modelled from and can give me any better advice. I am not convinced by the idea of gilt fringe as I have never seen it portrayed in this way and it would surely be horribly uncomfortable as a cuff edging. 
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John,
beautifully done Highlanders; I am going to get my 25mm British Napoleonic Scots out and try to finish them...
An excellent book for anyone interested in the politics and finances of a smaller German state in the 18th Century, and the Reichsarmee, is:
Peter H. Wilson, "War, State and Society in Wuerrtemberg 1677-1793"
(Cambridge University Press 1995).
It is especially interesting as the author did extensive research in obscure German sources, also because Wuerrtemberg had its own standing army as well as having to contribute troops to the Reichsarmee.
In response to your recent blog entry "The Mystery of the Fourth Wargamer...", after studying the picture I have come to the conclusion that the man in the centre "chanting from a book" is probably intending to make the figures move of their own volition...
This brings me to another matter involving the Forces of Darkness, namely the way in which perfectly normal, rational people become possessed by malignant spirits (lets call them entities) when they go near a wargames table. You have probably seen this yourself- faces contorted with fury over some minor point not dealt with by the rules, etc. Although I have never seen anyone actually throw a table over, I have witnessed people packing up and storming out in the middle of a game... rules which seem to give particular scope for these entities include WRG 6th Edition Ancient Rules, and the Napoleonic rules written by a certain Mr Quarrie...
Further to your comments about Aleister Crowley in the same blog entry, I have come across the following in the book "Collision of Empires. Britain in Three World Wars 1793-1945", by A.D.Harvey (incidentally a great read for anyone interested in the British war effort in these wars; it also has a great deal of comment and detail about Britain`s allies and enemies): In 1907 J.F.C. Fuller, later a military theorist, historian and Major-General, published his first book- "The Star of the West: A Critical Essay on the Works of Aleister Crowley". This was originally the winning entry in a competition for a study of the works of Crowley with a prize of £100, set up by Crowley; it was the only entry, and Crowley never paid the £100. Fuller later went on to write various pieces for Crowley`s magazine "The Equinox". Harvey then goes on:
"Fuller`s instinctive leaning towards hocus-pocus also appears in his writings on military tactics, even a quarter of a century after his final break with Aleister Crowley: "It [the tank] is a two-dimensional weapon when compared to infantry, which is a one-dimensional arm; that is, it moves in lines and fights in lines. Whilst the old tactical form of war was linear, the new is based on plane surfaces (areas) and is developed in cubic spaces - three-dimensional warfare"."
Several questions arise from the above:
Did Fuller, who had an interest in the occult, ever wargame with Samuel MacGregor Mathers, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn? If so, in how many dimensions?
If we set up an 18th Century wargame with linear formations and tactics on a plane surface, would it then be three-dimensional? What might this look like?
Why are some people more prone than others to possession when near a wargames table?
Martin T.
Hi John,
I'd go with the white fur. It would give a dash of brightness and definition to the figure.
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