UN & 8th Army Renaissance

 Below left is a repainted HK copy of Lone Star officer in beret, although, at this angle it looks like a turban. I forgot to paint the belt buckle. UN light blue headgear was one of the Lone Star varieties, so I decided to paint this figure that way. The kneeling bazooka man I painted a year or so ago.

  Renaissance 8th Army, yes, you read that right! Actually, as intimated in my earlier post, they are an experiment based on Chesterton's story, 'The Napoleon of Nottinghill'. The interpretation of the appearance of the various militias is fairly open, except to emphasize the medieval or Renaissance clothing and weapons, even though set in 1984. One faction was said to wear purple, but I have varied the colors to allow the Renaissance multi-colored style. The firearms could be anything from matchlocks to breach loaders. I painted these as 19th century rifles.

   It seems strange to me that medieval, ancient or Renaiisance toy soldiers are seldom seen to carry water bottles, haversacks ad so on but I left the 8th Army ones on these. In any case, they are fantasy figures, which just shows that 'Fantasy' can cover a wide range of concepts and not just sword and sorcery. It is also a 'futuristic' projection from the Edwardian era but just not with the technological development.

 I might do some others with big floppy Renaissance hats or even, incongruous top hats. I'm thinking of giving some knights in plate armor revolvers! The general vibe is that some bored Edwardians have decid3d to revert to a few hundred years ago have raided some museums or had some impromptu sewing work done. 

  Other figures I am going to use are beefeaters and Cherilea English Civil War sergeants with halberds.

My assumption is the majority of participants have edged weapons but that some would get hold of firearms.

  This wargame scenario I have been thinking of for some time, and it might be sometime more before I put it into practice. I am taking my time assembling figures as I want to make some more fanciful conversions.

  I figure to play the Battle of Notting Hill a few times and then these figures will be somehow incorporated in my campaign fantasy armies.