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Post by sergeantmajormarkoff on Mar 12, 2022 6:32:30 GMT -9
Okay, this is my bad, repeat MY BAD, not Cowboyleland's. I asked him to do these guys as mirror images, rather than front and back, as that is the way all my armies are done. These are conversions of Patrick Crusiau's ACW figures. I have wanted Boers for a long time, and I think these look really good. The officers are a little fanciful, but I wanted them for my fantasy version of the Colonial era, as well as historicals. Trouble is, there are no science fiction, steam fiction, or fantasy stories about Boers that I know of. So we had to improvise. The result was the Skarlaken Boar Vrystat (Scarlet Boar Free State). Cowboyleland designed the flag as well as converted the figures. He looked up the flag of the Orange Free State on the web, decided it looked odd, and that adding a red boar to it wouldn't make it any more odd. The history? Seems that, though the Boers are generally pious members of the Dutch Reformed Church, well, in the last years of the Second Boer War, a desperate splinter group of them got hold of a book by Ludwig Prynn (himself Dutch, but none too pious). They performed some experiments on some of the local bush pigs, and quickly had enough magical support to fight the British with their mechanical soldiers at least to a draw. Victoria and Disraeli could put a stop to this with their aether fliers, perhaps, but that might bring in a lot more negative attention from the foreign press than is already going on, and... well... we'll see what happens. Figures by Patrick Crusiau, conversions and flag design by Cowboyleland. General insanity by me.
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 15, 2022 5:48:10 GMT -9
"general insanity by me." I like your kind of crazy.
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