Plastic Showcase No Name Knights, Mounted Colonial Andrey Buslov shares some photos of new mounted knights. Next I have a mounted colonial I am not famaliar with.
Plastic Showcase No Name Knights, Mounted Colonial No Name Name
Andrey sent us photos of two new No Name mounted knights.
The mounted knights are with crested helmets. There are two poses. First pose is mounted with sword. The other mounted is with lance.
Here we have a closeup of the helmet. Notice the detail.
Andrey also did comparsion photos with the new mounted knight figures. I am sure andrey will have these figures for sale.
Plastic Showcase No Name Knights, Mounted Colonial Colonial Figure
At the Dave Hart show this past week I got the mounted colonial shown above. The horse is from Toy Soldiers of San Diego. On the otherhand I am not famaliar with colonial figure. do you know who it is?
Plastic Showcase No Name Knights, Mounted Colonial Some More Favorite Figures
The Cherilea mounted knight is one of our favorite figures. Laurie and I got it at hackensack. At the time we did not known who made him. We later discover it was by Cherilea. It is based on lead figure. It is called the Baronial knight. Since we got this figure others have turned up mostly in France. The lead version has a helmet. Not one of the plastic figures that has turned up with a helmet. Some feel it might have been sold as Joan of Arc. We have no information to verify this.
This figure I got with some other figures at MFCA. John Reichl and I had set up at the show. On the second day I was walking by a stand and spotted the figures. At first I thought it was a conversion. When I got home I found they were made in Itay. I have forgotten the company. ( There is just too much information to remember. ) The figure fits into my story line I have been working on.
The mounted colonial officer looks like the CTS mounted officer who goes with the CTS Rev. War Hessian set. CTS made it’s Hessian sets in red, brown, and blue.
The No-Name figures are indeed well-detailed, well-sculpted, and in a good, high-quality soft plastic.
The only thing they do wrong, in my opinion (and which is reflected in this new mounted knight pose, as well as in their earlier Roman poses) is that they have all their mounted figures who are carrying a lance or spear grasping the pointed lance or spear from the very rear of the shaft, rather than the middle (or close to the middle). They don’t have the lance shaft extending back far enough. Nobody really carries a spear or lance by holding on to it on the last 6 inches. You wouldn’t have any control that way. No-Name needs to extend the rear portion of the spear a little further back. The best way to do this is to make the mounted figure a ring-hand, so the spear can be slid further in so the rider is grasping it in a more balanced fashion.
For jousting knights the lances are in the correct position. You want the pointed end as far forward as possible for maximum reach to hit your opponent first.
Wrong. Dead Wrong.
TD, if you will compare the spear of the NN knight with the lance of the Cherelia knight, and then carefully re-read my original post, and then carefully re-read Erwin’s post, and then try to think very, very hard about it, perhaps a light will go on for you, and you will then realize how silly you are being.
No sure if you referring to the NN brands but no one could hold a even cardboard pole and try knock opposite with good results if using as that as the impact is too strong ,the jousting ones were different designed and lighter still not used as that .
The lance was the main weapon used in medieval jousting contests however they were not the same jousting sticks used in battle, especially in later medieval jousting contests. The Lance or Jousting stick used in joust matches were designed to minimise the risk of injury during a jousting contest. Jousting lances or sticks were made out of wood that was soft and they were hollow, while the ends were blunt.(contrary to real battle lances more harder and light m but flexible resistance material with sharp end tips .).
There were also some instances when the ends were covered with a ball like object to lessen the impact.The lance still made a massive impact in a jousting competition but it could not penetrate the armour of the knight as there was no metal point at the end, this made jousting much safer than real combat although many jousting sticks were broken in the process and lethal accidents happen. If the tournament battle went to ground the knight would used close combat weapons such as a sword, flail or poleaxe, (these weapons were also adapted to make them safer) Not as same used in battle. The safety aspect of jousting was further improved as time went by as more tournaments rules were introduced and armour was improved over the years.
At jousting the impact strength is base in you entire body making the balance and full force at once along speed and point you hit .The stronger to hold on seat is the winner .Generally 4 charge with only 3 spears per round were allowed and if decided by judge sponsor a second round was permit .Losing spears and shield were loosing points for knight in the game.
In my case most lances could be fix move back easy w minor touch -job in the figures.
Some looks very thick too in my view compared to hand grip .
my thoughts.
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Please refer to the jousting Cherilea knight pictured above and you may understand my earlier post?
TD.Yes of courses that pose is correct but by type spike sharp end spear is definitely not joust ing but real combat. The pose appear to be at clash impact moment agaist alike pose mounted foe. Also riders use the rising animal in two legs to reach x high point of oponent.The pose of horse as standart depiction of medieval time used in books, arts else…use as well to depict horses along and unicorns too.
Well done pose used in many figures toys around too.
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Yes the colonial is the CTS mounted Hessian officer pose and a non CTS horse of course.
Another issue w mounted poses on NN are the too passive pose of horses in most.
There is a new NN (No name)renaissance mounted nice pose made that match with conquistadors sets from Reamsa and Amex mounted poses perfect too. Conquistadors used horses with great results as at the beginning was very scare beast to deal by Indians and specially if heavy armored as well rider. Only Reamsa and AMEX brand had done mounted Conquistadors
I got it right recently and loved.
The spear /lance issue as Don mentioned is true .Most these figures are again extracted direct from metal cast already made poses from another maker as stated many times here already and varied a bit to make then looks more combative ,apparently in process the weapons are not correct positioned. I had fix mine with minor work easy any ways .
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TD, if you will carefully compare the photo of how the NN knight is carrying his spear, and then compare it to the photo of the Cherelia knight, and then carefully re-read my original post on the subject, and then carefully re-read Erwin’s post, and then try thinking about it very, very, hard, perhaps a light will go on, and you will then realize how silly you are being.
The Cherilea mounted knight apparently is common from France and Belgium than UK.For some reason i got two in a lot long ago ,while one horse was light damaged others were nice looking .I had seen more since and from France always sales very low versus UK very high.Funny fact.
I agree figure is nice …
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At the time we got the Cherilea knight we got it in the states, whic surprises the English.
Nice figures I like all of them, I especially like the standing figure. I haven’t seen him before but he looks like a warrior that could fit many Ancient eras and countrys.
Hi Darren
I also collect & convert knights. Please have Paul give you my email address so we can set up a conversation.
thanks
Michael
Yeah sure thing Michael i would like that and i will be in touch shortly.