Thursday, 21 May 2026

Landsknecht by Rose Models

 A final post on finds from the London show, a couple of modern white metal collectors figures rescued from a junk box:

On the left a Landsknecht by Rose Models, a matchlock in one hand and length of match in the other hand.  A great figure but not a very useful pose, I've been looking out for one of these a while, the plan being to make a silicon mould of the head and copy it for use in conversions.  We'll see.

On the right is a Jacobite Highland officer which looks a lot like an illustration from the Osprey book, so it could be made by New Hope Design but I need to check.  Both are nice crisp castings, I plan to mount them on MDF bases and add them to existing projects.

The modern phenomenon that is predictive text never ceases circumvent and undermine me, on typing matchlock I find I have been translated as MacBook and my attempt at correction insists I mean MacBollock.  Heaven preserve us!

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