Thursday 6 June 2013

Mrs Miggins

 
Mrs Miggins is going for a stroll and meets Captain Shandy and his batman Corporal Trim .
 
 
Captain Shandy is a keen student of the feminine form !.
 
 
On the French side of the lines she meets Voltaire and his manservant 'Wee Jockie' !.
 
 
Voltaire too admires the female form ! . How can this woman cross the lines at will ? , is she a spy and if so for who !?. Mrs Miggins (apart from being a character from 'Blackadder') is the first of the 40mm Sash & Sabre FIW  civilians I've painted. (Thank the Lord for Google Translate ! - myself I can barely get by ordering chips and eggs and a beer !)
 
 
 

13 comments:

  1. Could it just be that both sides enjoy the horses willies from her pie shop?

    What a charming figure for your collection :)

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  2. Why ! I never thought of that !

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  3. Pies! Did someone say pies? Get Little Jack Horner on the security detail, he can thumb the pies for secret messages!!

    Hugh

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  4. Just reading the biography of Mother Ross at the moment, and she used to smuggle stuff under her skirts (usually bottles of Geneva), so best look there for any mischief.

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    1. Working on a 'Mother Ross' type figure at present

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  5. The S&S figs don't look out of place with the PA's; nicely painted charcater figure to add to you collection

    Allan

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    1. Must admit I was not sure they would match in their unpainted state as the are very rotund - but painted they do not look to bad at all.

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  6. Why, sir, would any self-respecting Englishman wish to be able to order chips,eggs and a beer in Frenchie? It would be an insult to those glorious lads who won the French and Indian Wars and thereby allowed us to be monolingual forever! Hooooray!!

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  7. She seems like a very... well-rounded... lady.

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  8. Nice work. I need to do one of those cartridge holder to plate bearer conversions for my army HQ. I wonder what it would take to get Prince August to do two or three molds of civilians in semiflat?

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    1. Prince August seem a bit strange with the moulds they bring out - not that impressed with their recent batch .

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