Dark ages civvies

[FierceKitty]

Is the second mounted figure suitable for WotR Queen Margaret?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Which 2nd figure ?

[Shedman]

If she is riding side-saddle then yes

This is her in 15mm from  https://shop.ancient-modern.co.uk/worc02-margaret-of-anjou-2936-p.asp

[FierceKitty]

That's the general idea. There are two mounted dark ages civilians; I can't tell if the female one would transplant well half a millennium into the future.

[Leon]

She's not side saddle I'm afraid.

[Techno II]

That's a 15mm figure ?

Nice paint job....BUT....

Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

I think it was used just to illustrate what Queen Margaret should look like and then compare with the 10mm figure. From my reading of the Wars of the Roses she was a bit rough and ready compared to her more effete husband, so I think she could get away with not being sidesaddle.

[FierceKitty]

I think it was used just to illustrate what Queen Margaret should look like and then compare with the 10mm figure. From my reading of the Wars of the Roses she was a bit rough and ready compared to her more effete husband, so I think she could get away with not being sidesaddle.

I'm wondering about improvising a wimple, actually.

Though she could be holding Richard Plantagenet's head as well....

[DecemDave]

I think it was used just to illustrate what Queen Margaret should look like and then compare with the 10mm figure. From my reading of the Wars of the Roses she was a bit rough and ready compared to her more effete husband, so I think she could get away with not being sidesaddle.

Agree:   "This woman excelled all other, as well in beauty and favour, as in wit and policy, and was of stomach and courage, more like to a man, than a woman."  says Wikipedia  so it must be true.

[FierceKitty]

Another way of putting it:

She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,
Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!
How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,
Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging,
Made impudent with use of evil deeds,
I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.
To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,
Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,
Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;
But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:
'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;
The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at:
'Tis government that makes them seem divine;
The want thereof makes thee abominable:
Thou art as opposite to every good
As the Antipodes are unto us,
Or as the south to the septentrion.
O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!

[DecemDave]

Yes trolling was so much more inventive then than its social media equivalent today.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No libel laws helped....

[FierceKitty]

Well, he gets his head cut off about five minutes later.

[Leman]

There is an assumption here that we are all well read up on Shakespeare, but I'm afraid that in this instance I am with Blackadder! So whose head was it?

[FierceKitty]

Richard of York, after the battle of Wakefield.