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I wanted to use some of the Bavarian flags that David (Not by Appointment) produced, so I give you Marques de Valido Prince Bishop of Tiberia Bavarian grenadiers.
Bought these Spencer Smiths connoisseur figures last week already painted all I did was add shading, touch up the colours and rebase.




















Willz.

Not bad at all, mate. Nicknamed "The Genuflecters", perhaps?

Spanner wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:31 pm Not bad at all, mate. Nicknamed "The Genuflecters", perhaps?

Cheers for you kind comments, I was thinking the "holy light blues".

Willz.

Or the "Holy Terrors"?

Of course, as good Catholic grenadiers, they would have worn bearskins*, because if God hadn't wanted men to be grenadiers, He wouldn't have created bears.

(*This is actually "a thing" - grenadiers in the armies of Catholic countries [France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal - and Bavaria of course] all wore bearskin caps, those from Protestant nations wore mitres. Until Britain conquered Canada and made everyone see sense, of course..... )

This is actually "a thing" - grenadiers in the armies of Catholic countries [France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal - and Bavaria of course] all wore bearskin caps

There are (rare) exceptions, mate. For example, the Prince-Bishopric of Münster (ruled by Clemens of Bavaria, Archbishop of Köln), whose infantry wore the mitre. (Indeed, the uniforms were so Prussian I wonder if they were bought off the back of a Prussian Q wagon.) So there's a precedent for Willz' choice. Besides, mitres are cheaper than bearskins and bishops back then tended to mind their pennies (and whoever else's they could get their hands on).

You both forgot about jean Luc Pickard who sold the prince bishop the uniforms and mitres.
He would have made a large profit and if he could have sold bearskins at a profit they
would have been wearing bearskins instead of mitres .




Willz.