General: You'll hang for this Black Jack ..
Black Jack: that's as maybe but you'll have to catch me first. Now then lets see what you've got ... Are you General Stoltz ? Were you wounded at Hummelsdorf ?
General: Yes - Whats that to you ?
Black Jack: I remember that battle; horrible it was - the musket fire from those Monrovians was like hellfire.
General: You were there then ?
Black Jack: Aye I was; I was an officer in the 10th infantry regiment - it was you who pulled me back to the rear was I was injured, looks like you got shot up bad after that.
General: I remember pulling back a badly wounded young officer. You survived then, you seem to have fallen on hard times?
Black Jack: Not so bad, I make a good living. Alright men leave them be; we'll just take 10 thalers as a toll ..
[figs: General and Black Jack Davy- from Sash and Sabre pirate range; rest of brigands Front Rank AWI; Lady Eureka Musketeer range. Coach - Brumm model with coachman made from old Britains figure.]
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6 comments:
A lovely vignette and a pleasant anecdote, full of character.
Yes, a very nice little scene . . . and a nice story to go with it.
-- Jeff
where did you get the back drop?
Yes, excellent vignette, in miniatures and words!
Beautiful pic...and a very nice Brumm coach...a pretty rare model I think...I searched up a similar one on ebay just a while ago (the only one...) but unfortunately the seller wanted a huge amount for it.
--Dave
The Brumm coach was lucky find at my local Toy&Train fair. A stall had a collection of them for sale and I got the one shown for only £12.
The backdrop is 'Country Landscape', details in previous post -
http://tidders-kingdomofwittenberg.blogspot.com/2008/09/backscenes.html
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