MarquisMini
A Fixture
Hello folks,
While i am working on finishing few projects i have added one more i 've been wanting to get my hands on, in this case is a figure brought from Argentina from a Friend as a gift, he made the conversion from an original.
The figure represents the personal bodyguard of the Gobernor of Buenos Aires, during his tirant "Rule" was the civil war know as "unitarios" y "Federales", as almost expected with a new Nation, once they are not longer under "Daddy's rule" fight between brothers break out lol.
Here is a little background about this Ruler:
Juan Manuel de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws",[A] was a politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation. Although born into a wealthy family, Rosas independently amassed a personal fortune, acquiring large tracts of land in the process. Rosas enlisted his workers in a private militia, as was common for rural proprietors, and took part in the disputes that led to numerous civil wars in his country. Victorious in warfare, personally influential, and with vast landholdings and a loyal private army, Rosas became a caudillo, as provincial warlords in the region were known. He eventually reached the rank of brigadier general, the highest in the Argentine Army, and became the undisputed leader of the Federalist Party.
Credits to Wikipedia by the way.
You will see a bunch of illustrations, some show the jacket in red, others in Blue, still confirming the sources, you will also see blackened breastplates , but good sources told me they were not blackened and wore silver instead, so, here i am with an unusual piece from my motherland and happy to be able to share some of the history of these forgotten uniforms in the Miniature world.
Cheers
While i am working on finishing few projects i have added one more i 've been wanting to get my hands on, in this case is a figure brought from Argentina from a Friend as a gift, he made the conversion from an original.
The figure represents the personal bodyguard of the Gobernor of Buenos Aires, during his tirant "Rule" was the civil war know as "unitarios" y "Federales", as almost expected with a new Nation, once they are not longer under "Daddy's rule" fight between brothers break out lol.
Here is a little background about this Ruler:
Juan Manuel de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws",[A] was a politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation. Although born into a wealthy family, Rosas independently amassed a personal fortune, acquiring large tracts of land in the process. Rosas enlisted his workers in a private militia, as was common for rural proprietors, and took part in the disputes that led to numerous civil wars in his country. Victorious in warfare, personally influential, and with vast landholdings and a loyal private army, Rosas became a caudillo, as provincial warlords in the region were known. He eventually reached the rank of brigadier general, the highest in the Argentine Army, and became the undisputed leader of the Federalist Party.
Credits to Wikipedia by the way.
You will see a bunch of illustrations, some show the jacket in red, others in Blue, still confirming the sources, you will also see blackened breastplates , but good sources told me they were not blackened and wore silver instead, so, here i am with an unusual piece from my motherland and happy to be able to share some of the history of these forgotten uniforms in the Miniature world.
Cheers
