Spanish swordsman

Spanish Swordsman and Swiss Pikeman 1503

This piece is comin' along, and now I leave some of the latest work pictures. The cape is only dryfit with base colours, just to see the general feeling of the piece with the colour scheme adopted. The leathers are also just based as well as the waist scarfe. Regards Pedro

Rodeleros also known as "Sword and Buckler Men", were Spanish troops in the early 16th century, equipped with steel shields or bucklers known as rodela and swords. Originally conceived as an Italian attempt to revive the legionary swordsman, they were adopted by the Spanish and used with great efficiency in the Italian Wars during the 1510s and 1520s, but discontinued in the 1530s.

The mere mention of musketeers brings to mind attractive men wearing large hats, tall boots and fighting with swords. And yet, we are not here just to stare at pictures of such. Although it was a h…

From humble beginnings as just another Phoenician colony in a ‘distant part’ of the world, Carthage or Kart-hadasht (Phoenician – ‘new city’) – known as Karchedon by the Greeks and Carthago by the Romans, emerged as one of the greatest Mediterranean powers that challenged the might of both Syracuse and Rome.

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Man with rapier... apparently backing up...