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El Soldado Juguete

Written by Michael (Mike) Cannon

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Out for his daily constitutional, Juan Jondred, consort of the princess, exercises his hunting dogs...

This is the PC2 King Frederick the Great (mounted) produced by Stadden. The dogs come from a MegaMinis pack that contains a fox and hounds. I pulled the animal colors off of an internet site about dogs, of which there are many. Brown and black seem to be common colors for dogs and would add to and not overshadow the prince so I used those with some accent colors. I picked blue as the uniform color for Juan so I could use him in a real 7YW game if I so desired.

And now a bit about Juan Jondred. The list of characteristics comes from a page I maintain on my website. Even though the list is randomly generated, this is a pretty good description for a lazy womanizer. Note that he's a political appointee who owes his position to his relationship with the sovereign, thus the double entendre nickname "El Soldado Juguete" or "The Toy Soldier." I'll have to come up with a good number two for him as he is obviously not the kind of general you want running wars!

This was a pretty easy miniature to paint. It is substantially larger than the Spencer Smiths and RSMs he will be commanding so I'll have to keep him far from the front!

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