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Old 24th February 2019, 06:33 AM   #8
Jim McDougall
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Originally Posted by fernando
Well, in the lack of a minimum quorum to keep this thread alive, i have to see that the party goes on, myself .
Here is a rather interesting illustration of cabassets that i found while browsing on the subject.

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This is a wonderful plate of illustrations on the various versions of the cabasset. While thought of as a simple common soldiers helmet, it clearly had well embellished examples in many cases.

Interesting to see the names of Lillian and Fred Funcken, who I seem to recall from military miniature days of the painting of these small figures and wargamers (it was about 40 or more years ago). They published some of the finest illustrations for these purposes and accuracy was incredible. I recall trying my hand at this VERY briefly!
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