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COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight

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shazzdan


Asta wrote:Their Templar types had knee high boots instead of mailed legs and feet
They never wore surcoats until a few decades before they were disbanded. They wore boots but not like that - those are a few centuries too late. That helmet only started to be used just before they were disbanded and nobody wore separate coifs during that period. The cross is too big; the best research suggests that the cross was likely smaller and displayed over the left breast. Most Templars had black crosses, not red ones. Red crosses usually denoted adherents to St. George or St. Demetrius. What is most notable is that nothing on that figure would have been worn during the 1st-4th Crusades. The surcoat, the cross, the helmet, the coif, the sword were all 13th-14th century developments.

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Asta wrote:I read through the Gothic Knight' thread on OSW.

Tony Barton was pointing out what he saw as inaccuracies, such as shoulders too big, skirt and tassets too small.
The Gothic Knight was disappointing but this Milan Knight looks good.

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I regard the Gothic Knight as CooModel's first serious attempt at replicating historical record.

I think I wrote in this thread that they've been improving with every release. The Gothic armour is a big leap forward, and the Milanese so far looks an even bigger step.

It was the Milanese tease that made me go back and have another look at their Gothic Knight. I was waiting to get him for a good price because he would likely be less impressive than the upcoming Italian armour, because the Gothic armour does have inaccuracies:

The sallet misses the rivets that would've secured a liner on the real thing; the half visor sits lower than the bottom edge of the sallet itself. But those are things that aren't noticeable when viewed from the front or as you move towards three quarter view.

Another inconsistency is the addition of a silver heel to the sabatons, where a leather shoe should instead be visible.

The pauldrons tend towards the larger scale of Italian armour, though it was an aspect on some Gothic armour:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Leeds---Royal-Armouries-gallery_361_1266057m-Doug-Strong

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Leeds---Royal-Armouries-gallery_361_362712m-Doug-Strong

(1480 Leeds, UK, Royal Armouries, south German, made for Waldemar VI of Anhalt-Zerbst )


Or the Italo-German composite style but with symmetrical Gothic pauldrons


COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Nuremberg---Germanisches-National-Museum-gallery_332_51390m

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Nuremberg---Germanisches-National-Museum-gallery_332_73229m

(1470 - 1480 Nuremberg, Germany, Germanisches National Museum, Landshut, composite)


COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Schwbisch-Gmnd---Museum-im-Prediger-gallery_147_4565m-Christian-Wiedner

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Schwbisch-Gmnd---Museum-im-Prediger-gallery_147_18861m-Christian-Wiedner

(1470 Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany,Museum im Prediger, from church in Heiligenkreuz, Milanese armour with certain German stylistic elements)


The individual pieces of armour do, however, correspond to the style and function of armour seen in the historical record, though the way they attach has maybe been simplified in certain respects to accommodate a sixth scale movable figure.

If there was one thing about armour, it appeared in seemingly endless variety, with design choices made by the purchaser in the case of a full harness which would've been made to measure.

As I wrote earlier, I think it looks pretty accurate visually with examples of later 15th Century Gothic armour.

The thing I find with buying figures purporting to represent a historical period is that it encourages me to research deeper into the subject.

dadrab


I love these guys and have all three. They are the knights in armor I dreamed of as a kid.

Sounds like yours is well-bought. Attaboy. I preordered all three, which is something I detest, but did not want to run the risk of missing any of them.

Are they inaccurate? Why hell yeah, but they're still deeply cool...to me.


I shared your sorry experience with those damn studs on the shoulder pieces. One side was fine, but the  other side was not. The stud had come loose from it's housing. My strap was OK, but that stud whipped my ass. Finally, I stuck it in there with a touch of hot glue and all was well.

I really wish they'd stuck with the solution they used for the first two. There were magnets in the shoulder pieces that stuck to the appropriate sides of the chest armor. And, because they were placed with proper polarity, you cannot get them on backward. If you try, the magnets will repel and not stick. Pretty smart.

Still, I understand wanting to be more historically accurate albeit more of a PITA.

Ovy

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I might never get my hands on one of those knights, but I am happy for everyone who owns one.

Stryker2011 wrote:I would have loved these as a kid. Now, there's just too many other things out there to collect everything. I'll get Joan, and that will probably have to do for "armored historical figures" for me.
By Joan, do you mean this figure: http://www.monkeydepot.com/Boxed_Figure_POP_Toys_Saint_Knight_Triumph_Versio_p/pt0073.htm ? Pretty cool.

Skippy


dadrab wrote:I love these guys and have all three. They are the knights in armor I dreamed of as a kid.

Sounds like yours is well-bought. Attaboy. I preordered all three, which is something I detest, but did not want to run the risk of missing any of them.

Are they inaccurate? Why hell yeah, but they're still deeply cool...to me.


I shared your sorry experience with those damn studs on the shoulder pieces. One side was fine, but the  other side was not. The stud had come loose from it's housing. My strap was OK, but that stud whipped my ass. Finally, I stuck it in there with a touch of hot glue and all was well.

I really wish they'd stuck with the solution they used for the first two. There were magnets in the shoulder pieces that stuck to the appropriate sides of the chest armor. And, because they were placed with proper polarity, you cannot get them on backward. If you try, the magnets will repel and not stick. Pretty smart.

Still, I understand wanting to be more historically accurate albeit more of a PITA.

I have a very wide ranging collection in one sixth, with figures from Star Wars; Star Trek; comic book TV series and films; horror movies; western movies; Ghostbusters; Indiana Jones; military-themed female figures; post-apocalyptic survivors and so on...and on!

I buy the odd historical/real world figure, such as DAM's IDF CICC (which fit in with the military girls), and their Blackbird and U-2 pilots because they are just stunning to look at; plus a few 1930s Japanese and Chinese soldiers because it's a period and location that captured my fascination after watching Temple of Doom.

Apart from that I had one main historical period of interest: the Roman world. This has encompassed the Roman army, gladiators and Celts. I wanted all of these to be as historically accurate as possible, which entailed a lot of research and the swapping of parts. I loved the Spartacus TV series, but as with most television featuring gladiators (including so-called documentaries) it was almost complete fantasy which ignored the rules of gladiatorial combat. So making the figures look as correct as I could was an enjoyable exercise in research as well as a challenge.

I wasn't going to move into the fifteenth century... until PopToys showed their Jeanne d'Arc. I've been a fan of Milla Jovovich since I saw The Fifth Element.

That lead me to her 1999 film, The Messenger, which left a lasting impression. Hence the PopToys figure is a perfect storm in terms of collecting! Then CooModel teased their Milanese armour. So now I find myself expanding into this period, but trying to do it the way I've approached the Roman era. Jeanne herself, however, is a special case historically. Neither a knight nor a soldier, and recorded that she could not bear the weight of a full harness. So I'll cut her some slack with the figure representing her wearing an incomplete suit of armour.

Skippy


Ovy wrote:By Joan, do you mean this figure: http://www.monkeydepot.com/Boxed_Figure_POP_Toys_Saint_Knight_Triumph_Versio_p/pt0073.htm ? Pretty cool.

There's a thread for her here.

This post shows the two variant figures plus the horse:

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t208-teaser-poptoys-16-jeanne-d-arc#5231

Tjolnir

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dadrab

dadrab
Ok guys...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this figure hasn't been previewed yet, right?

Still in the R&D phase, as I understand it.

Just don't want to miss it.

Skippy


No, just that one teaser photo so far.

Skippy


Here he is:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 190439oucq8zuu4z8wdm6u

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 190441iplmvx4zlp70076n

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 190437n6ws0z6g89rkfqed

SE036 is his code.

I don't like the helmet on SE037:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 190550jdo9ffv4o4keokfi

...so won't be needing the SE038 double pack...

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 190043trffp89kprekkdow


Lots of photos on BBICN:

http://bbs.bbicn.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=344143&extra=page%3D1

dadrab

dadrab
Hold the phone now...

Am I to understand there are two new ones coming down the pike?

GubernatorFan

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dadrab wrote:Hold the phone now...

Am I to understand there are two new ones coming down the pike?

I think this is still the same one from the photo in the first post, these are just the official promotional materials. The other photos in various subsequent posts of other Coomodel knights, including the Gothic Knight, which was a relatively recent release.


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Skippy


SE036 is the one they teased as the "Milan Knight".

SE037 looks identical apart from the helmet.


The gold and black versions revealed the other day are based on this pair.

GubernatorFan

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Asta wrote:SE036 is the one they teased as the "Milan Knight".
SE037 looks identical apart from the helmet.
The gold and black versions revealed the other day are based on this pair.

Oh, I see. I thought the question was just about the Milanese knight, but didn't even realize the two variations. Personally, I prefer SE036, although I am sure late medieval armor probably also included something close enough to SE037 too.


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GubernatorFan wrote:Oh, I see. I thought the question was just about the Milanese knight, but didn't even realize the two variations. Personally, I prefer SE036, although I am sure late medieval armor probably also included something close enough to SE037 too.

What I don't like about SE037's helmet are the ridges running over it. SE036 seems more typical of Milanese design with the single crest in the centre.

Apart from the sabatons being all metallic again (with no sign of a leather shoe underneath), the armour looks very good to me.

shazzdan

shazzdan
SE036 looks pretty good. They screwed up the helmet on 037


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dadrab

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Hmmmmmm. I see the point about the helmet on 037 and would assert that without some more modern metal working equipment, it would be a pretty difficult construction process, BUT I really like it.

MerylAkiba


So if I buy the box set 038, it comes with shields and a long sword as the bonus pieces? Does this also come with extra shoulder armor, 2 standing and 2 plain? That way they could both have standing shoulder armor or is it the one set?

I missed out on every single coo model knight so I have to get this.

GubernatorFan

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MerylAkiba wrote:So if I buy the box set 038, it comes with shields and a long sword as the bonus pieces? Does this also come with extra shoulder armor, 2 standing and 2 plain? That way they could both have standing shoulder armor or is it the one set?

I missed out on every single coo model knight so I have to get this.

I can't be certain, but judging by the two Vikings set, if you get the two-figure set, you would get everything that comes with each individual figure, plus the exclusive piece(s).


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The SE036 'Knight of the Realm - Famiglia Ducale' was delivered this afternoon.

This was the one of their many variations that I chose to represent a late fifteenth century Milanese harness.

It's not perfect, but it is very striking.

I must a have spent an hour or so this morning scanning the net and going through numerous Osprey books covering the period, mainly looking at one particular aspect: tassets!

In about 1500 a style of flexible armour that became known as 'Almain rivet' was created in Germany. Overlapping metal lames were connected by rivets, and were able to slide on the rivets to afford flexibility to the tassets.

It was only when I got the figure in hand that I could discern that the tassets looked less flexible than Almain rivet. There are two rows of slightly off-set rivets, and they're moulded with an outward curve giving the impression of forming a single, more rigid piece of armour. Neither are they body forming as Almain rivet tassets tend to be.

Tassets made from lames were in use during the second half of the fifteenth century, though apparently not that common. There were a couple of examples among the Osprey books: a mid-fifteenth century German crossbowman, and a late fifteenth century Italian crossbowman.

In the Karsten Klingbeil collection, Berlin, was this c.1480 south German and Austrian composite:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 46280164244_7bf9cb31e4_o


So, depending how you view the tassets the armour can represent either the late fifteenth century, or well into the sixteenth.

Before putting on the larger pauldrons, I think he looks quite good with the just the spaulders on the upper arms:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 33133152518_2fcdb3271a_o

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 46284386944_7dc88589c5_o

A pair of tassets as culet armour:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 46284386874_0bb7cce872_o


Italian armour often had asymmetrical pauldrons, smaller on the dominant arm to assist movement for combat. It's not always the case, as there are examples where both left and right are identical.

At first glance the CooModel pauldrons appeared identical, but it became apparent that the right pauldron is wider from front to back. It's likely an accidental casting variation, because there's a magnet underneath it that's too far away from the breastplate to make contact. So it's held on only by the magnet that meets the spaulder.

If it was unintentional then it's a lucky accident, because it creates an asymmetry providing the sword arm with a little more range of motion.  

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 33133152298_1927c717b4_o

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 46284387004_c237877d7c_o


On the negative side, all the straps and belts are made of stiff plastic. No doubt it was done for longevity, but it's a strange choice reminiscent of a Marx knight from the 1960s.

Because the plastic is so stiff it's harder to tighter the belts as it would be with leather or pleather. He comes wearing a narrow belt, and there are two other wider belts packed in a bag that need to be put on. These have loops  to hold the scabbard and warhammer. The scabbard would slide out of the loop if you're not careful. When scabbarded the crossguard of the sword secures the scabbard.

Because the belts are less flexible than pleather there they get bulky when all three are worn together. So I removed the narrower one.

It would be pretty simply to remake the belts in leather. All you'd have to do is remove the buckles; cut a couple of strips of leather; shape the ends and glue the buckles to the leather belts. It's something I'll probably do when I get the inclination. But for now the black plastic is passable.

Another negative is that the camera flash highlights the openness of the mail. It isn't that apparent on display.

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Thank you for sharing the photos and your impressions and findings, Asta. Whatever the minor details (and this is too modern for me to spot any glaring issues, so I appreciate your research), the overall look appears both stunning and appropriate. As for real leather straps and belt, before you go cutting them yourself, you may want to look at the leather cords of different widths and thicknesses and sizes available in hobby stores -- that can probably save you a lot of grief and give you a nicely made and fairly durable option.


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GubernatorFan wrote:Thank you for sharing the photos and your impressions and findings, Asta. Whatever the minor details (and this is too modern for me to spot any glaring issues, so I appreciate your research), the overall look appears both stunning and appropriate. As for real leather straps and belt, before you go cutting them yourself, you may want to look at the leather cords of different widths and thicknesses and sizes available in hobby stores -- that can probably save you a lot of grief and give you a nicely made and fairly durable option.

I hadn't thought of that, as I have a stack of leather in various thicknesses that was bought years ago in a car boot sale with the intention of using for 1/6. But the need never arose.

I wouldn't change the straps as that would be too much work, and since they're small they don't stand out like the belts.

The plastic belts are simple lengths with a tapered end. The other end is looped round the buckle and glued.

This should be something straightforward that gets me started on working with the leather.  


A shot from the side that I forgot to post:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 46285599854_97a7085812_o


And a group photo:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 40044993993_a901d5fb3c_o

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 40045354003_9652a63289_o

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Interesting history, and great figure. When I was a kid my brother and I had two knights (and their horses) that my mom got at a garage sale. I had the Silver, and my brother had the Gold one; I think those were made by Marx, but I can’t be sure, they disappeared about 40 years ago.


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Skippy


Stryker2011 wrote:Interesting history, and great figure. When I was a kid my brother and I had two knights (and their horses) that my mom got at a garage sale. I had the Silver, and my brother had the Gold one; I think those were made by Marx, but I can’t be sure, they disappeared about 40 years ago.

I had the blue one which my mum had got from a jumble sale, but he didn't have any armour!

This is a re-issue version:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Bluekn10

Here's a vintage silver version:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Knight13

And gold:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Marx-g10

Note the style of the tassets. They even have double rows of rivets, though not offset. CooModel added shields to the double pack of this series, which it seems was inspired by the Total War videogame going by the Famiglia Ducale reference. Yet they could just as well be inspired by the original Marx series:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Knight14

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 Silver10

This page shows both the vintage and re-issue figures:

https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=seriesitemlist&id=163


In their time those were great looking toys.

It was mum's jumble sale forays that brought me unwittingly to the world of sixth scale. I had secondhand 1960s Action Man/GI Joe figures, some incomplete Marx Best of the West, and later on a Cylon Warrior. I've no idea where all that early stuff went.

I had smaller the Mego, Lone Ranger and Doctor Who figures, but they weren't quite the same as the 12" ones. Though I wish I still had the Mego Doctor Who Giant Robot, and wish I remembered where all those toys went!

Skippy


I remade the two belts in leather this morning:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 40049802313_0df7360378_o

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 33139155478_98d7aec22e_o


Just noticed in the close up that the first belt (the lower one) still has ink marks from when I was spacing out the holes. I'll take them off with a bit of sandpaper.

Stryker2011

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Wow. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I called my mom to find out where she got those Knights from (I thought it was a garage sale); turns out she got them from Sears. I have vague memories of opening this massive box on Christmas when I was about 4-5 years old (the box contained the Knight, the horse, and all the armour. The bad thing about them, was those little tabs that snap the pieces together kept breaking in the hands of typically careless little boys. My mom told me she sold them in a garage sale (I knew there was a garage sale in there somewhere), because my brother and I stopped playing with them. I do still have some of my old 12” figures from the 60s -70s — Six Million Dollar Man (with the capsule/rebuild playset), KISS, Lone Ranger and Silver, and a couple of G.I. Joes when they first started adding the flocking. Sadly, they’re all in pretty bad shape.

Nice job on the belts. I wonder if they shouldn’t be a darker color? (Just my own personal preference).


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Stryker2011 wrote:Wow. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I called my mom to find out where she got those Knights from (I thought it was a garage sale); turns out she got them from Sears. I have vague memories of opening this massive box on Christmas when I was about 4-5 years old (the box contained the Knight, the horse, and all the armour. The bad thing about them, was those little tabs that snap the pieces together kept breaking in the hands of typically careless little boys. My mom told me she sold them in a garage sale (I knew there was a garage sale in there somewhere), because my brother and I stopped playing with them. I do still have some of my old 12” figures from the 60s -70s — Six Million Dollar Man (with the capsule/rebuild playset), KISS, Lone Ranger and Silver, and a couple of G.I. Joes when they first started adding the flocking. Sadly, they’re all in pretty bad shape.

I remember one birthday I got Lone Ranger, Butch Cavendish, Silver, Smoke and the chuck wagon. I didn't think I could ever be happier! Later on I had Dan Reid and Red Sleeves. But never Tonto for some reason.

Stryker2011 wrote:Nice job on the belts. I wonder if they shouldn’t be a darker color? (Just my own personal preference).

Thanks. The colour isn't really so pale. I got close in with the camera and the flash washed it out.

I had a quick look online to see if there was a photo of a similarly coloured belt, and this is more like it:

COOMODEL 1/6 Empire Series - (New Lightweight Metal) Milanese Knight - Page 2 48457910

Since you mentioned the colour I looked around at my other figures from all genres, and leather is invariably represented as a darker brown.

In my 1/1 militaria collection I have a couple of First World War Webley holsters. One is dark brown, and the other the colour I used for the belts.

I might darken them a little by soaking them in cold tea.

Stryker2011

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For some unknown reason, I never had Tonto, either. One of my younger half-brothers had him (but I don’t remember which). That chuck wagon would have been cool.


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