Peter wrote: this kind of mill allready exist in 1/72?
Thanks for sharing this information, Peter, I appreciate that a lot, its always very interesting to compare different products sharing the same subject.
But I think thats representing a typical Portuguese windmill, like this one:
I also found this, for 25mm Hinchliffe Peninsula gaming:
This man called Dick Tennant lived close to my house in my childhood village and I visited his wargame room where he showed me this model back in 1985.
Fredericus-Rex wrote: that is not our quality
This makes it only more interesting. I look forward to see the result.
Marvin wrote:the name above the door says Rocinante, which is the name of Don Quixote's horse. Coincidental? I think not.
No, no coincident I think, the image Fredericus Rex showed us is from the La Mancha windmills, build close to a medieval castle. The chapter of the story of Don Quixote must be inspired by these. Already in Franco's time these windmills got names referring to the story to attract tourists. There is more 'touristic stuff' around:
Very important is the choice for mills with only four blades (like in central europe) because these represent the four moving arms of the Giants that have to be conquered.
That is probably why Fredericus Rex does not choose the more typical 6...
...or 8 armed windmill...
which would represent something more like an octopus to fight against.
Fredericus-Rex wrote:what we want.
Is what you want a typical Don Quixote windmill?