Rough Riders, 1 July 1898 (1 Viewer)

[justinoclaudio]

Re: Roughr Riders, 1 July 1898

Spanish soldiers with many years in the tropics (e.g. Cuba) turned to get very dark skin tones due to their "olive/Mediterranean" skin.

Mmm... First of all, sorry for my English Spaniards are from Spain, a European country, and they are white skin like the French or the Italians. The figures are fantastic and the uniforms are very realistic, but I fear that the soldiers seem Mexican. The olive/Mediterranean skin is more usual in the southern regions of the country but they are obviously white people as the other western european countries.

 

[jazzeum]

Re: Roughr Riders, 1 July 1898

Spanish soldiers with many years in the tropics (e.g. Cuba) turned to get very dark skin tones due to their "olive/Mediterranean" skin.

I must have missed this one but it's one of the stupidest comments I've seen here.

 

[jazzeum]

This photo makes clear what the Spanish soldiers looked like, not peasant fighters in the Mexican Revolution.

 

[Flyboy]

First I would like to say great diorama. This sparked my interest as I am working on the same one with most of the figures from this range. However, their are historical inaccuracies with the set.

1. There were no German advisors on the Spanish side in the conflict. This is easily confirmed by a number of sources. Google it and you will walk through many sources that verify this. There were no German advisors fighting in the field with an automatic pistol on the American side as well.

2. The Spanish did not have any Maxim machine guns in the field at San Juan or Kettle hills in the engagements either. In fact I do not believe they had any machine guns. They had 4 Maxims that did not work back in the main city and later pitched them for French machine guns if I remember right. Apparently the Maxims had been sent out with wrong parts or something. I thought that the reason the machine gunner was not photographed in the original pictures but then saw a close up later in the in the posts.

Now enough of the historical inaccuracies of the figures.

My diorama will be the same because as in may of the KC sets that I own collect and love, they are based on movies. This seems to be based on the movie mini-series the Rough Riders with Tom Berenger and a host of elite actors where they did have fighting German advisors on the Spanish side and Maxim machine guns. These two historical inaccuracy do not hold a candle to the barrage of inaccuracies in the film related to Roosevelt; Secretary of State John Hay; Nash; machine gun belts on the wrong sides in clips; and you can even see a microphone stick in one scene. Even Teddy calling the Germans Huns.....this did not come about until WW1 years later....when the practice was started by none other then Kaiser Bill himself believe it or not. However adding the Germans to the movie helped Hollywood add to the deviousness of the other side so.... typical.

So in the end awesome diorama and I will be doing mine the same. I love the movie concepts!! When those that are historians visit I will whisk away the German and Spanish on Maxim before opening the front door.