The battle of the golden spurs

[kenc]

For the Quiz organised by my wife's school, I made a ten questions Playmobil round. One of the pictures I made was a closup of the Battle Of The Golden Spurs. This battle was fought on the 11th of July 1302, between a French knights army and a Flemish army mainly consisting of peasants, foot soldiers and a small fraction of knights. In normal conditions the strong french knights would have always won agains the Flemings but the Flemish army was setup behind a wide moat. Lots of the heavily armored knights couldn't manoeuvre on the swamp like field and in the moat and fell victim to the Flemish foot soldiers who disabled the knights with their 'goedendags' (a kind of mace, only a stick and a heavy pin, no chain as sometimes mistakenly thought).

I had to make this picture very quick so I hope to remake it soon with a lot more actors than just the few in the picture 

[kenc]

One more thing, I sew off the white and the black horses' legs to make the illusion that they slog through the water 

[Erik]

Looks great!!!

[Georgeag1972]

It looks awesome!!! Fantastic picture!!!

George.

[Cloud Strife]

Beautiful scene, love the sense of movement in your composition of the lances and horses smashing into the stationary Flemish side so there is that sense of opposition and conflict.  Oh and yeah, that guy smashing somebody's head on the ground too   This is like Agincourt 1.0.

Can I ask what the moat is made of?  My guess is the Playmobil lake recolored?

[macgayver]

Where is Jan Breydel ? 

[Birdie]

Wow, that's amazing!! You really captured the scene well.
I thought it was actual water, before I read your second post.

Now I'm curious about the other nine questions you did 

[Erik]

Coudn't resist showing you the Flemish weapon of choice that day, the "Goedendag", which means "hello, have a nice day" in English...

[Hallensis]

That's a very cool scene, well done ! 

[Hadoque]

Very nice pic, Ken! 

I had to make this picture very quick so I hope to remake it soon with a lot more actors than just the few in the picture  ;

Will there also be a golden "Lion of Flanders" knight then, like in Conscience's novel about the battle and the movie based on it?

Where is Jan Breydel ? 

In a pub having a few beers with Pieter de Crem de Coninck?