One of our more perfect figures in opinion of experts and historians. One arquebusier of the tercios of Felipe II. The details are specially carefully how the cartridge belt with the twelve loads of ammunition, (the twelve apostle) and the stick of support or the realism of the face of the soldier.
The name of arquebus come from the german Harchenbusche and was in origin a weapon of fire with a cannon of iron over a structure of wood from 0,9 to 1 metre of tall. The shoot was an ignition of the powder along a mechanism called pipe of convolution.
The weapon weight over 7 kilo, and shoot a bullet of 22-24 grams to a range over 100 meters but the efficacy shoot was only of 25 to 30 meters in a cadence of 2-3 by minute. Have the advantage of a fast learned of this use.
In last years appear in Flanders a ameliorated type of arquebus with an standard calibre and what was loaded before to come to the combat because the first fire discharge will be decisive and the process of load were very complicated.
- Presentación: in luxury quilted case
- Pintura: artisanally painted by water resistent paints
- Peso total: 687 grs
- Peana: brown, ultraviolet barnished, high bright
- Medidas peana (mm): 60X60X42
- Leyenda peana: “"Arcabucero España 1535"
- Altura total (con peana): 19 cm
