Just Seen The New Maori Wars Range From Empress – Wow!
I have been following this release over on the Lead Adventure forum. Now the range is on the Empress miniatures website with pics.
The range is small but absolutely stunning! I have been thinking about the Maori wars for years, but have been put off by the fact the only decent range I could find was in Australia, and the postage was insane.
Here is a sample of the quality:
You can see the full range on this page of the Empress site. Looks like another project for 2011!
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Some pics of my latest Colonial/Darkest Africa Painting
Just a quick post to put up some photo’s of my latest painting efforts for my 28mm Colonial – Darkest Africa project.
The first pic is of a Company (or platoon depending on the scale of the rules used) of British Infantry. They are from the Empress Miniatures 28mm range, with a couple of Wargames Foundry in there as well.
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The second pic is of a 28mm Zulu War 9pdr Hales Rocket trough and crew, including a seconded infantryman from the 24th foot. Again, these are from the wonderful Empress miniatures range, with two Foundry artillerymen added in for effect. I will be using these against all sorts of undesirables for morale effect!
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The third pic is of my second unit of Arabs. These are from Wargames Foundry’s darkest Africa range. These can provide opposition against regular forces across the whole of northern and central Africa.
I have had a few requests to share my rules, called Gunboat Diplomacy. I may do so soon, I am just working on a decent draft.
Apologies that the photo’s are not great quality. I did not have my camera handy so I took them on my Blackberry and emailed them to myself!
That’s all folks!
Colonial Steamer/Gunboat Gets It’s First Action!
The other night my new colonial gunboat had it’s baptism of fire.
It was part of a British force sent upriver to take out the defensive positions of a local Arab warlord. He was demanding payment from passing shipping to avoid being sunk by his cannon.
A British force, supported by the gunboat were sent upriver to turf him out of his strong defensive positions. It was a text-book operation that resulted in all the Arab units streaming from the table.
It took me a month to constuct and I’m pretty happy with the result. It was contructed from plasticard mostly. I made the bow by bending two pieces of plasticard over a boiling kettle (wearing gloves!) to create a permanent bend. I then used araldite to keep them stuck together to form the bow.
The gunboat was crewed by Copplestone castings Naval Brigade, which are wonderful figures. Three officers formed the crew, while a 12 strong Naval Brigade (figure scale 10:1) was on-board. They spent a turn disembarking, before storming up the bluffs overlooking the river and taking the Arab sangars at the point of the bayonet.
Fire support was provided by the 3pdr QF deck gun. The gun model and crew are from Eureka.
The rules used were my own “Grand Skirmish” rules called Gunboat Diplomacy.
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