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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Mike1879 on July 29, 2020, 09:18:26 PM
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First sneaky peak at some of the figures in their New Basotho wars range.
Mounted Basotho warriors and Infantry of the 43rd (Monmouthshire regt)
on show. Loads more to follow. Superb sculpts from the very talented Mr Paul Hicks.
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Lovely sculpts :-*
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Outstanding work from Mike and Paul :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :o :o
I've been glued to the Iron Duke Facebook page of late. I'm there three or four times a day!
Some of the detail that Paul has pulled out of the hat for some of the helmet work is unbelievable. o_o o_o o_o
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Visit the site myself several times a day to check on updates. Agree the detail on the helmets for their Sikh wars range is outstanding!!
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Visit the site myself several times a day to check on updates. Agree the detail on the helmets for their Sikh wars range is outstanding!!
You must be more excited than the rest of us! :)
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My word, but those British infantry are superb. Mr Hicks has excelled himself with those :-*
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Oohhh nice miniatures. I hope there are some Sotho-Tswana warriors on foot coming. I'd really like to convert them into Sebetwane and his Makololo.
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I can;t wait.They had warbands of as many as 6-to 1o thousand cav..Will go well with my Perry Cape frontier units. ..also Gov.Cathcart from Iron Duke.
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Absolutely stunning..... word fail :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Thanks for the heads up! The Cheshires for Scinde are superb. Whether I would ever run to making a full Baluchi army is another matter.
I do hope ID does some greated coated types for Gandamak, I’d happily buy some to replace the rather lacklustre Studio Miniatures ones I have. The really odd thing about that range being that Paul did some excellent personality figures but someone else did the infantry.
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These are just lovely, aren't they. I think there are some mounted Africans in my future. :)
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What on earth is that cavalry chap in the 3rd picture up to. I’m no expert in 19th century weapons, but I’m reasonably certain the barrel is usually pointing the other way.
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Hello
I’m not expert on early 19c British Army ..but those minis are nice ..as I already have some Afghan/MWF tribesmen and even some few Xhosas ..do you think those British infantry could be used also against the above mentioned foes? ..in fact I’m looking ,as a distraction for my late 19c colonials projects , a British infantry type for a pair of units that could be fielded possibly against xhosas, afghans and in case also against early boers ..could those ID beautiful minis do ?
Thanks
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Great looking minis.Mike Snook does some great ranges and you can be sure it won't be just a pack or 2.I could probably spend 10-20,000 thousand dollars on all the great miniatures out there. :-* ;D
Mark
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Andy Tee ,the fellow on the horse is reloading thee Musket on the fly,while riding..common practice.They were poor shots .But they were not inclined to dismount ,like their Boer counter parts,The boers fired from and reloaded in the saddle ,but were expert shots and in the early years used a very large caliber slug,
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Must......resist.....another....fantastci.....range agghhh
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Must......resist.....another....fantastci.....range agghhh
I just gave up and allowed the seduction to take it's coarse! lol
Sometimes, one does not have a choice :)
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Yes the Basotho on horseback is loading the musket by spitting the ball down the Barrel. The British infantry can be used to fight the Xhosa as this regiment the 43rd were involved in the Cape Frontier wars. Mike Snook has stated that they will be casting Xhosa as well as Basotho for this range.
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Thanks for the info. Very informative.
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Seems to me like a good way to lose all your front teeth if your horse stumbles on a rock or a Cape Cobra slithers out from under a bush. :)
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If spitting the ball down the barrel of the musket is good enough for Messrs Sharpe and Harper its good enough for me... though I never saw the afore mentioned gentleman trying to do it on horseback.
I feel like that miniature needs to be converted to carry one of these
(http://www.drinkstuff.com/productimg/93286_large.jpg)
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I imagine they will mix pretty well with Perrys Cape Wars range too, I am already feeling myself sliding towards this cliff edge!
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I imagine they will mix pretty well with Perrys Cape Wars range too, I am already feeling myself sliding towards this cliff edge!
It seems inevitable :)
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A very interesting range and yes probably 'inevitable'!
Can anyone ,please, recommend suitable reading matter to give me a flavour?
thank you F
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A very interesting range and yes probably 'inevitable'!
Can anyone ,please, recommend suitable reading matter to give me a flavour?
thank you F
Maybe try this
https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=3493&osCsid=g9v0qld8a81hedlmiqu9far4h0
(https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=3493&osCsid=g9v0qld8a81hedlmiqu9far4h0)
Also Iron Duke Miniatures has some historical notes on the website to whet the appetite here
https://www.irondukeminiatures.co.uk/orange-river (https://www.irondukeminiatures.co.uk/orange-river)
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Also Iron Duke Miniatures has some historical notes on the website to whet the appetite here
https://www.irondukeminiatures.co.uk/orange-river (https://www.irondukeminiatures.co.uk/orange-river)
A lot of info in Volume I. I don't own Volume II so cannot comment further.
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A very interesting range and yes probably 'inevitable'!
Can anyone ,please, recommend suitable reading matter to give me a flavour?
thank you F
I think it is set a little later, but I found 'Harry Smith's Last Throw' an interesting read.
Steve
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Thank you. Did not think to look on the Perry site.
F
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Also the Wedding feast War by Harry smith..also excellent.
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Also the Wedding feast War by Harry smith..also excellent.
Fiction?
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Fiction?
Non-fiction, about the 9th Xhosa war (1877-88), but it is by Keith Smith, not Harry Smith. Harry Smith was somebody entirely else, as I'm sure juergen knows, and it was almost certainly just a typo. :)
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Yes ..sorry ,,thanx Plynkes.
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Yes ..sorry ,,thanx Plynkes.
Good job I figured that out then :)
I also ordered The Wedding Feast War- both these books ought to be a fine complement to Cape Warriors Volume I and II which I already own.
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The last one mentioned covers a different period to the Perry book. Gaming-wise an outing for your Zulu War Brits, rather than the Horse and Musket guys of the earlier period. But yes, definitely compliments it in the sense that the Perry brothers have not covered this later period.
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The last one mentioned covers a different period to the Perry book. Gaming-wise an outing for your Zulu War Brits, rather than the Horse and Musket guys of the earlier period. But yes, definitely compliments it in the sense that the Perry brothers have not covered this later period.
If I hadn't read Cape Wars I would have been completely oblivious, except for a vague notion, that there had been a series of conflicts in South Africa prior to the Zulu War. Crazy really.....
It wasn't mentioned at school, we had a pretty good history department too, I have never seen a documentary that mentions any of the wars? Is it just me?
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Well to be fair, if school history covered every time the Victorians got into a fight with someone far away there wouldn't be an awful lot of room for anything else. It is pretty specialized stuff, and you've got to fit the Tudors and the Industrial Revolution in somewhere, I guess. :)
Honestly, when I was at school many years ago, we didn't cover any wars at all. Not even WW2. Everything I know about military history I have found out for myself, out of being interested in it.
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Well to be fair, if school history covered every time the Victorians got into a fight with someone far away there wouldn't be an awful lot of room for anything else. It is pretty specialized stuff, and you've got to fit the Tudors and the Industrial Revolution in somewhere, I guess. :)
Honestly, when I was at school many years ago, we didn't cover any wars at all. Not even WW2. Everything I know about military history I have found out for myself, out of being interested in it.
Blimey! We got the political and social history of Britain since roughly 1800 and the political and military history from the 1905 revolution in Russia to where were were in the Cold War. Stuff the the ECW, Glorious Revolution etc were all touched upon briefly too. I think I was lucky in that I had two excellent teachers and their enthusiasm was not only contagious but captivating, at least for me.
I found out much later that one was a Marxist and one very Conservative but I can honestly say that their views were neither hinted upon nor promulgated during the classes, which is outstanding teaching when it comes down to it. Not so with some of the other humanities.
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I loved history but the only thing, literally the only thing we were taught was the Industrial revolution, nothing on political or miliatary history in any way at all.
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I loved history but the only thing, literally the only thing we were taught was the Industrial revolution, nothing on political or miliatary history in any way at all.
Wow! I'd better not go any further as we're drifting wildly off topic. Though, there is a lot more to say on this topic maybe on another thread ;) :)
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I came away with the mistaken belief that the industrial revolution was largely based around some female whirling dervish who rejoiced in the name of Jenny. I might not have been paying close attention to that bit. :)
Actually most of my history teachers were pretty good, even the WW2 veteran, with probably un-diagnosed PTSD,who would disturbingly stand with his back to the class, chipping off unwanted accretions to the blackboard with a cut down and obviously quite sharp SMLE bayonet for whole lessons at a time.
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Slightly out of context for the Basotho Wars range but; I don't know about the rest of you but this has to be some of the finest work that Paul Hicks has done.... don't forget the detail.....
(https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/116292702_2629318323997478_5348740408030045098_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=xPI5M0KraZgAX-aUzBD&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=484feaf65f1524d7590a5ccec1b28923&oe=5F4C259B)
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Mr Hicks just gets better and better :o
This is the reason this range is going to be a belter not just because it’s something new and interesting but also the superb quality of his sculpting ;D
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Mr Hicks just gets better and better :o
This is the reason this range is going to be a belter not just because it’s something new and interesting but also the superb quality of his sculpting ;D
Yep, I have rarely seen such depth in terms of detail on a historical range of miniatures.
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Agh and theres the cliff egde again.