Author Topic: And the new Perry Miniatures range is... (Read 22856 times)

Marine0846 · « **Reply #120 on:** January 08, 2020, 05:52:02 PM »

Wow, lovely figures.
I have some of the Perry metal guys.
I have always said that they were some of the best they have done.
Might be enough to get me back into painting that period.

Shahbahraz · « **Reply #121 on:** January 08, 2020, 06:22:45 PM »

Oh. They look nice. Not that I need any...

carlos marighela · « **Reply #122 on:** January 08, 2020, 07:32:41 PM »

So there will now be two sets of plastic Afghans coming out in 2020. Spoiled for choice really. Hopefully either the Perry twins or Wargames Atlantic will have the wit to add some SMLEs so that they can be used up until the 1930s.

Poiter50 · « **Reply #123 on:** January 09, 2020, 01:03:35 AM »

Use arms from any of the British WW2 ranges in plakky, may need a small amount of green stuff and sharp knife to disguise cuffs, buttons etc. Perhaps even a captured Bren?

Quote from: carlos marighela on January 08, 2020, 07:32:41 PM

So there will now be two sets of plastic Afghans coming out in 2020. Spoiled for choice really. Hopefully either the Perry twins or Wargames Atlantic will have the wit to add some SMLEs so that they can be used up until the 1930s.

Macunaima · « **Reply #124 on:** January 09, 2020, 02:35:19 AM »

Now if someone would just get the Perrys to do a line of cangaceiros, I could die happy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangaço

argsilverson · « **Reply #125 on:** January 09, 2020, 03:13:49 AM »

Quote from: Macunaima on January 09, 2020, 02:35:19 AM

Now if someone would just get the Perrys to do a line of cangaceiros, I could die happy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangaço

Yes that would be very interesting
wargaming Lampiao!

von Lucky · « **Reply #126 on:** January 09, 2020, 08:05:57 AM »

That would also be cool, there was a series of articles in Wargames Illustrated in the early 1990s titled "O Cangaceiro" on the subject.

Found them here:
https://docplayer.net/70690127-Lampiao-bandit-king-of-brazil-by-mike-bell-in-december-1916-virgulino-and-one-ofhis-brothen-levino-lampiao-was-such-a-man.html

carlos marighela · « **Reply #127 on:** January 09, 2020, 08:25:21 AM »

Want to stump up some cash? I know someone prepared to make them, have a lot of material for the sculptor to work from and I’m happy to put in a wad myself. Lampião, Maria Bonita, Corisco and of course an obligatory Othon Bastos version of Corisco. I reckon I’d also want an Antonio das Mortes/ not Maurico do Valle figure and one of Coirana as a tribute to Glauber Rocha.

Love that film.

argsilverson · « **Reply #128 on:** January 09, 2020, 12:18:00 PM »

Many years ago I read a book on Lampiao (maybe by Jorge Amado?) and eversince I wanted to have some minis for that.
In the meantime Cangaceiro is a folk myth in Brazil or so I am informed , since neither I am Brazilian nor I speak Portuguese in fact I live very far away, and there are a lot of music and films about the cangaceiro legend. Notable is Joan Baez song (in 1964 album No 5) and of course the film " O Cangaceiro" of 1953!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045595/

By the way does anyone know how the Brazilian police uniforms looked like in 1930's ?

I just noticed the board where this post is. Wrong time

carlos marighela · « **Reply #129 on:** January 09, 2020, 01:20:35 PM »

The police fighting the cangaceiros in the nordeste dressed, as often as not, in the folk styles of the interior, in other words they looked not unlike the cangaceiros themselves. The formal uniform for the various states police generally tended to follow military lines, khaki tunics and peaked caps. In the field oft mixed with civilian gear.

Top photo shows police from Sergipe at the Gruta de Angico with the corpse of Maria Bonita. This is where Lampião and most of his band were killed

The police were supplemented by what were effectively vigilante posses. I’ve attached a photo of one such group from Bahia at the bottom.

Macunaima · « **Reply #130 on:** January 09, 2020, 01:44:54 PM »

Wow! I didn’t know about that article, or the Joan Baez song! Thanks guys!

Carlos, why yes, depending upon the amount (and even with our shitty exchange rate), I might be interested! Pity I lost track of Jorge, because we COULD launch the first miniatures line in Brazil!

carlos marighela · « **Reply #131 on:** January 09, 2020, 08:26:10 PM »

Fond as I an of Ms Baez, it’s hard to beat José Pacheco’s Arrival of Lampião in Hell. The clip accompanying it has some well known footage of Lampião from circa 1936. It also shows a little of the vegetation found in the sertão of North East Brazil, which will probably come as a surprise to those with visions of lush tropical forest.

Macunaima · « **Reply #132 on:** January 09, 2020, 08:42:55 PM »

Here’s my favorite song on this topic:

Macunaima · « **Reply #133 on:** January 09, 2020, 08:46:15 PM »

And, of course, cangaceiros would be of use for the Canudos campaign as well.

carlos marighela · « **Reply #134 on:** January 10, 2020, 03:36:47 AM »

Sometimes when I wish to tease my son about his hair, I call him Chico Science Experiment. Bad parent, I know.

Not sure cangaceiros would work for Canudos, they would need to look a lot more like everyday civvies IMO. The army could probably be made with a mash-up of Perry plastic ACW, Zulu War and possibly DAK figures.

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