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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: gringo on October 22, 2023, 11:18:45 AM
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i will be posting some pictures
of my 28mm Tonkin range...
first up...........
28mm Algerian Spahis in French service
who fought in the Tonkin campaign and
later in the Dahomey War..all these figures
cover both campaigns,...Top paintwork from
Nick Buxey! :o :-* :o :-*
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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recent update....working on a set of rules for
this fascinating period...almost done :D 8) :o :-*
regards
Ged
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28mm Gringo40s steam launch attempting an audacious attack on a Black flag junk ..all figures and ships available from www.gringo40s.com
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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Thanks for the posts. Great looking line and a fascinating period that does not get much attention.
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Inkpaduta many thanks indeed..will post
more pictures.when im able!
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com ;)
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Received my order today from Tonkin, superb. So if you like this period by Gringo’s Tonkin, that he may continue to sculpt many years to come! Feel like a kid who got his New toysoldiers!
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Hi Rommel
many thanks for the kind comments
much appreciated...will be posting more
pictures to asssit with the uniforms.
beat regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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28mm Black flags using a mixture of Gringo40s ching dynasty and our Black flag castings top work by RAFA www.gringo40s.com
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Ged
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28mm Harry Flashman in China.........figure available from our 28mm Tonkin 1885 range. top paintwork from Andy Singleton. www.gringo40s.com
Regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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I rode that the Black Flag were irregular Chinese and ex Taiping? Could the Taipings be used as Black Flag from the Opium war range?
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Hi Rommel....all my Chinese including the Opium War
figures can be used..as time moved slowly in China for
uniforms ,weapons and general military strategy! :D 8) :o :-*
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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one for you Rommel...French Marine officer
in action Tonkin 1885..top paintwork from
my mate Colin at Trafalger painting services :D 8) :o :-*
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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I rode that the Black Flag were irregular Chinese and ex Taiping? Could the Taipings be used as Black Flag from the Opium war range?
The relationship between the Black Flags and the Taiping was pretty tenuous at best. The leader of the so-called 'Kingdom of Yanling', from which the Black Flags split in 1864, was a man by the name of Wu Yuanqing who claimed he was a Taiping officer, but there's no other evidence besides his own word. While their supposed connections to the Taiping had popular purchase (the French routinely referred to ethnic Chinese rebels as 'Taipings' for decades afterward), there's no actual concrete link between them in terms of goals or personnel, except insofar as some former Taiping might have slipped into Vietnam as things went proverbially south for them in China.
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EnclavedMicrostate
thanks for your fascinating comments...with the vast numbers of troops
and complicated factions and battles.i was unaware of this guy..Is there
a good book on him and his machinations. i have books which mention the
coming over of the Taiping Rebels ,but its often along the lines of "some"
former Taiping Rebels..a touch of the almost romantic Ronin style warrior.
For me as a manufacturer the Tonkin period holds the greater interest with
the sheer variety of troops on display as it were. look forward to your comments
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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Thanks for the info,Ged.
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Unfortunately I don't think anything exists in English on Yanling (and I haven't looked deeply enough to see if anything exists in Chinese) – what I know about this period I mostly know from Bradley Camp Davis' book on the Black and Yellow Flags.
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EnclavedMicrostate
is this the.book...probably
the best one on the subject
my first port of call for a well
balanced overview on the subject
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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Yep, that's the one!
A friend of my dad's was, for over a decade, trying to get a book on the Sino-French War published, but it still has yet to see the light of day. A different friend – though not, it seems, a mutual one – happened to work for Hong Kong University Press when the manuscript was being passed around, and apparently he just wasn't willing to edit it down to a readable length...
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i did wonder if it was that book.......the unedited book you mention
sounds fascinating..i would be more then happy to assist in having the
book published in the UK should the topic of conversation come up!. :D ;) :D ;)
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French Torpedo boat Tonkin 1885 www.gringo40s.com :o :-* :o :-*
Regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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Chaps...we have now fully restocked
our Spahis..for Tonkin 1885 range :D
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com
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Received my paperback copy today, a little bit disapointed, total of 260-270 pages with only 190 pages text, à lot of pages with names and other. Now find the time to read.
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Rommel my pleasure!
regards
Ged
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attached picture..surrender of the Black Flags! :o
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Maybe doying some heads on poles/pikes? When reading it is often mentioned by the Black Flags.
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this is a good book on the war, too. Well written (which makes a change) by a British journalist - and baronet - who covered the war.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/FRANCE-TONGKING-NARRATIVE-CAMPAIGN-OCCUPATION-ebook/dp/B08H1D6329/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1702604640&sr=8-2
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Nogbad
thanks for the heads up...not seen this tome
will add to my collection ;) :D 8) ;)
regards
Ged
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