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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Admiral Benbow on November 23, 2009, 12:55:31 PM
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I'm looking for some egyptian gunners for my gunboat artillery. Any recommendations of nice suited 28 mm miniatures?
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Perry miniature have some in their Sudan range
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Not quite Perry sculpts but there may be some in the Askari range.
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Normally I should follow Gamer Mac's advicue and say look no further than Perrys. You would be hard-pressed to find better figures. But I think in this case you have to buy the gun and crew as a set, which you may not want to do.
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You could always buy the figure and gun sets and then give the guns to the Mahdists.
That's what the Egyptians did, after all ;)
Failing that, I'm sure some LAFer or other would do a deal and buy the guns off you, as it's rare to see anything better than the Perrys sculpts.
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Thanks all for your suggestions. I don't like the Askari ones, these are awful sculpts. I think I'll go for Perry's, although the poses are a bit stiff and static as usual. I would have liked some more dynamic poses, like firing the gun, aiming, loading, not just standing around.
Anyway, another option would be to go for a Naval Brigade crew with figs from Copplestone or Perry.
We'll see ...
???
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after asking the question on the other thread I had a look myself ;), copplestone look quite nice Redoubt also have some available for there Sudan range
http://www.redoubtenterprises.com/shop/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=740&category_id=6d6136635a11aafc46f153a3ebb3d91a
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I didn't say you would like them, just that they may have some. I have the Italians and Askaris which are great sculpts but some of the earlier stuff does look a little ropey