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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Arteis on 28 June 2012, 10:40:21 AM

Title: Maori pa under attack!
Post by: Arteis on 28 June 2012, 10:40:21 AM

My Maori pa experiment has succeeded - well, I think so, anyway.  Check my blog to see what you think?  

http://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/maori-pa-under-attack/ (http://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/maori-pa-under-attack/)

Sample pics:
(http://arteis.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/pa_img_0898.jpg)

(http://arteis.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/pa_img_0901.jpg)

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Post by: Poiter50 on 28 June 2012, 10:42:18 AM

Marvellous, Roly, I love how that project is coming along.

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Post by: Westfalia Chris on 28 June 2012, 10:43:32 AM

Excellent work, especially the little touches and how well the bases line up. The irregularity irks me, but that is just me, and as you wrote, it's required by historical precedent. :)

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Post by: marianas_gamer on 28 June 2012, 10:57:40 AM

Looks great and compliments those nicely painted minis
LB

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Post by: Captain Blood on 28 June 2012, 11:27:50 AM

Quote from: Westfalia Chris on 28 June 2012, 10:43:32 AM

The irregularity irks me

Ah, Chris, you are a true German after all  ;)

Very nice scene Arteis.

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Post by: Lowtardog on 28 June 2012, 12:07:24 PM

Lovely work. :-*

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Post by: Westfalia Chris on 28 June 2012, 12:57:20 PM

Quote from: Captain Blood on 28 June 2012, 11:27:50 AM

Ah, Chris, you are a true German after all  ;)

Don't get me wrong, I like cozy little villages like the next man, with cottages scattered here and there and the sheriff can take his zoning laws and shove them. ;)

But for palisades, I really prefer the "nice and tight" variety. I recently saw "The New World" for the first time (as part of a project which I recently started, but haven't had the time to document yet), and while the rest of the film looked awesome, those ramshackle palisades nearly spoiled it for me.  lol It might also be a matter of scale, as for gaming pieces, the loose variety evokes a "fence" thing rather than "palisade wall" in my wind.

I hope to do a bit of palisaded forts for 17c Colonial America soon, so you can rip away at those, how unrealistic they are etc., as a response. ;) lol

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Post by: Plynkes on 28 June 2012, 01:01:56 PM

I guess you better not go looking into the palisades of East African bomas then, Chris. You'll give yourself a conniption.  :)

Title: Re: Maori pa under attack!
Post by: Arteis on 28 June 2012, 07:02:21 PM

Maori didn't go for nice and tight palisades. ;-) 

In fact, this was one of their strengths, as cannonballs would often pass through, breaking maybe a few palings, but they would just swing back on their lashings, then fall back into place.  Some pas, to stop musket bullets, did wrap their fences in flax screens.

The fences were more of an obstacle (akin to barbed wire a generation or two later), with the real defence being the trench.

(http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-29391&profile=access)

(http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/etexts/BesPaMa/BesPaMa064a.jpg)

Title: Re: Maori pa under attack!
Post by: Marine0846 on 29 June 2012, 02:57:30 AM

So do we get a little how-to make it ?
Please.
Like the look, hope to see it finished soon.

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Post by: H.M.Stanley on 29 June 2012, 07:28:55 AM

I think you can safely say that your project is a success ..  :)

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Post by: Keith on 29 June 2012, 07:39:44 AM

Brilliant!

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Post by: commissarmoody on 29 June 2012, 09:36:00 AM

Nicely done sir.

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Post by: aggro84 on 29 June 2012, 11:29:39 PM

Very nice. I'd call the walls a definite success.  :-*

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Post by: carlos marighela on 30 June 2012, 01:14:34 AM

Beautiful work Roly.