It’s a pleasure to let you know about my new adventure, the creation of Bac Ninh Miniatures.
I’ve always thought that it would be great to have a little brand of miniatures and after thinking over it for a long time I decided to take this big step.
As a passionate of Japanese history, it was very clear to me in what historical period/conflict the Bac Ninh Miniatures are focused.
Japan 19th century, the last years of Tokuwaga Shogunate, also known as Bakumastsu and specifically during the Boshin War (1867-68),
a conflict that faced Shogun’s troops with the Emperator’s troops.
The fall of the Shogun’s troops and their followers lead into a new era in Japan, the Meiji restoration.
My intention is not other than showing you the fascinating period of the history of Japan and being able to reproduce
this into a tabletop or simply being able to add to your collection a few miniatures magnificently sculpted of this specific period.
Currently there are no miniatures of this conflict of the Japanese history,
which means that Bac Ninh Miniatures will be the first one offering these kinds of miniatures.
The great Paul Hicks has been the elected one to create these sculptures and as you can see his work has been amazing, as always!
It’s a risky bet given that it is a very little known conflict and I can’t know if it will be accepted,
this means that its success and continuity of this range of miniatures depends mostly on the interested people.
This is the first pack that will come out and it will be available in a couple of weeks approximately.
As you can see it consists of four miniatures, two officers and two NCOs.
The officer and the NCO with the “great wigs” are specific for the Emperor’s troops, concretely of the Tosa, Choshu and Satsuma Clan.
The other ones can be used for both sides.
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Following this pack, other ones will be released containing basic troops, and more things that I have on my mind,
but as I said before, the continuity of this range depends mostly from you.
In this blog; http://bacninhminiatures.blogspot.com.es/ (http://bacninhminiatures.blogspot.com.es/) you will be duly informed about all the news of Bac Ninh Miniatures,
where I also will be publishing some topics related to this conflict (uniformology, articles of painting and history, etc.)
Jose A.