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Title: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on 15 July 2013, 02:47:22 PM

Some latest releases commissioned by a customer.

Maori artillery in the form of a carronade.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/NZ171_zps03397274.jpg) (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Eaglstone/media/NZ171_zps03397274.jpg.html)

Civillians

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/NZ16_zps80a8e1fc.jpg) (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Eaglstone/media/NZ16_zps80a8e1fc.jpg.html)

All available at Empress.

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: moonshado on 15 July 2013, 03:23:12 PM

Some very nice releases( these and your afghans), guess those civilians will be appearing all over the Victorian world not to mention Victorian Mars and Venus

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Juan on 15 July 2013, 05:20:12 PM

They are wonderful figures, wonderful. And that carronade is GREAT!!!

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Hammers on 15 July 2013, 05:27:46 PM

Loads of character. From whom did the maori get their hardware?

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: commissarmoody on 15 July 2013, 06:07:09 PM

If memory serves, they got most of there hard wear from the British. Mostly through trade actually.

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Arthur on 15 July 2013, 07:41:06 PM

Lovely figures indeed. And those civilians are indeed quite multi-purpose.

Would be nice if at some point Paul did a half-crazed ex-farmer bent on vengeance and armed with a four-barrelled shotgun (well, he did those movie versions of the Rorke's Drift characters after all, didn't he ?)  ;)   

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Matakakea on 16 July 2013, 05:14:04 PM

Now that carronade is just what I've been wanting! That will save me a lot of conversion work :P
How about an officer with a pepperbox as well???

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 16 July 2013, 08:10:48 PM

Wow, what a bunch of emotions immortalised using some lead. Great work, guys!

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: marianas_gamer on 16 July 2013, 08:55:35 PM

Really nice minis and GREAT carronade.  Along the Kona coast of the big island of Hawaii there are many petroglyphs of ships and ordnance from the early 19th c..  I remember finding a nice petroglyph of a carronade within the pu'uhonua at Honaunau when I worked there. I wonder how well the carronade would go with the Eureka Hawaiians?
LB

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: fastolfrus on 16 July 2013, 08:58:01 PM

Quote from: Hammers on 15 July 2013, 05:27:46 PM

From whom did the maori get their hardware?

From Empress?

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Arthur on 16 July 2013, 11:51:53 PM

Found the video I was looking for the other day :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmyNqO6LAvQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmyNqO6LAvQ

Admittedly a slightly later period (1860's) than the Empress range, but would still make for a distinctive character figure.

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Arteis on 17 July 2013, 09:55:17 AM

Ordered tonight.  How could I resist?!

Here are some references to Kawiti's carronade:
http://riv.co.nz/rnza/hist/local/kawh.htm
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/Cow01NewZ-fig-Cow01NewZ079a.html
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=51011

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: HerbyF on 17 July 2013, 10:05:10 AM

These are great. I really like the woman with the Pepperbox.  :-*

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Driscoles on 19 July 2013, 10:49:08 AM

wonderful miniatures. Especially the civilians !

Title: Re: Empress Maori War releases
Post by: Grimnir on 19 July 2013, 08:38:01 PM

Funtastic new miniatures. It's nice to see the range being continued.