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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Fanis on April 07, 2012, 01:58:32 PM
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Finished a few Copplestone sailors in sennet hats last week. Lovely sculpts. Basing still pending.
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/Teo97/DSCF2483.jpg)
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Very nice, they have come out lovely indeed. Strange picture compasition though ;)
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That's because they have no officer. They are all milling about and bumping into one another for lack of orders. But they'll be facing the same way soon enough, once one of them figures out which direction the bar is in. :)
Lovely job.
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Excellent paintwork Fanis but they do seem to be a bit confused ;)
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lol! barstewards the lot of ya! :D
I just plopped them under the lamp in this erm...haphazard manner to show the figs from all angles! lol
Thank you for the kind words lads ;)
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Beautifully done. Some of my favourite sculpts of his.
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The look great!
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Outstanding! Richard
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Lovely paintjobs on some great sculpts.
You have just added to my 'wants' list now.
Thank you!
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I like 'em. It is a well known fact that figures cannot keep proper formations until the bases are completed! lol
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They look fantastic.
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Great colors and shading. The models look very crisp as well. :-*
Thank you for sharing.
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Laugh! barstewards the lot of ya! Cheesy
What did you expect? Great looking figures
I just plopped them under the lamp in this erm...haphazard manner to show the figs from all angles! Laugh
Whatever! lol
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Very neat paintwork. Well done :)
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Fab job there Sir.
Oh just think a Naval Landing Party for Heart of Africa/DitDC [ no no .. stop it]
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Very nicely done 8)
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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Vey nice, they aren't confused.. just got back from liberty! lol
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Fantastic. Really well done!
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Fab job there Sir.
Oh just think a Naval Landing Party for Heart of Africa/DitDC [ no no .. stop it]
Oooh! Go on go on go on go on go on go on go on!!!! :D
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/images/2008/01/17/mrs_doyle_203_203x152.jpg)
For "in the heart of africa" it's just 4 bands of 6 men each. Add a regular Leader for 28 points and you have a nice and round 700 points force! And for variety you can have a machine gun or a standard bearer. The basic force is only 28 figures!! Go ooooooooooooooooon! lol
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Once again many thanks for the kind words lads; much appreciated.
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Face it guys.
That's how the navy does close order drill. :o lol
They are really nicely painted.
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Great figures, the blue is very nice indeed :-* :-*
cheers
James
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Lads I need to paint another 12 of the Copplestone sailors (this time not in sennet hats http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/afu3.jpg ) and I was wondering if they wore any other uniform other than the all blue I modelled above.
I am mainly wondering because I saw a pic of some naval lads managing a machine gun in the zulu war and they were in white tops.
Thank you.
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My research led me to the understanding that there was massive variety in Royal Navy uniforms throughout the 1800's. I've seen pics of blue tops with white trousers, all blue, etc. Landing parties from two ships would look different.
I don't think I've seen all white in the 1800's though.
I may be wrong, I'm away from the books. And great painting by the way!
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I don't think I've seen all white in the 1800's though.
Yes you have. :)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/back%20to%20africa/Gunboatsmall.jpg)
Also, the four ships that sent detachments to the Zulu War each sent their men in different combinations of the blue and the white uniforms. The ones from Boadicea were clad nearly all in white (they wore their blue hats). Whether the men wore their blues, tropical whites, or a mix seems to have been entirely left to the whim of the captain. While each of the four detachments in Zululand dressed differently, within each detachment everybody dressed the same. So in that case at least, it wasn't left to individual sailors to decide.
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Cheers lads. The rules call for 6-man detachments and since I have already painted the first two all in blue I will consider painting the other two in a mix of white and blue.
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Yes you have. :)
I need to save that picture, and make the boat as penance for having forgotten it.
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While we're talking sailors. What's the word on having units with mixed headwear? I've been buying Copplestone sailors here and there when the price is right, so I have mix of caps and straw hats.
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While we're talking sailors. What's the word on having units with mixed headwear? I've been buying Copplestone sailors here and there when the price is right, so I have mix of caps and straw hats.
In the Zulu War the naval detachments were uniformly dressed within each detachment. If I may quote myself on another thread it broke down by ship like this:
Active: Blue jumpers, white trousers, white caps.
Tenedos: Blue jumpers, blue trousers, blue caps.
Boadicea: White jumpers, white trousers, blue caps.
Shah: Blue jumpers, blue trousers, straw hats.
If you were to follow the Zulu War example then, it would be best to keep the different headgear in separate units and say they are from different vessels. I'm not saying it was always done like that. Can't say for certain it was. But illustrations from the time (such as Egypt 1882) do show uniformity among the ratings (though the officers seem to have worn caps or sun helmets as they pleased).
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Plynkes and the good Dr. Mathias that's really nice to know if I ever get some sailors. I have way to many figures already don't know if I can rationlize more. I will find a way to though.