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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Arteis on June 02, 2012, 06:39:17 AM

Title: Two New Zealand Wars armies for 'Sharp Practice' - lotsa photos!
Post by: Arteis on June 02, 2012, 06:39:17 AM

I've spent the afternoon putting together a photo article on my blog to show off my just-completed New Zealand Wars armies for use in 'Sharp Practice' games.  

Some of you may recall pictures of some of my 28mm Empress figures in the various progress reports I've posted, but here they are altogether for the first time.

http://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/two-new-zealand-wars-armies-for-sharp-practice/

Here's a couple of sample shots from the blog:

(http://arteis.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/brit_inf_close_img_08021.jpg)

(http://arteis.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/maori_big-men.jpg)

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Post by: Hubbynz on June 02, 2012, 08:35:38 AM

Great work and painting on some lovely miniatures!!! Being a Kiwi myself I have pondered purchasing the Empress Maori range to paint up with facial tattoos.....definitively on my wish list.

Great to see them release such a fantastic range on a very unique war.

Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing how this project develops.

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Post by: joroas on June 02, 2012, 08:46:59 AM

A gorgeous collection and it shows that you don't need huge quantities of figures for a good game.  Thanks for sharing.  :D

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Post by: Tellus on June 02, 2012, 08:50:58 AM

Great stuff :-*

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Post by: marianas_gamer on June 02, 2012, 09:30:35 AM

Great collection.  Once again your collection brings home how much I love the Empress Maori figures.
LB

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Post by: Marine0846 on June 02, 2012, 04:51:44 PM

A really fine collection of figures.
Have been following your painting of them.
Just love them. :-*

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Post by: aggro84 on June 02, 2012, 04:53:21 PM

Very nice collection of minis. They look great.  :-*

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Post by: DoctorPete on June 15, 2012, 12:46:59 AM

Impressive work.  The Maori clothing designs look great!  And no complaints about the Brits.   :)

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Post by: Keith on June 15, 2012, 08:38:50 AM

Fantastic work on those - can't wait to see some AARs from your games.

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Post by: the commissar on June 15, 2012, 11:55:01 PM

The Empress New Zealand wars figures are look very nice - size wise do they work with Perry figures? Their Zulu War and SCW figures seem a  bit smaller than other 28mm ranges.

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Post by: Arthur on June 16, 2012, 12:44:24 AM

Depends on what you mean by Perry figures : like most of Paul Hicks' recent ranges, the Empress Maori war miniatures are most compatible with what Alan and Michael Perry sculpt now under the Perry Miniatures banner. They are however taller than the Perry-sculpted various Foundry colonial ranges (especially the Sikh Wars range), which tend to be more 26mm. 

And as my esteemed fellow forum members said, well done on these, Roly   8)

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Post by: the commissar on June 16, 2012, 07:38:25 PM

Thank you - yes it was the more recent Perry figures I was thinking of.

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Post by: Arteis on June 16, 2012, 10:42:33 PM

Thanks for the nice comments, gents. 

I'm now working on the pa fortifications.   The project started well enough, but then the glue failed and I'm back at square one.  So when I buy a better make of glue, I'll start again.

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Post by: commissarmoody on June 16, 2012, 10:54:18 PM

Glue fail sucks. Keep it the project, We are all looking forward to seeing it completed.

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Post by: Arteis on June 16, 2012, 10:59:17 PM

Ah well, I got some 'Sharp Practice' cards started in the meantime:

http://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/sample-sharp-practice-cards-for-new-zealand-wars/ (http://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/sample-sharp-practice-cards-for-new-zealand-wars/)

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Post by: Galloping Major on June 17, 2012, 01:52:10 PM

Nicely done  8)


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

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Post by: Mason on June 17, 2012, 02:20:07 PM

They are really rather nice, old bean!
 :-*

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Post by: efredbar on June 22, 2012, 07:37:51 PM

I stumbled on your site yesterday looking for something else.

It's great. I love the painting style.