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Title: Empress Hello Sailor
Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on January 11, 2013, 09:15:55 AM: We have just released some packs of 1840's sailors which are useful for many conflicts in the 1840's and 1850's possibly further.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/NZ17_zps71a91cb9.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/ZW16_zps671d0f5a.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/NZ18_zps6d3ef035.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/32pdr01b_zps60b3e537.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/32pdr02_zpseb9184bb.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/32pdr03_zps12e0c438.jpg)

Hope you like ;)
Paul
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Post by: joroas on January 11, 2013, 09:40:00 AM: Absolutely gorgeous.
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Post by: Furt on January 11, 2013, 09:57:59 AM: Great poses, typical of Empress! Full of character and very useful.
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Post by: Captain Blood on January 11, 2013, 10:23:34 AM: Wow, brilliant...
Just wondering if I can get away with these alongside my Brigade Games Napoleonic sailors also by the excellent Mr Hicks... ::)
So near and yet so far in some ways... :?
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Post by: pocoloco on January 11, 2013, 10:31:04 AM: Beautiful, especially loving the great poses and the wood grain on the cannon carriage.
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Post by: Sterling Moose on January 11, 2013, 11:02:57 AM: Wow!!! :o

These would do perfectly for a Battle of Ridgeway game Burnt65 and I have planned for our local Con at the end of March. OK, I know the Dunville Naval Brigade fought at Fort Erie, not Ridgeway but what if.....................

I see a possible Battle of Fort Erie game on the horizon!!
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Post by: Big Martin on January 11, 2013, 01:08:38 PM: Ooh - will have to think about my "Dyaks" project again. :)
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Post by: DoctorPete on January 11, 2013, 02:35:45 PM: :-* :-* Oooooo...these are gonna be hard to resist.
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Post by: Malamute on January 11, 2013, 02:45:03 PM: Very nice. ;D I reckon that command pack might even see service in Texas. ;) :)
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Post by: Calimero on January 11, 2013, 02:45:18 PM: Quote from: DoctorPete on January 11, 2013, 02:35:45 PM
:-* :-* Oooooo...these are gonna be hard to resist.

Indeed! Very nice figures 8)
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Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on January 11, 2013, 04:00:17 PM: Excellent stuff! I think they may be posted to Byklabad in due course...
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Post by: The Dozing Dragon on January 11, 2013, 04:10:48 PM: Definite pick up for Salute. Superb.
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Post by: huevans on January 11, 2013, 05:40:16 PM: I am guessing that there is a pack of officers still to come?

Lovely. But I wonder what I would use as opponents?
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Post by: Marine0846 on January 12, 2013, 02:11:22 AM: More great looking figures.
It's going to make a big dent in my pocket book
when I order all the figures I want. ;D
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Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on January 12, 2013, 10:09:00 AM: Thanks everyone.

And don't forget that the infantry in the Maori Range make perfect Royal Marines. ;)
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Post by: Captain Blood on January 12, 2013, 10:12:30 AM: What is the firearm the jolly tars are portrayed with? It almost looks like a rifle with a percussion lock... ???
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Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on January 12, 2013, 10:39:46 AM: Based upon the 1839 Tower conversion percussion musket. First percussion musket issued to HM forces.
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Post by: Captain Blood on January 12, 2013, 02:20:15 PM: Ah, thank you :)

Pretty much rules them out as companions for my Brigade Napoleonic British tars though... :'(
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Post by: huevans on January 12, 2013, 05:29:56 PM: Re exotic skirmish gaming, when I saw these figures, I thought about the episode in "Flashman's Lady" where Flashman and James Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak fight the River pirates. Still one of the most exciting Flashman battles I have read.

hint, hint.....
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Post by: Captain Blood on January 12, 2013, 06:05:14 PM: Me too. Stamp and slash...
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 12, 2013, 07:52:32 PM: Superb! These look just the ticket for battling Dayaks or surpressing slavery in West Africa. Top marks Empress!
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Post by: Marine0846 on January 12, 2013, 09:09:31 PM: Well, I went and ordered some figures yesterday.
They were to nice to resist.
Now I will see how long it takes to get them to Oregon, USA.
No pressure, Empress. ;)
The pressure will be, how long will it take me to paint them. lol
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Post by: sjwalker51 on January 12, 2013, 10:24:52 PM: I can think of no better company to produce a "Rajah Brooke" range to supplement the limited number of 28mm dyaks etc already available - including a Flashman/Elspeth/"Soloman Haslam" character pack, of course...

Another HINT HINT...
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Post by: Elbows on January 12, 2013, 10:30:28 PM: Incredible...so (mind blanking) what were some good conflicts going on around the time frame? Do these match up with your NZ wars stuff?
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on January 12, 2013, 10:31:13 PM: Quote from: sjwalker51 on January 12, 2013, 10:24:52 PM
I can think of no better company to produce a "Rajah Brooke" range to supplement the limited number of 28mm dyaks etc already available - including a Flashman/Elspeth/"Soloman Haslam" character pack, of course...

Another HINT HINT...

THIS I support most emphatically!
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Post by: Blackwolf on January 12, 2013, 10:39:11 PM: They are nice,very nice :-*
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Post by: Elbows on January 12, 2013, 10:48:50 PM: Oh...damn, I hadn't even thought of Flashman...OHHH yes...yes please! :-*
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 12, 2013, 10:55:32 PM: Quote from: Elbows on January 12, 2013, 10:30:28 PM
Incredible...so (mind blanking) what were some good conflicts going on around the time frame? Do these match up with your NZ wars stuff?

Perfect for pushing narcotics on the Chinese (Opium Wars). West Africa Slavery Patrols etc.

Because these are broadly suitable for the late 1820s through to the late 1840s they could be used any number of smaller conflicts like the British occupation of Aden, Piracy patrols in the South China Sea, the first Burma War, various Cape conflicts etc, etc, etc. Very useful figures and you could supplement them with various Napoleonic ranges.
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Post by: huevans on January 13, 2013, 03:41:50 PM: If both ranges are sculpted by Paul Hicks, presumably these can be mixed and matched with the Mutineer Miniatures IM range. That would give more civilians and Indian troop types.
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Post by: Maichus on January 13, 2013, 04:55:27 PM: Very nice as one has to come to expect from Mr. Hicks. ;)

Quote from: huevans on January 13, 2013, 03:41:50 PM
If both ranges are sculpted by Paul Hicks, presumably these can be mixed and matched with the Mutineer Miniatures IM range. That would give more civilians and Indian troop types.

Isn't Mike Owen the sculptor of the Mutineer Miniatures range? :?
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Post by: Arthur on January 13, 2013, 05:03:43 PM: Yes, the Mutineer India range was Mike Owen's work.
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Post by: huevans on January 13, 2013, 08:40:52 PM: Ooops, my bad! :o

I wonder if the two ranges are compatible.