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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: RedRowan on September 29, 2016, 05:58:47 PM
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Some new British for the Cape Wars are now available on the Perry's website.
Steve
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Better with pics you can see ;) :
(http://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/CFB%2013.jpg)
(http://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/CFB%2014.jpg)
(http://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/CFB%2015.jpg)
(http://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/CFB%2016.jpg)
(http://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/CFB%2017.jpg)
http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php (http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php)
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Not sure what happened, they appeared fine when I posted them. Edited my first post to remove the problem links.
Steve
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These look excellent! Besides cape wars, could these chaps be used for anywhere else aswell?
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Those are very nice, consider them bought
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The accompanying notes mention they're also suitable for New Zealand and first Afghan War. Don't know about other campaigns of the 1840-50s, such as the Opium Wars?
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With a little paint and or green stuff, they would be good for Scinde, scene of the world's undisputed best pun.*
*Peccavi
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please and advice from experst on British Army..that headgear is it the same usede by British officers and also men during the Zulu War ecc?....in this case , i would maybe buy those Perry figures as i already own some Xhosas,...and sacrifice one head (cutting it and replacing with a bare bandaged one) and use it on a AZW British officer or a driver for more variety
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Italwars,
Not EXACTLY the same peaked caps, but close enough that if you only wanted to use a couple of them, I think you could make them work very well. They should probably have their height sanded down a bit so they're not as high, but they might be able to pass as 1870s-1880s "forage caps" as is. If you did sand or otherwise trim them down, you might want to slice off the little "pom-pom"/button on the top, and then glue it back on in the same spot -- but I freely admit that's a lot of effort that only obsessive/compulsive button-counter types (of which I am one!) would fret over!
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I'd hold off as the Perrys are planning on doing AZW troops at some point.
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Italwars,
obsessive/compulsive button-counter types (of which I am one!) would fret over!
thanks for your kind and accurate explanation Mad Guru...your definition "obsessive button-counter type" is fantastic ;) :D...i try to think about myself that i do not belong, as concern our hobby, to this category that touch the "nerd" definiton...but in fact the evidence suggest that i fully deserve the definition.... :)
thanks again
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My pleasure, glad to be of assistance!
Apologies for slightly derailing the original topic of this thread, but I just realized Empress already make at least 2 officers wearing the cap I think you're looking for...
On the far right in this first pic:
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gc7s71bc1kc/V_Alh7H8-uI/AAAAAAAAQPA/OKBplod_OLgHlwWfcbh9WCzCZAbkxBbHQCLcB/s1600/ZWB07.JPG)
...and second from left here:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jfdpQwfgMJY/V_Alh0iYo4I/AAAAAAAAQPE/qhwK6XdglLEe_S4okTE6w7yukRO59egqQCLcB/s1600/ZWB58.JPG)