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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Arthur on January 23, 2017, 08:04:29 AM
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From the Perry FB page :
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The set will be released in about two and a half months at Salute.
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They look very good. Brothers as always pleasing.
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Home Service helmets. Ideal for repulsing the French, Prussians and Martians :)
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just in time for plastic pile stock up! excellent
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Come on Deedles, step away from the plastic...be calm...put the wallet back in your pocket! ;D
Does anyone think that the Twins will also release a box of Zulu warriors in plastic....I think so...they just have to, as you need 1000s of the buggers!
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Love the figures.
Hope the Perrys sell lots and lots.
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Superb as ever...
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Come on Deedles, step away from the plastic...be calm...put the wallet back in your pocket! ;D
Does anyone think that the Twins will also release a box of Zulu warriors in plastic....I think so...they just have to, as you need 1000s of the buggers!
"Fousands an' fousands of 'em!"
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"Fousands an' fousands of 'em!"
Well I will need to do both sides
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Yeah, these are getting bought. Is this why warlord don't seem to sell AZW boxes now?
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Stunning!! :-* :-* :-*
That's Zulu War added to my list of projects. Though I'm unlikely to get around to it until early next year.
Bring on the plastic Zulu's!! Assuming they are going to do a box of them, they will do surely......
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In one of his post-Hamburger Tactica FB posts, Alan Perry confirmed that there will be a box of plastic zulus at some point in the future (Michael was seen working on a Zulu three-up during a sculpting demo in Hamburg but he does not seem to have made much progress beyond the legs) .
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Great news about the plastic Zulu's :) :) I don't mind having to wait a bit for them as I have enough on the go at the moment.
Thanks for the reply Arthur.
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I wonder if they will do mounted and metal support packs as well? Any rumours ?
At present I have BTD and Empress foot (mix ok) but have held off on Empress mounted, which I got a pack of. They are tiny compared to BTD , someone once asked were they 20mm and you do get that feeling..
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I think this has convinced me of my need to jump into Zulu Wars!
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Oh, man, they look brilliant. There were a couple shots I had to look closer at. I thought for sure they were colourised historical images. Perry minis and Osprey rules. Might have to do that this summer.
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"Parts for two heliograph teams are included in the box"
Curious inclusion, do we really need two heliograph teams in plastic? I'd have thought that was an obvious candidate for metal additions.
Although I'm probably just looking for reasons to resist this :D
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The heliograph team is included in the command sprue, and there are apparently two command sprues per set, thus two heliograph sets (plus four casualties).
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As can be seen from the sprue pic, the heliograph is just two parts, and takes relatively little sprue space. Plus the arms for the heliograph team (holding binoculars, writing notes, open hands) can be used for a lot of other possible uses: officers observing positions, war correspondents writing notes, sergeants gesticulating wildly etc.
And of course there are the other arm options (swords, pistols, rifles, bugler, standard) in case you want to have something more martial looking than a heliograph team or war correspondent. As far as I can tell, there are 20 arms in total on the command sprue (plus you also get extra rifle arms in the line grunt sprue).
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I know little so I'm gonna ask.
What's home service? I love the pointy spikey heads :p
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When the troops are based in Blighty...
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The Home Service Helmet was the new full dress helmet introduced in 1878 (replacing a somewhat ugly squat-looking shako). I don't believe it was ever worn in action, so it might seem like it doesn't have much use for modellers outside of a diorama of a parade or something. However its inclusion is a popular one because it's a nice thing to have your chaps wearing if you are a VSF gamer and Martian cylinders start landing on your lawn and the slug-like beings contained therein start building tripods and generally fucking up everyone's shit in the Home Counties region.
Most but not all infantry units wore this helmet as their full dress headgear. The exceptions were the Guards (bearskin), Highlanders (feather bonnet or diced shako depending on regiment), Fusiliers (Seal or Racoon-skin cap - a busby-like affair that looked halfway to being a bearskin) and Rifles (busby).
The more familiar white/tea stained helmet seen in action was called the foreign service helmet.
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Cool. Would this uniform and helmet be suitable for well armed Victorian police?
Though I may use some to mark more "veteran" units in zulu
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Well the uniform is similar to a policeman's one. But they're carrying too much military gear to really pass as policemen (unless we're talking about Zulu War units of Mounted Police, but you'd be better off getting dedicated figures for those - Empress do them, others probably do too).
On the rare occasion you see a Victorian or Edwardian policeman with a firearm, it tends to be a shotgun.
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Of course, that depends on which part of the empire you're referring to.
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Indeed. I meant to say "too much military gear to really pass as UK policemen", but that part got forgotten in the act of typing.
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The Home Service Helmet was the new full dress helmet introduced in 1878 (replacing a somewhat ugly squat-looking shako). I don't believe it was ever worn in action, so it might seem like it doesn't have much use for modellers outside of a diorama of a parade or something. However its inclusion is a popular one because it's a nice thing to have your chaps wearing if you are a VSF gamer and Martian cylinders start landing on your lawn
It might also be a useful piece of equipment when confronting the occasional Victorian zombie infestation on the outskirts of Surrey etc. since it means that there is an extra spikey bit between the zombie and your brains.
Other feasible what-if scenarios might involve:
1.) Yet another Irish rebellion
2.) An uprising by extremely hardcore Jacobite highlanders
3.) Miners in Wales accidentally discovering underground caves inhabited by a rather annoyed race of ancient lizardmen or frogmen, who emerge aboveground to wreck havoc
4.) Surprise landing by the Preussian Zeppelin Corps airlanding infantry, intent on robbing some outstanding example of British science (for example a prototype of a revolutionary new tea pot)
5.) R'lyeh rising out of the sea outside Dover, with great Cthulhu emerging out to feast on an assortment of tourists admiring the white cliffs, until the brave men off the Foot and Mouth regiment drive him away with bayonets ("They don't like it up 'em"). Tea and scones will be served afterwards for the survivors.
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One would hope the Royal Navy could deal with Great Cthulhu. If Tommy Atkins' services were required things would have come to a pretty pass. :)
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Royal Navy might give the Great Chtulhu a proper spanking, but if you want to use Perry models for the senior service then you need to look for the metals range.
Back to the topic, besides the home and foreign service helmets, the "firing line" sprue seems to contain a binch of heads without helmets for some variety:
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the spiked home service helmet could be used, maybe, together with a slightly modified ACW Perry Plastic rider to obtain a Natal Mounted Police or similar uniformed AZW paramilitary/volunteer horseman
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It's certainly a useful addition if you fancy defending Fort Queenscliff from an imaginary Russian invasion.
Apro pos of nothing, I wonder if the Perry twins could be convinced to do a range for the Burma Wars? They've tackled more obscure topics. Their Plastic box for Sudan would work for the Third War. Bits and bobs from various Mutiny ranges would suffice for the Second and headswaps to their Napoleonics would cover the First. The missing factor is a decent range of Burmese, particularly musket armed troops, which made up to 50% of their army in some engagements in the First War.
I have some lovely framed prints of the First War and it's a strangely absent topic for gaming. All the exotica you could imagine. Teak stockades that recall the Maori Pa, jungle warfare, riverine combat, lots of temples that give folk the chance to use their fish tank scenery and Buddha statues. There are exotic uniforms, rockets and well elephants.
If they can do the Cape Wars, which are small beer by comparison........
One can but dream.
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To be honest, the Home Sevice helmets were the only reason I was considering buying this set when it was first previewed! The aforementioned Last Jacobite rising was mooted in my head as the reason...
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Agreed!
I wonder if there's any chance they will do some metals to supplement the Home Service in plastic? Would love to see them do three packs each of Guards, Highlander's, Rifles, etc...
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There will certainly be Zulu War metals to complement the figures in foreign service helmet - the twins confirmed it on their Facebook page. They haven't said anything about the Home Service uniform variants though.