Gringo40s Tonkin range update

[gringo]

i will be posting some pictures
of my 28mm Tonkin range...
first up...........

28mm Algerian Spahis in French service
who fought in the Tonkin campaign and
later in the Dahomey War..all these figures
cover both campaigns,...Top paintwork from
Nick Buxey!

regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[gringo]

recent update....working on a set of rules for
this fascinating period...almost done

regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[gringo]

28mm Gringo40s steam launch attempting an audacious attack on a Black flag junk ..all figures and ships available from www.gringo40s.com

regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Inkpaduta]

Thanks for the posts. Great looking line and a fascinating period that does not get much attention.

[gringo]

Inkpaduta many thanks indeed..will post
more pictures.when im able!

regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Rommel]

Received my order today from Tonkin, superb. So if you like this period by Gringo’s Tonkin, that he may  continue to sculpt many years to come! Feel like a kid who got his New toysoldiers!

[gringo]

Hi Rommel
many thanks for the kind comments
much appreciated...will be posting more
pictures to asssit with the uniforms.

beat regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[gringo]

28mm Black flags using a mixture of Gringo40s ching dynasty and our Black flag castings top work by RAFA www.gringo40s.com

regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[gringo]

28mm Harry Flashman in China.........figure available from our 28mm Tonkin 1885 range. top paintwork from Andy Singleton. www.gringo40s.com

Regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Rommel]

I rode that the Black Flag were irregular Chinese and ex Taiping? Could the Taipings be used as Black Flag from the Opium war range?

[gringo]

Hi Rommel....all my Chinese including the Opium War
figures can be used..as time moved slowly in China for
uniforms ,weapons and general military strategy!
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[gringo]

one for you Rommel...French Marine officer
in action Tonkin 1885..top paintwork from
my mate Colin at Trafalger painting services
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[EnclavedMicrostate]

I rode that the Black Flag were irregular Chinese and ex Taiping? Could the Taipings be used as Black Flag from the Opium war range?

The relationship between the Black Flags and the Taiping was pretty tenuous at best. The leader of the so-called 'Kingdom of Yanling', from which the Black Flags split in 1864, was a man by the name of Wu Yuanqing who claimed he was a Taiping officer, but there's no other evidence besides his own word. While their supposed connections to the Taiping had popular purchase (the French routinely referred to ethnic Chinese rebels as 'Taipings' for decades afterward), there's no actual concrete link between them in terms of goals or personnel, except insofar as some former Taiping might have slipped into Vietnam as things went proverbially south for them in China.

[gringo]

EnclavedMicrostate
thanks for your fascinating comments...with the vast numbers of troops
and complicated factions and battles.i was unaware of this guy..Is there
a good book on him and his machinations. i have books which mention the
coming over of the Taiping Rebels ,but its often along the lines of "some"
former Taiping Rebels..a touch of the almost romantic Ronin style warrior.
For me as a manufacturer the Tonkin period holds the greater interest with
the sheer variety of troops on display as it were. look forward to your comments
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Rommel]

Thanks for the info,Ged.