Turkestan Houses?

[dominic]

This month's Wargames Illustrated carried a report on SELWG which featured a Back of Beyond game set in Chinese Turkestan.  

I just wanted to know who makes these town walls and towers:

[Malamute]

Monolith Designs.

[Le matou rouge]

I'm sorry to highjack this thread but I'm looking for a good range of Turkestan warriors (a bit like the Copplestone Mongols, but more Central Asians peoples like Kirghizs, Ouzbeks or Tadjiks) to play against Russians during 1890-1900.
Do you know if such models exist ?

Meow,
Matt

[dominic]

No problem.
I was also looking for similar models.
The closest I could find so far are Foundry Hill Tribesmen and Mongrel Miniatures Afghans (only those armed with rifles).

[Le matou rouge]

No problem.

Thanks !

The hill tribesmen are great figures (like almost all Foundry) but I think they miss the "Central Asian thrill" if you know what I mean.

My closest ones until now are the Turkish pirates from Eureka miniatures

But il's a no-ending quest, isn't it ?

Meow,
Matt

[gnu2000]

Look at the Herati cavalry here

http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/NWFRONT/3/index.asp

and the Turkoman infantry here

http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/NWFRONT/2/index.asp

I've used these figures as the basis for my Turkoman forces. I've also made a turkoman HMG crew by using head swaps from the turkoman infantry onto a Copplestone chinese HMG crew (with the shoulder straps filed down). The turkoman cavalry are painted in traditional plum-coloured tunics and the infantry in khaki tunics to serve as leview with any army I choose (I just swap the officers)

cheers
Steve

[Christopher]

Steve - how well do the Foundry figs fit with the Copplestones, I mean scale-wise,

[Graven Steve]

I just wanted to know who makes these town walls and towers:

Yes - I'm proud to admit it was all Monolith. The Walling, Gateway, and 3 of the buildings are Chinese, The Watchtower to the rear is Holy Land, the 2 Flat roofed building are Adobe - and the last building - sandwiched between a Chinese and an Adobe is Roman
Any of you wanting models from this picture?

[Mike D. Mc Brice]

Steve - how well do the Foundry figs fit with the Copplestones, I mean scale-wise,

I'm not Steve but I have a bunch of Monolith buildings and they fit very nicely with Foundry or Copplestone 28s.

[gnu2000]

The Foundry figures are a bit smaller than the Copplestone turks. They look fine in different units but might be trickier to put both on the same base. They are shorter figures, but the build/anatomy is comparable. The massive hats tend to compensate for the height difference.

I also have units of tribesmen made up of figures from Foundry (perry), Foundry (copplestone) and mongrel miniatures and these can be mixed pretty well. These were in some recent issues of Wargames Illustrated.

cheers
Steve

[fastolfrus]

I wouldn't mind some more Chinese buildings : any more Chinese ones planned that might be suitable for the Boxer Rebellion ?

[Graven Steve]

Chinese Architecture didn't change much between 2000BC and the early twentieth century, so anything we do is also suitable for Boxer Rebellion - incidentally Ian Heath provided me with a lot of information when I started the range

[Graven Steve]

Fastolfrus - I've just noticed youre just up the coast from me - I'm in Hornsea

[sukhe_bator]

Not sure if I'm committing heresy here by stating that I've been modelling Mongolia/Central Asia in 15mm for the last couple of years. Conversions etc are far easier and the scale lends itself to sweeping cavalry actions and big open spaces. This fantastic Chinese town set up heavily inspired me to spend the following year modelling my own in 15mm.
I've trawled the net for Chinese Central Asian architecture with little success, but have come up with heavily-Chinese influenced buildings of my own, based loosely on existing types elsewhere. This wayside inn is a case in point

I had to resort to scratchbuilding the whole fortress/town over several months

The main thing to remember was that Chinese town walls made no provision for field artillery, only light anti-personnel wall pieces. I modelled an 'Alamo-esque' improvised gun emplacement

Nice to see there are others out there fascinated with the period/region