Empress Maori War releases

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Some latest releases commissioned by a customer.

Maori artillery in the form of a carronade.



Civillians



All available at Empress.

[moonshado]

Some very nice releases( these and your afghans), guess those civilians will be appearing all over the Victorian world not to mention Victorian Mars and Venus

[Juan]

They are wonderful figures, wonderful. And that carronade is GREAT!!!

[Hammers]

Loads of character. From whom did the maori get their hardware?

[commissarmoody]

If memory serves, they got most of there hard wear from the British. Mostly through trade actually.

[Arthur]

Lovely figures indeed. And those civilians are indeed quite multi-purpose.

Would be nice if at some point Paul did a half-crazed ex-farmer bent on vengeance and armed with a four-barrelled shotgun (well, he did those movie versions of the Rorke's Drift characters after all, didn't he ?)     

[Matakakea]

Now that carronade is just what I've been wanting! That will save me a lot of conversion work
How about an officer with a pepperbox as well???

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Wow, what a bunch of emotions immortalised using some lead. Great work, guys!

[marianas_gamer]

Really nice minis and GREAT carronade.  Along the Kona coast of the big island of Hawaii there are many petroglyphs of ships and ordnance from the early 19th c..  I remember finding a nice petroglyph of a carronade within the pu'uhonua at Honaunau when I worked there. I wonder how well the carronade would go with the Eureka Hawaiians?
LB

[fastolfrus]

From whom did the maori get their hardware?

From Empress?

[Arthur]

Found the video I was looking for the other day :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmyNqO6LAvQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmyNqO6LAvQ

Admittedly a slightly later period (1860's) than the Empress range, but would still make for a distinctive character figure.

[Arteis]

Ordered tonight.  How could I resist?!

Here are some references to Kawiti's carronade:
http://riv.co.nz/rnza/hist/local/kawh.htm
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/Cow01NewZ-fig-Cow01NewZ079a.html
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=51011

[HerbyF]

These are great. I really like the woman with the Pepperbox. 

[Driscoles]

wonderful miniatures. Especially the civilians !

[Grimnir]

Funtastic new miniatures. It's nice to see the range being continued.