Author Topic: Empress Maori War releases (Read 3517 times)

Paul @ Empress Miniatures · « **on:** July 15, 2013, 02:47:22 PM »

Some latest releases commissioned by a customer.

Maori artillery in the form of a carronade.

Civillians

All available at Empress.

moonshado · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2013, 03:23:12 PM »

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 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2013, 05:20:12 PM »

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

Hammers · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2013, 05:27:46 PM »

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

commissarmoody · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2013, 06:07:09 PM »

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

Arthur · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2013, 07:41:06 PM »

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 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:14:04 PM »

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 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2013, 08:10:48 PM »

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

marianas_gamer · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2013, 08:55:35 PM »

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 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2013, 08:58:01 PM »

Quote from: Hammers on July 15, 2013, 05:27:46 PM

From whom did the maori get their hardware?

From Empress?

Arthur · « **Reply #10 on:** July 16, 2013, 11:51:53 PM »

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 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2013, 09:55:17 AM »

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 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2013, 10:05:10 AM »

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

Driscoles · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2013, 10:49:08 AM »

wonderful miniatures. Especially the civilians !

Grimnir · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2013, 08:38:01 PM »

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

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