Napoleonic Persians - Westfalia Kickstarter

[Schrumpfkopf]

Camels, big beards and lots of colorful formations.

Please have a look at Westfalia's first Kickstarter campaign.
It's a unique chance to safe some money compared to the prices we have in our regular shop later on.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/westfaliaminiatures/napoleonic-persians-in-28mm

Thanks for looking,
Kawe

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All the best Kawe

[Helen]

Hi Kawe,

Can you provide further information about the Napoleonic Persians? Uniforms, battles, belligerents and references etc.

Good luck with this KS. I love the camel gun.

All the best,

Helen

[3 fingers]

How are the miniatures going to scale compared with other companies?

[Schrumpfkopf]

Hi Helen,

The Persians of the period fought countless battles with the Afghans, Asian tribes, Russians and even the Ottomans.
Nezam I cedid is actually Farsi (Iranian language) and it means new order. The French and later British were providing them with training and artillery and they were scoring a couple of remarkable victories.

What I really like about the Persians is their regular units that have middle eastern items mixed in such as the wide pants and the tall sheepskin hat. They really have a very unique appearance.

3Finger,
The miniatures are sculpted by Alan Marsh and I personally think that his style and proportions are as close to the Perry ranges as it gets. They're certainly less beefy than Frontrank or Calpe.

[fastolfrus]

Do you have pictures (concept sketches?) of the infantry?

[Schrumpfkopf]

Fastolfrus, I am doing the related plates at the moment. I should be able to post the infantry ones tomorrow. In the meantime - http://iranpoliticsclub.net/photos/U20-Qajar/index.htm

[Helen]

Hi Helen,

The Persians of the period fought countless battles with the Afghans, Asian tribes, Russians and even the Ottomans.
Nezam I cedid is actually Farsi (Iranian language) and it means new order. The French and later British were providing them with training and artillery and they were scoring a couple of remarkable victories.

What I really like about the Persians is their regular units that have middle eastern items mixed in such as the wide pants and the tall sheepskin hat. They really have a very unique appearance.

3Finger,
The miniatures are sculpted by Alan Marsh and I personally think that his style and proportions are as close to the Perry ranges as it gets. They're certainly less beefy than Frontrank or Calpe.

Thank you Kawe for your assistance.

All the best,

Helen

[Arthur]

The miniatures are sculpted by Alan Marsh and I personally think that his style and proportions are as close to the Perry ranges as it gets. They're certainly less beefy than Frontrank or Calpe.

It'd be nice if the Westfalia Persians were broadly compatible with the Perry and Foundry Napoleonic Russian ranges, as these figures are likely to provide most the opposition (along with the Front Rank figures, which aren't quite as beefy as some of Alec Brown's other Nap ranges). 

[Arthur]

Only 24 hours in and the initial goal has been reached already with twice the sum being pledged already.

This is definitely going to be interesting 

[Adam]

There's also Brigade Games' (former Victrix) 1805 Russians as well. Lovely figures.

[Arthur]

Very true. They'd work well for the early phase of the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian war.

[cdr]

http://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/persian-iran-qajar-dynasty-army-navy/

this gives a lot of info !

Carl

[3 fingers]

It'd be nice if the Westfalia Persians were broadly compatible with the Perry and Foundry Napoleonic Russian ranges, as these figures are likely to provide most the opposition (along with the Front Rank figures, which aren't quite as beefy as some of Alec Brown's other Nap ranges). 

I thought front ranks were quite chunky ,almost GW build? The ones I got here are don't mix very well with the odd perry or Victrix I have.

[Engel]

Tempting tempting...

I thought I was "done" with Napoleonics but this is so cool.