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Offline Sascha Herm

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Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« on: 30 August 2016, 11:48:05 PM »
Hi all,

I thought I share with you pictures of my first ever attempt painting some Victorian era Miniatures. I was given some Sets from Empress Miniatures depicting 1879 Anglo-Zulu War British. Compared to the Front Rank Figures I painted in the last few months, they are really slight and a lot more realistic in regards to poses and facial expressions. I just loved painting them. In particular the "Heroes of Rorke's Drift" Group, were my favourites.

I wanted to create a small Group of stubbon looking Defenders of Rorke's Drift and these figures represent that perfectly, in my opinion.

Please click on the links or visit my website for a lot more pictures of all the figures: http://www.sascha-herm.com/

Here is the whole squad: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW-Squad01.htm



Lieutenant Chard: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW01.htm



Lieutenant Bromhead: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW02.htm



Private Henry Hook: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW03.htm



Colour Sergeant Bourne: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW04.htm



Brothers in Arms: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW05.htm



British Infantry Kneeling: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW-Group03.htm



British Infantry, Firing Line: http://www.sascha-herm.com/AZW-Group02.htm



I hope you like them. Any comments are very welcome.

Kind regards

Sascha

Offline Sardoo

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #1 on: 30 August 2016, 11:58:02 PM »
Brilliant work! Very impressive  :o

Offline MaleGriffin

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #2 on: 31 August 2016, 02:33:47 AM »
Brilliant!!! :o :-* o_o

Superb brushwork!

If you're looking for something else to do, I've got a couple hundred more that need painting! lol
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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #3 on: 31 August 2016, 07:15:21 AM »
Lovely, that red in particular is especially nice  8) 8)

cheers

James

Offline M Blakey

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #4 on: 31 August 2016, 07:45:37 AM »
Absolutely incredible   :-* super job!
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Offline THE CID

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #5 on: 31 August 2016, 08:14:22 AM »
Top job  :-*
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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #6 on: 31 August 2016, 08:40:52 AM »
 :-* :-* :-*
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Offline RedRowan

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #7 on: 31 August 2016, 11:03:54 AM »
They look fantastic.

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Offline Jeff965

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #8 on: 31 August 2016, 11:06:32 AM »
First rate as always :-*

Offline shadowking1957

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #9 on: 31 August 2016, 12:27:22 PM »
Superb work

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #10 on: 31 August 2016, 01:06:55 PM »
Wow!  :o

Offline ARKOUDAKI

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #11 on: 31 August 2016, 06:23:48 PM »
Sascha, getting 'Server is down' messages on the links...

Offline Sascha Herm

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #12 on: 31 August 2016, 06:27:11 PM »
Thank you all for your kind comments  :)

Sascha, getting 'Server is down' messages on the links...


Thank you for that Not sure why.... Seem to be working for me though ???  ;)

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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #13 on: 31 August 2016, 09:03:47 PM »
Oh my God - highlight of the week right there!
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Re: Empress Miniatures: "Heroes of Rorke's Drift"
« Reply #14 on: 31 August 2016, 09:44:29 PM »
Excellent work.   :)

Not sure about the eyes though.  If you look at painters' that "don't do eyes" they seem to use a much thinner line.

Only a minor point though.

 

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