Empress/Perry/Copplestone Miniatures British Naval troops (last update)

[Malamute]

Who doesn't love a sailor?

Wonderful stuff.

[Deedles]

Cracking

[Mad Guru]

Fantastic paint job on some beautifully sculpted figures. Thanks for posting!

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

 

[vodkafan]

Fantastic painting! 

[LCpl McDoom]

Very nice work. And I needed Bluejackets too. 

[Marine0846]

Love the figures.
The officers are superb.

[PaulJB]

Naval Brigade are a very versatile force for colonial gaming seeing more action than infantry. I've a couple of dozen of the Perry figures from their Sudan range, love to see how these would scale. Try the "The long arm of empire" by Richard Brooks, a great read with lots of scenario ideas.

Paul

[NurgleHH]

Very nice, Jeff. Do this Empress Miniatures fit well with the Perrys Sudan Sailors?

[Jeff965]

Thank you all for the kind comments, I always look forward to seeing them ( it's my secret shame ).
For Pauljb and Dirk, I don't own any Perrys Naval brigade but here's a photo with a Copplestone Officer on the left and a Perrys plastic Native mixed in. I think they mix no problem in my opinion.
The Empress sculpts are lovely and I highly recommend them. Hope this helps.

[Malamute]

They all look dandy together to my eye.

[MaleGriffin]

Superb brushwork!

The figures are wonderful as is typical of all the Empress Zulu War line and you have brought them to life!

[Captain Blood]

Lush Jeff 

[NurgleHH]

Thanks Jeff, seemes to mix well

[sjwalker51]

Jeff, you'll be seeing some Perry Naval Brigade (and possibly some Copplestone), plus some Empress regular Brits to be painted as RMLI, sooner rather than later.  :-)

Brook's book is very good, and there are plenty of accounts of Naval Brigades in action in the Zulu and Sudan campaigns, in West and East Africa, during the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion, amongst others.

Then there's the earlier actions in central India during the Mutiny, New Zealand and with Rajah Brooke in Sarawak, for which both the Mutineer Miniatures and Empress models are perfect - though putting together a force of Chinese pirates and Sea Dyaks (having read Flashman's Lady) may be a bit more of a challenge but not impossible. IIRC, the Durham Club did a big game using Sharp Practice a couple of years ago...