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Boxer Rebellion Legation Sailors.....
Austro-Hungarians.........
Germans...
Royal Navy...stock figures
French........
Caps are Milliput or taken from Russian Napoleonic infantry forage caps......I couldn't do much about the rifles.
Nice, quick and easy! Quick thinking too.
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http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01072008023.jpg
Hi Scott
check my picture of painted Royal Navy Landing Party Alexandria, Egypt 1882
enjoy
Regards,
Dave
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Hi Scott
check my picture of painted Royal Navy Landing Party Alexandria, Egypt 1882
enjoy
Regards,
Dave
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Dave
That's terrific. I have saved your photos as a painting guide. Do you have more painted AIP sets from that era that you can show us?
Randy
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Dave
That is great news and I look forward to seeing them [after you're properly rested that is
]Thanks for sharing.
Randy
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Dave really nice. Posted it here for you!
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Thanks Dave
I used to use Humbrol back in the 70s but now try to use all acrylics to avoid having to use strong thinners. I really like the Vallejo paints since you can very easily thin and mix them and the bottles don't dry out.
I wish AIP would do a Royal Navyl Gun set from the Anglo-Sudan era.
Have you looked at their fort from Morocco/Northwest Frontier? I'm planning on buying some of their Foreign Legion figures.
Randy
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Hi Randy
more photos of painted AIP from the last few years
Regards,
Dave
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01012008090.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01012008046.jpg
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http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01032008127.jpg
more photos of painted AIP from the last few years
Regards,
Dave
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01012008090.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01012008046.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01012008044.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/011107042.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/011107040.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/011107038.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/royaldragoon/01032008127.jpg
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Thank you so much. You have made yourself a beautiful collection. Please post more if you have them. they are a great inspiration.
Randy
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Hi Randy
I painted these particular figures a good few years back but if I can remember I based them on the scene from the Lord Attenborough Feature film - YOUNG WINSTON where Churchill was involved with the defence of the armoured locomotive train which was attacked by the Boers in 1900/1901. Some of the British troops wore this khaki drab uniform. They may have been Dublin Fusiliers but I am not sure.
Great film - you should watch it - starrring Simon Ward as Churchill and a host of top actors.
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I painted these particular figures a good few years back but if I can remember I based them on the scene from the Lord Attenborough Feature film - YOUNG WINSTON where Churchill was involved with the defence of the armoured locomotive train which was attacked by the Boers in 1900/1901. Some of the British troops wore this khaki drab uniform. They may have been Dublin Fusiliers but I am not sure.
Great film - you should watch it - starrring Simon Ward as Churchill and a host of top actors.
Regards,
9thHussar
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Thanks again Dave.
I saw Young Winston in the theaters when it first came out and loved it then. I am a descendant of Winston's mother, Jennie Jerome who was an American. As a boy growing up in Connecticut I got to meet Sarah Churchill. Winston's daughter. She was an actress doing a play over here. I am painting the same British set but to represent Omdurman 1898. I love this time period. Below is a print of your subject:
My Brave Irish by Richard Caton Woodville
The last charge on Pieters Hill, 27th February 1900 by the 2nd Irish Fusiliers, assisted by the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Randy
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The Battle of Val Krantz and Pieters
War: The Boer War
Date: 5th February to 28th February 1900.
Place: The Tugela River, Northern Natal in South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Lieutenant General Sir Redvers Buller against General Botha.
Size of the armies: 20,000 British against between 4,000 to 8,000 Boers, as they returned to their commandos.
Uniforms, arms and equipment: The Boer War was a serious jolt for the British Army. At the outbreak of the war British tactics were appropriate for the use of single shot firearms, fired in volleys controlled by company and battalion officers; the troops fighting in close order. The need for tight formations had been emphasised time and again in colonial fighting. In the Zulu and Sudan Wars overwhelming enemy numbers armed principally with stabbing weapons were easily kept at a distance by such tactics; but, as at Isandlwana, would overrun a loosely formed force. These tactics had to be entirely rethought in battle against the Boers armed with modern weapons.
In the months before hostilities the Boer commandant general, General Joubert, bought 30,000 Mauser magazine rifles and a number of modern field guns and automatic weapons from the German armaments manufacturer Krupp and the French firm Creusot. The commandoes, without formal discipline, welded into a fighting force through a strong sense of community and dislike for the British. Field Cornets led burghers by personal influence not through any military code. The Boers did not adopt military formation in battle, instinctively fighting from whatever cover there might be. The preponderance were countrymen, running their farms from the back of a pony with a rifle in one hand. These rural Boers brought a life time of marksmanship to the war, an important edge, further exploited by Joubert’s consignment of magazine rifles. Viljoen is said to have coined the aphorism “Through God and the Mauser”. With strong fieldcraft skills and high mobility the Boers were natural mounted infantry. The urban burghers and foreign volunteers readily adopted the fighting methods of the rest of the army.
Other than in the regular uniformed Staats Artillery and police units, the Boers wore their every day civilian clothes on campaign.
After the first month the Boers lost their numerical superiority, spending the rest of the formal war on the defensive against British forces that regularly outnumbered them.
British tactics, little changed from the Crimea, used at Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop were incapable of winning battles against entrenched troops armed with modern magazine rifles. Every British commander made the same mistake; Buller; Methuen, Roberts and Kitchener. When General Kelly-Kenny attempted to winkle Cronje’s commandoes out of their riverside entrenchments at Paardeburg using his artillery, Kitchener intervened and insisted on a battle of infantry assaults; with the same disastrous consequences as Colenso, Modder River, Magersfontein and Spion Kop.
Some of the most successful British troops were the non-regular regiments; the City Imperial Volunteers, the South Africans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, who more easily broke from the habit of traditional European warfare, using their horses for transport rather than the charge, advancing by fire and manouevre in loose formations and making use of cover, rather than the formal advance into a storm of Mauser bullets.
Uniform: The British regiments made an uncertain change into khaki uniforms in the years preceding the Boer War, with the topee helmet as tropical headgear. Highland regiments in Natal devised aprons to conceal coloured kilts and sporrans. By the end of the war the uniform of choice was a slouch hat, drab tunic and trousers; the danger of shiny buttons and too ostentatious emblems of rank emphasised in several engagements with disproportionately high officer casualties.
The British infantry were armed with the Lee Metford magazine rifle firing 10 rounds. But no training regime had been established to take advantage of the accuracy and speed of fire of the weapon. Personal skills such as scouting and field craft were little taught. The idea of fire and movement was unknown, many regiments still going into action in close order.
Armies in Plastic set from Boer War
War: The Boer War
Date: 5th February to 28th February 1900.
Place: The Tugela River, Northern Natal in South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Lieutenant General Sir Redvers Buller against General Botha.
Size of the armies: 20,000 British against between 4,000 to 8,000 Boers, as they returned to their commandos.
Uniforms, arms and equipment: The Boer War was a serious jolt for the British Army. At the outbreak of the war British tactics were appropriate for the use of single shot firearms, fired in volleys controlled by company and battalion officers; the troops fighting in close order. The need for tight formations had been emphasised time and again in colonial fighting. In the Zulu and Sudan Wars overwhelming enemy numbers armed principally with stabbing weapons were easily kept at a distance by such tactics; but, as at Isandlwana, would overrun a loosely formed force. These tactics had to be entirely rethought in battle against the Boers armed with modern weapons.
In the months before hostilities the Boer commandant general, General Joubert, bought 30,000 Mauser magazine rifles and a number of modern field guns and automatic weapons from the German armaments manufacturer Krupp and the French firm Creusot. The commandoes, without formal discipline, welded into a fighting force through a strong sense of community and dislike for the British. Field Cornets led burghers by personal influence not through any military code. The Boers did not adopt military formation in battle, instinctively fighting from whatever cover there might be. The preponderance were countrymen, running their farms from the back of a pony with a rifle in one hand. These rural Boers brought a life time of marksmanship to the war, an important edge, further exploited by Joubert’s consignment of magazine rifles. Viljoen is said to have coined the aphorism “Through God and the Mauser”. With strong fieldcraft skills and high mobility the Boers were natural mounted infantry. The urban burghers and foreign volunteers readily adopted the fighting methods of the rest of the army.
Other than in the regular uniformed Staats Artillery and police units, the Boers wore their every day civilian clothes on campaign.
After the first month the Boers lost their numerical superiority, spending the rest of the formal war on the defensive against British forces that regularly outnumbered them.
British tactics, little changed from the Crimea, used at Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop were incapable of winning battles against entrenched troops armed with modern magazine rifles. Every British commander made the same mistake; Buller; Methuen, Roberts and Kitchener. When General Kelly-Kenny attempted to winkle Cronje’s commandoes out of their riverside entrenchments at Paardeburg using his artillery, Kitchener intervened and insisted on a battle of infantry assaults; with the same disastrous consequences as Colenso, Modder River, Magersfontein and Spion Kop.
Some of the most successful British troops were the non-regular regiments; the City Imperial Volunteers, the South Africans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, who more easily broke from the habit of traditional European warfare, using their horses for transport rather than the charge, advancing by fire and manouevre in loose formations and making use of cover, rather than the formal advance into a storm of Mauser bullets.
Uniform: The British regiments made an uncertain change into khaki uniforms in the years preceding the Boer War, with the topee helmet as tropical headgear. Highland regiments in Natal devised aprons to conceal coloured kilts and sporrans. By the end of the war the uniform of choice was a slouch hat, drab tunic and trousers; the danger of shiny buttons and too ostentatious emblems of rank emphasised in several engagements with disproportionately high officer casualties.
The British infantry were armed with the Lee Metford magazine rifle firing 10 rounds. But no training regime had been established to take advantage of the accuracy and speed of fire of the weapon. Personal skills such as scouting and field craft were little taught. The idea of fire and movement was unknown, many regiments still going into action in close order.
Armies in Plastic set from Boer War
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Hi Randy
of course your name is a shortened version of Randolph which was Winston Churchills fathers name and one of his sons maybe.
Love the connection - Churchill was our greatest Briton and leader unchallenged. In fact there was a survey over here a few years ago and the British people voted him the Greatest Briton ever!
We went to Blenheim Palace a few years ago and me and the wife were fascinated with the history.
Churchill was MP for Oldham after the Boer War which is the next town to mine.
Regards,
Dave
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of course your name is a shortened version of Randolph which was Winston Churchills fathers name and one of his sons maybe.
Love the connection - Churchill was our greatest Briton and leader unchallenged. In fact there was a survey over here a few years ago and the British people voted him the Greatest Briton ever!
We went to Blenheim Palace a few years ago and me and the wife were fascinated with the history.
Churchill was MP for Oldham after the Boer War which is the next town to mine.
Regards,
Dave
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