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a couple of shots....{sm4}

 

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a couple of shots....{sm4}:salute::

 

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Troop roll call....

 

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Signals corps and 4.7 and 13 pdr gun garrisons......

 

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Normally they do not show up at the front and are generally pulling their weight and that of others in the rear...well it took me a while and the great help of Obee to come up with this ALL METAL ....no fancy high tech plastic Steam Tractor paired to a heavy 8 " Howitzer......this baby has just been released for HQ inspection and is bound to the troop ship soon.....The garrison due to some logistics mess up ( mine ) will follow soon.....
I the world of Artillery I figured out that too much had already been dedicated to the light field guns in the great war...so I was fortunate to tap into some sources and get emblematic samples of the great heavies from the British, German and Austrian stock and will with the help of Obee be showing them during the course of 2016-2017.......
Cheers
A_C

 

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Hi All,
Fresh from the troop ship coming from down under the latest Jock Battalion has arrived, this time with the HQs officers.

To be fair there are two Tradition From London in the group, just to show how these two brands complemented each other, they blend very well indeed...
More to come.....And looking forward to taking pics of the whole Battalion together in field maneuvers soon....
Cheers
Artillery_Crazy

 

[David C]

I miss our Empire

 

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These last two weeks and a bit I have been working more like quartermaster than any given armchair General....These weeks were spent working with Obee on the final touches to a project we began one year ago....
Exactly one year go I sat down and started to devise a new dio that would contemplate a substantial supply column. A supply column that could picture it self-winding up the Khyber Pass as well as any grassland of the Transvaal during the second Boer War or even the second Sudan Expedition.... Well I thought that would be an easy task....well not so! First I had to source the mules and the loads...For that I had to tap the right sources of Mountford, Hinchcliffe/Rose and Asset miniature mules and mule handlers..and that is not readily available at your favourite internet hobby shop!....Just that was a logistic nightmare....The mule handlers....I thought this would be easy for I had plenty of Stadden rank and file that could be paired to the mules...errrr wrong.....Obee kindly shed light to the main error many manufacturers do....(Here I list Trophy, WBritains and all the rest...Little Legion escapes the block because they do offer the Indian handlers, and the buyer can order them or not). Obee pointed out that when on overseas duty the British army employed Indian Army contingents to move their supply columns as well as taking part of the fighting....So here I was also sourcing the Indian mule handlers......Luckly after an one year work, Obee plays his magic, and makes the whole thing come true....In this sequence I will show the mule handlers, two Indian mountain gun detachments ( Hinchcliffe and Rose). These two manufacturers along with Mountford in their golden days were the best mountain gun set ups I have ever seen...The mules I will skip showing, I prefer to introduce them to the picture once the dio is set up....

Hope you enjoy this one off set....

Hardly would I attempt saying a second one can be put together due to the scarcity of the figures needed..

Cheers

Luiz

 

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Adding to these great sets Obee had time to come up with some brass both British and Indian.....as well as a nice nurse :salute:::salute::

 

[thanasis67]

Dear Luiz

Excellent figures. Welldone to you and Obee. Who is the maker of the nurse? Nice figure.

All the best
Thanasis

 

[emmerson4]

Great new add ons to the Empire....

Luiz they look great where we're the ones with the flaps on the helmet firing from?

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Hi Thanasis,

Thanks for the compliments.
Obee, may give you some insight as to the nurse´s origin....unfortunately in this one I am out of my depth....:salute:::salute::
Cheers
Luiz

Dear Luiz

Excellent figures. Welldone to you and Obee. Who is the maker of the nurse? Nice figure.

All the best
Thanasis

 

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Luiz they look great where we're the ones with the flaps on the helmet firing from?

These were made by " All The Queen´s Men " an UK Manufacturer that no longer exists...{sm2}{sm2}

Cheers

Luiz

 

[Imperial Miniatures]

These were made by " All The Queen´s Men " an UK Manufacturer that no longer exists...{sm2}{sm2}

Cheers

Luiz

And all those figures from AQM are available through us at Imperial Miniatures UK as castings and painted.


Mike