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Post by Mike Blake on Apr 19, 2021 15:16:05 GMT
I thought there had been some posts under this heading ut the only one which comes up on Search is one of Les Whites which mentions it in passing. I have been working on various aspects, and we (the Glory Daze Boys) have a Narrative Campaign running. I am looking to add some Tibetan Heavy Cavalry, incredibly OOD, in chainmail and all...but they had peacocks' tail plumes on their helmets and I am stumped for a way to do them. Any ideas out there,
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Post by stuparkin on Apr 19, 2021 22:53:28 GMT
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Post by Mike Blake on Apr 20, 2021 11:12:48 GMT
Thanks Stu. Should have made myself clearer (a common occurance!) - it is the peacock tail I am beaten by. I have 3 del prado mounted figures (not that lovely Mongol tho) I am pressing into service...intended originally for service with the Mahdi in the Sudan. They will be a compromise in terms of horse cloths, so a kind of semi-heavy cavalry!
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Post by Mike Blake on Apr 22, 2021 15:28:55 GMT
OK, next up a conversion I've just completed, ready to prime and paint. At this stage the separate parts are clearly visible. Can you tell what it is yet??? Prize for the first correct answer
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Post by jhonpog on Apr 22, 2021 21:40:39 GMT
OK, next up a conversion I've just completed, ready to prime and paint. At this stage the separate parts are clearly visible. Can you tell what it is yet??? Prize for the first correct answer
No idea but nice looking conversion Mike!
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Post by Mike Blake on Apr 23, 2021 8:55:34 GMT
To be fair, it is an 'interpretation' rather than an exact copy, which could be what is confusing people? Since discovering such a weapon existed I'd been fascinated by the idea of making one and adding it somehow to my BoB forces - the Tibetans actually! Now there's a clue...
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Post by 79thpa on Apr 23, 2021 16:53:01 GMT
Great conversion work. My guess: Nepalese Bira gun.
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Post by stuparkin on Apr 23, 2021 22:23:28 GMT
Well the carriage looks to be from AIP colonial artillery set (or Gatling gun set) and the rest......out of your substantial bits boxes Great call 79thpa, I can concur after googling Nepalese Bira gun (having never heard of one before) and here is an image of one Great one Mike
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Post by timothylrose on Apr 24, 2021 12:03:52 GMT
I did contemplate buying one in 1:1 scale when Christian first brought them out - at the time they were cheap and no one really wanted one - there is one at Fort Nelson with the Royal Armouries tucked away under a stair case - I settled on a repro two barrel Gardiner gun instead as it was damn site easier to transport
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Post by Mike Blake on Apr 24, 2021 13:33:16 GMT
wow, so surprised I haven't even thought what the prize will be! Very well done 79thpa!!!!! How on earth...?
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Post by quantrilltoy on May 2, 2021 21:25:00 GMT
That is a fascinating machine gun - I never heard of it before. What period is it and also the Tibetans? Who were they fighting? I am assuming late 19th century or early twentieth so it is really a kind of 'mixed era wargaming', something I do occasionally, like in Frank Perry's wargames with his imagi-nations, but it is not so fantastical after all. As for models, I'd use Italeri Mongols and wire for the head projection, probably with putty added or maybe wire with lead or aluminium foil cut to shape and glued to the wire - very fiddly and vulnerable to breakage. You could also use real feathers (helpful if you have a predatory cat as sparrows etc have some small fine feathers on their chests) or flock glued to a a card or aluminium/lead backing - also vulnerable. You would have t be dedicated - I'd probably just use the Mongols unmodified, except for. maybe putty chain mail additions.
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Post by Mike Blake on May 3, 2021 10:01:06 GMT
It is isn't it! Invented by a Nepalese general in late 1800s/turn of the century, and it worked! They gave some to the Tibetans, who never actualy used them in anger - shame because it might have balanced things more in the British Invasion of Tibet in 1903/4.
The BoB idea spans end of WWI, Russian Rev, RCW, Chinese Warlords, Foreign interference in the East through the inter-war years. Lots of scope for historical and what-if, an extension of Colonial as a Period as it were. Great fun.
Thanks for the ideas for peacock feathers. I may have to try them all! Pal Stu P of this group kindly found some real feathers in a craft shop and sent them to me to have a go with.
The Tibetans will fight the British in the Second Invasion of Tibet (what-if?) and provide a bodyguard for the Mad Baron in Russia/Mongolia (historical).
We have a narrative campaign going, and I'll report on its progress and on figures etc WIP here.
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