Thursday, 20 January 2022

China in your hand 2

 The rest of the Chinese arrived today. Thanks to their previous owner’s excellent packaging they arrived safely and took ages to unwrap. I will set up a grand parade over the coming days but in the meantime a few photos-




Without over complicating things I want to differentiate on the table between modern rifles ( with a nod to ammunition problems as many Chinese units had many different rifles of different calibres in the same unit)  and older ones , melee only units and Western trained ones. I hope to bring out the character of the army. Longer term plans are to get some artillery, jingls and irregular cavalry. There are a lot of figures so I think initially I will make two armies out of them and fight a civil war or rebellion.


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20 comments:

  1. Jonathan Freitag20 January 2022 at 01:28

    That is a nice collection of figures.

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  2. Duke of Baylen20 January 2022 at 07:11

    A colourful addition. Will you use "A Gentleman's War" for the rules or create your own?
    I look forward to you naming some of the characters!
    Stephen

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    1. tradgardmastare21 January 2022 at 07:11

      I’ve never”got” the cards bit of AGW tbh. I think l will be using “BigWars”:by Stuart Asquith with amendments. Funny Little Wars is tempting too but needs more room.

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  3. ronniec20 January 2022 at 08:19

    Absolutely incredible and a wonderful project to develop.
    Ronnie

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  4. Robert (Bob) Cordery20 January 2022 at 11:10

    A great addition to your collection! I am very envious!

    All the best,

    Bob

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  5. The Good Soldier Svjek20 January 2022 at 12:55

    Ooh ! those are nice !

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  6. Brad DeSantis20 January 2022 at 14:18

    A civil war scenario sounds great Alan! It certainly is an awesome collection!

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    1. tradgardmastare21 January 2022 at 07:14

      I do have about forty AiP Japanese for the Boxer Rebellion period which I might paint up as opponents in the future…

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  7. Rob Young20 January 2022 at 15:16

    Like parades. Looking forward to seeing it.

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    1. tradgardmastare21 January 2022 at 07:15

      I am endeavouring to clear my daughter’s art stuff of the table but to no avail as yet.

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  8. tidders20 January 2022 at 17:28

    Lovely figures, looking forward to the parade :)

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    1. tradgardmastare21 January 2022 at 07:16

      Me as well, l have even begun to work out storage for these fellows yet…

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  9. Mark, Man of TIN20 January 2022 at 19:25

    Again, delightful! I don't know how ledgal this full version of YouTube is but here is 55 Days in No Peeking! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJdGxLZ5qzE

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  10. nundanket20 January 2022 at 20:54

    Ooh! That looks a great collection. Can’t wait to see them in action

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  11. tradgardmastare21 January 2022 at 07:17

    Looking forward to it too

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