Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2020

Maori wars

Last month I worked in my uniform-archive on British infantry uniforms between 1855 and 1873. Wow, this was a challenge with the Mutiny and other colonial wars....

But my interest in the period grow. I remember my friend Donald asking for a range of Maori wars figures. 

In my archive I found these photos, I've safed from Frank's blog. Check the link, there are many other photos on the subject. Also Frank's other posts are very interesting. Ok, it is in Germany, but with a google translator it works in English too. And the photos are good:-)

And here we have a  blue British army...






8 Kommentare:

  1. Dieses Blog ?
    https://tabletopdeutschland.com/2014/03/17/national-army-museum-neuseeland-teil-1/

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    1. Hi Paul,

      thanks for the link, yes it was this one. I have also the photos of the uniforms in my archive.

      cheers
      Uwe

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  2. Interesting post and attractive figures
    I wrote a couple of posts on Maori Wars here: https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/tag/maori-wars/

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    1. Hi Mark,

      thank you for the link, you did a good job. I will work myself through your posts:-)

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  3. The pictures look similar to some of the displays at the Tawhiti Museum not far from Hawera township in New Zealand. The coastal area between Hawera and Whanganui was the scene of Titikowaru's campaign against the New Zealand settlers. By this time the regular British army had departed; the colonials having replaced it pretty much with their own forces, including Maori allies (e.g. in the campaign just mentioned, Whanganui Maori fought on the Settlers' side).

    The Tawhiti Museum (which I visited about 10 months ago) has the following websites:
    www.tawhitimuseum.co.nz
    www.tradersandwhalers.co.nz

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  4. Wow absolutely incredible. You don't see many miniatures related to the land wars. I have been to Rangiriri which was the Pa (fort) where the climactic siege of the Waikato Wars took place. Not much today remains to commemorate the war. Would love to know about these dioramas.

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  5. I think these might be photos from a museum in Taranaki (Tawhiti Musuem?).

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  6. Hi guys,

    thanks for all your comments. I think, Maori wars are an interesting idea for a future figure production. I also found a trailer on youtube and asked the Newzeeland ambasy in Germany if they could tell me about the movie.

    They gave me this link, where you could watch a complete series about the war online:

    https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-governor-episode1-1977

    Have fun with it!

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