A Ming Chinese project

Since a year I am following Rayloryan's posts about his Ming Chinese army at Benno's forum.
My mate Thomas who is working on his own range of the Ming army gave me the link.

Wow this sculpting is really impressing! I hope he find a caster who helps him produce the figures (and me to buy them:-))

Please check the link to see a lot of photos, both of masters and historical research.

Here a selection of photos from Benno's forum:

Ming-Chinese to fight our Japanese

To have a good start into a new week full of work I thought I show you some more of our news.
Here our friend Leonardo (Phersu) sculpted some more enemies for our Japanese.

All in all there are more than 30 Ming-Chinese troops in the pipeline to help the Koreans fighting the invaders. Here photos of the first three sculpts Strange what can happen to medieval artillerymen:-)

And again the Chinese

Much more information on the Chinese armies I put on Bennos forum. Here the link.

Massimo also put the latest photos from his figures there too.  I can't wait to paint these figures, again something sooo obscure :-))


http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=15686&p=175580#p175580

More information on the chinese army

The army for which the figures are made are for the Quing Dynasty .

Read more about it at Wikipedia.
The army is called the "Eight-Banners-Army" and they had a regular uniform like this :

Caesar already made figures for this army too. The details of the set you can see at
the great Plastic soldier review side.

In my eyes the best range about this army is King & Country in 54mm which is available here.
And here some photos which I took from Ebay

Don't you agree these guys are colourful? :-))

Chinese Infantry 19th century

Some weeks ago I have seen a master for a 54mm figure of a Chinese musketeer in the Opium-war.

This figure impressed me so much that I thought it would be a great thing to have a little colourful army myself. You know I am always after such obscure stuff:-))

So I made a little research and found out that this kind of uniform is useful for several campaigns of the Chinese army like the Opium war and the Taiping war (including the campaign against the French and British). What I liked most was the information about the Sino-Sikh war of 1841/42.

With the Sikhs already my colonial favourites I thought this is a must!! :-))

See here what Massimo made for me

As for uniforms take a look at this 1805 painting.