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Post by gregorius on Jul 23, 2017 21:32:11 GMT
You've been very productive David.
Cheers,
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Post by macbeth on Jul 23, 2017 22:42:11 GMT
You've been very productive David. Cheers, Yes,
Canberra's winter weather and some upcoming big expenses wrt my (not so) little warbands means that it is a good option to stay at home on the weekends and potter around with the existing toy soldiers and books.
This week I hope to finish off the Siamese - just 24 figures to paint
Cheers
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Post by goragrad on Jul 26, 2017 8:08:27 GMT
Nice looking army!
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Post by Tony Aguilar on Jul 26, 2017 12:59:27 GMT
A shame that the Hall of Ancient Warriors don't have pictures of their figures online.
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Post by macbeth on Jul 27, 2017 4:40:34 GMT
Tony, I'll try and put some pictures up of my Burmese - that is one of his better ranges Goragrad - thanks, I am still way down the totem pole on painting skill and I have conceded that my best days are long past as my eyesight fades and my hand gets less steady. I do find it truly gratifying to finish off an army and know that it is my creation. Cheers
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Post by paulhannah on Jul 27, 2017 5:17:46 GMT
Be sure to report on how they fare in their debut games. So many opponents... Congrats on assembling what has been such an elusive and obscure army. Well done.
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Post by macbeth on Jul 29, 2017 23:25:32 GMT
Be sure to report on how they fare in their debut games. So many opponents... Congrats on assembling what has been such an elusive and obscure army. Well done. Thanks Paul, the old figures were very active in my current campaign, losing twice to the Sung then defeating the Nan Chao. More recently with a 50-50 split between old and new figures they lost to the Burmese in a close and bloody encounter. In two weeks time when they take to the field as a fully rebuilt army I will post a report on their performance as a newly rebuilt gang Cheers
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Post by paulhannah on Sept 2, 2017 15:22:22 GMT
I was all set to do something similar to Macbeth's efforts and start assembling and painting a Medieval Vietnamese army from spare-parts, such as Essex Chinese Barbarians. Then I read this from Kieth Weller Taylor's "The Birth of Vietnam", page 287.
"The men of the Ten Circuit Army were distinguished by the hats they wore. The hats were square with the four sides of the brim coming to a point at the top; the exterior was covered with leather. This style of military hat was still used by the Vietnamese army as late as the fifteenth century."
Doubtless that's why there's that comment in the army-list notes about the "distinctive hats".
So my plans to build this army just went poof! (Almost wish I hadn't run across that scholarly reference.) Oh, well. I'll just keep waiting for Khurasan or somebody to release a dedicated range of Med. Vietnamese.
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Post by paulhannah on May 22, 2019 17:22:39 GMT
Time to beat this drum again. I emailed Khurasan Miniatures today encouraging him to consider creating a range of III/60 Medieval Vietnamese, a range absolutely no one else currently makes. He replied promptly saying, "Unfortunately there are no sources — I’ve looked into it." So, if anyone on this fair forum does have useful source info (other than that bit about the hats I quoted above), please reach out to Khurasan at khurasanminiatures@yahoo.com. Maybe he would reconsider.
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Post by Tony Aguilar on May 22, 2019 18:35:02 GMT
Time to beat this drum again. I emailed Khurasan Miniatures today encouraging him to consider creating a range of III/60 Medieval Vietnamese, a range absolutely no one else currently makes. He replied promptly saying, "Unfortunately there are no sources — I’ve looked into it." So, if anyone on this fair forum does have useful source info (other than that bit about the hats I quoted above), please reach out to Khurasan at khurasanminiatures@yahoo.com. Maybe he would reconsider. My partner in DBA crime, Mitch Harbach, has been wanting the I/49 Vietnamese army for a long time.
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Post by Tony Aguilar on May 22, 2019 18:43:43 GMT
In my Pinterest searches, I did find this illustration...
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Post by paulhannah on May 22, 2019 20:11:49 GMT
I mulled this "Vietnamese problem" over on my run this morning. Maybe there's an easy solution here. Take Macbeth's approach of using plausible spare-parts such as Essex's "Generic Chinese" for the Vietnamese Militia elements, but with a twist: We ask Tony's contact, Rod Felderman, with his Magical 3D Copier if he could create traditional, Vietnamese conical, "coolie" hats for us to plop on their heads. Instantly unique and classically Vietnamese! Wikipedia says such hats have been worn in that region for 3,000 years. (As for that reference above to "The men of the Ten Circuit Army were distinguished by the hats they wore. The hats were square with the four sides of the brim coming to a point at the top...", maybe the way to read that is that, for one brief period in time, they didn't wear conical hats. I can't find any images of such headgear. And this DBA list spans over 500 years, so maybe we just ignore that bit about square hats?) The few elements of heavy infantry, as others have suggested, could simply be any contemporaneous Chinese figures as one chooses.
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Post by Les1964 on May 22, 2019 20:25:11 GMT
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Post by Tony Aguilar on May 22, 2019 22:57:57 GMT
Definitely useful figures from Peter Pig.
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Post by mwise on May 23, 2019 2:03:27 GMT
Hi,
search under Google images "Medieval Dai Viet army/uniform" and you will find better information regarding the uniform type, and in particular the square hat and the cavalry helmets.
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