I'll be honest with you. When I first got the Kansu Braves command pack from Crusader Miniatures for my Imperial Chinese Field Force (yep, The Men Who Would be Kings!), I was not overall impressed. I looked at them and compared them to the excellent Japanese Infantry from Crusader and they just looked plain. Then I started painting - wow; I'm glad that the uniforms were plain once I researched and figured out how to paint the uniforms. Once painted they look colorful and ready to take on the Western Devils (and the Japanese).
Unpainted BKB004 - Kansu Brave Command Group picture from the Crusader Miniatures website.
The great thing about Chinese armies is that you can never have enough flags! The officer with revolver has an open hand so I added a banner which is also available from Crusader Miniatures. The flags for the Kansu Braves are described as primarily yellow and red.
Musician with tradition long horn.
The (Surprise) standard bearer.
I'm assuming this is an NCO or more correctly a leader of "10" or "100", etc. This is a really nice, dynamic figures.
Now it's time to finish the rank and file.
Very nice figures. Often a plain surface allows you more creativity, untrammelled by too much detail. These guys turned out very well!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Ion
It sure does. I was really surprised when I started to paint them how good they looked.
DeleteGreat looking command figures, I can see what you mean about them being very plain in the raw metal bur what a difference once the paint goes on, lovely work on them Neil.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie. As I wrote I was disappointed when I first got them and actually put them on the back burner as a result. What a difference in taking my time and making them look right.
DeleteReally nice work. I'm excited to see the completed unit!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill. I actually completed the whole unit and I just need to take some pictures.
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