Chinese Boxers with Mauser repeater rifles

[cheng]

now for some modernised Qing troopers

[henry_martini]

That's the trade off of weapon proliferation.

[conniefrere]

There mRvellous!

[cheng]

thank you conniefrere & Micheal

That's the trade off of weapon proliferation.

henri martini was widely used in Peking 1900 but I'm not sure if the boxers got hold of them in large numbers

[Georgeag1972]

I like them very much.
You are the Master of Chinese customs.

George.

[cowabounga]

As always, a nice choice of colours, and I love how you paint their shoes! Did I already mention that? Yes I have but still… great job!

[cheng]

thanks George and Arnaud!
you have Arnaud, but I'm not too pleased with their shoes still
somehow my masked edges leak when spraying and you can see those uneven lines and I console myself by saying that even PM prints have defects and best of all "someday PM will make better chinese legs!!"

[Hadoque]

Nice ones again, Cheng! 

[playmofire]

Great customs again, cheng!  And I love the way you pose your customs in a dynamic way so it looks as if there's something going on out of the picture which is creating interaction between the figures.   

[cheng]

thanks Hadoque & Gordon!
I hope its ok to post this figure painted by (definitely) an accomplished (anonymous) scale modeller from whom I got this inspiration
...notice his long manchu queue wrapped around his neck (something they often do during (fist/boxing ) fights to get their hair out of the way )
my next challenge is to figure out how to customise a half shaven manchu head with a long hair queue behind still I doubt PM will ever make one so no point waiting for Fi?ures series #10