15mm Chinese Part 20 - Elephants & Fire Lances
As part of my purchase from Evil Gong of Australia I decided to obtain three of their Southern Dynasties War Elephants Code EGC5 War Elephant. The elephants came in multiple pieces consisting of, body, head, two different types of tusks, howdah, umbrella canopy & four crew, It took some careful cleaning to ensure that the tusks actually fitted onto the head and each standing crewman had to have their bases trimmed as small as possible to ensure that actually fitted inside the howdah. I painted the crewmen in identical uniforms whilst varying the colour of the elephants body cloth for variety. The Southern Dynasties get the option to use one elephant whilst the Southern Han within the Late T'ang & Five Dynasties list get the option to take up to three elephants.
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| Evil Gong EGC5 War Elephant |
Part of my original purchase for my Late T'ang army was mounted crossbowmen they are primarily for use as mounted infantry elements but the list requires two elements of Mounted crossbowmen classed as Reg Cv [O] so I have painted up two elements in a special uniform to represent this option. They come from the Outpost Wargames Sui/Tang range Code STC8 Mounted Crossbows. These are two piece castings and were very clean. I shall paint the other figures in a variety of colours when I eventually do them as mounted infantry.
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| Outpost STC8 Mounted Crossbows |
The Sung Dynasty seemed to love Black Powder Fire Lances They had mounted and foot troops equipped with fire lances. They seemed to fall out of favour with the collapse of the Sung Dynasty and the Yuan used limited numbers of infantry with fire lances. For some reason DBx grades these cavalry as Reg Kn F rather than the more usual cavalry despite the fact they were also equipped with bows. Khurasan Figures make both in their Sung range. The castings were very clean and required minimal cleaning up.
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| Khurasan SUNG-FIRE-CAV |
Last up for this blog entry are the Sung Fire Lance Infantry rated as Irr Ps X in the Sung list. I painted them in matched pairs of elements which will enable me to swop around the bases depending on which command has them in. The castings were very clean and required minimal cleaning up.
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| Khurasan SUNG-FIRE-INF |
This now brings the painting tally for 1st January to 7th April 2021 to:
185 infantry & 4 war drums [63 elements]
80 cavalry [24 elements]
12 Bamboo & Paper Lions [8 elements]
3 elephants [3 elements]
Plus I have rebased
32 elements of Pikes
4 elements of Psiloi
50 mounted elements
