Carthaginian Spanish

 Carthaginian Spanish infantry from Lancashire games

Carthaginian African Spear

 African Spear for the Carthaginian army in 15mm, they are Lancashire games figures and quite good casts.

28mm Roman Shields

 Here are a few pics of some Embossed 28mm Roman shields, I love the Roman Scutum shield but the shields you get in Plastic kits in 28mm I find a little small looking for what i am wanting them for and Lancashire games sells packs of 16 Embossed shields, so I picked a few up and here are the first ones.   I will show some pics of them on the Troopers when I get time to paint them up!

boxer rebellion legate forces

 British marines defending the legate

 British Imperial troops ready to march on the capital.  To be honest I dont like the uniforms much, we should have worn red.

 Indian troops supporting the British march on the capital.  Indian troops made to the balance of the british empire contingent.

 Americans, well at least they turned up.  In actual fact the american troops fought very well during the rebellion but it dosent defent the tarrible atrocaties carried out by them after the rebellion in china.  Although I should point out that most of the occupation troops were infact not the same marines who defended the legate or fougfht in the rebellion, they were new arrivals after the rebellion.  Mark Twain wrote quite alot about the subject.

Boxers and Imperial Chinese

 More 15mm Boxers, a nice mix of civilian clothingto make up the irregular boxers.  Although some of the more experienced bands of boxers were uniformed these guys are the run of the  mill boxers.

 Imperial chinese infantry green jackets, they were poorly equipped with no rifles to speek of so I have them as all carrying halberds as they were usually used as locel security rather than combat.  In the rebellion they fought on both sides.

More Imperial infantry.  This time muslim troops of the field army.  They were armed with the most modern germa Mauser rifles.  Amons the best troops they were badly led and wasted in pointless rush assaults, like much of the muslim troops, who were in fact the most competant warriors in the imperial army.

Boxer Rebellion Russian

 Here are some russian infantry from the boxer rebellion but can be used for any of the wars of the period.

Russian Infantry

 These guys are russian infantry, like the early figures I posted they are boxer rebellion, but can be used for early Russo-japanese war.

Russian Marines

 A battalion of 15mm Russian Marines.  These guys are from the Boxer rebellion but can also be used for the early part of the russo japanese war.

Carthaginian

15mm Republican Romans

 Here are some nice Republican romans.  They were painted for a commission.    

Boxer rebellion

 Boxer Infantry and German sea battalion

 

I know it dosen't exactly fall into the realm of WWI, however with the wars of the period all leading to WWI the boxer rebellion fills this region.  The boxer Rebellion was the first war of the 19th century and was herald of much to come, Stemming from the opium wars and the Sinno-Japanese war the rebellion was much more a civil war, fought between the Qing forces and mostly muslim parts of the Imperial army and the boxers themselves.  Although not very nice people, I sort of side with the rebles, China was very badly treated by the west.  I am planning on building an army for the wars in china around this period, although these figs were part of a commission.  If anyone knows any good rules for the period I would love to know.