The Last Train from JinShui

Shamelessly stolen from the Major General.
Have a look at the original scenerio: The Last Train from Goldwasser, adapted with the kind permission of the author.

Figures

Royal Navy
These are Conesseur Tars.
Royal Artillery
The Artillerists are (absolutely beautiful and quite OOP) old Foundry figures that I was lucky enough to get as singles from Brookhurst Hobbies in LA.
Turcos
The Algerians are Old Glory ACW Zouaves, painted to be Algerians. I think they work (and the addition of the French flag doesn't hurt the illusion...)
Royal Marine Light Infantry
The Marines are Old Glory Indian Mutiny troops painted to be RMLI (and this is early enough that they were still in the red uniforms).
Fane's Lancers
These are Conesseur Bengal Lancers.
Field pieces
The guns are Old Glory British 9lb guns, from their Boer war range.
Ching Imperial Forces
The Ching army are all Houston's Lizard Gryn Chinese from the London War Room (though there are one or two OOP Foundry Imperals, like General Yu and one of his bannermen, thrown in)
Irregular Chinese and Tai Ping
The irregulars are all Old Glory Boxer figures who stand multiple duty as irregulars, angry civilians, and TaiPing and Small Sword rebels. Versitile chaps, what?
See the links page for some of the manufacturers.

Scenery

The trees in the scenario are Woodland Scenics, mounted on pennies and plastic card cut from a shirt collar stiffener, then flocked.

The roads are bits of clear plastic card cut from packaging with model railroad ballast glued on. Go to the scenery section for more details.

The steamer is a wooden ornament, upgraded and with a bow chaser converted from a model ship's gun added. See the vehicles page for more information.

The mountains are real stones, plucked from my backyard, where we have an abundance of granite chunks.

The river is transparent wrap from a dollar store, cut, crinkled and smoothed to provde the illusion of waves.

The hills are made from corrugated cardboard. Again go to the scenery section for more details.

The train is a Goldlok express. I haven't had the time or inclination to paint it so it still stands in its somewhat garish plastic colors. The vehicles page has a bit more information.

The town and ruins are scratch built from cardboard. For more information have a look at the buildings page.

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The Last Train from JinShui

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