Anything related to the Pacific rim prior to WW1 excluding the US. 12th June 2005

American Western

• The peons wear over shirts, pants, sandals and small sombrero. Bandits wear vest, long sleeved shirt, long pants, bandolier, pistol belt and sombrero.
• Peons with peon weapons (4) One peon standing with a sling, which is held out behind in the right hand ready to cast. The other three variants are all the same body which is advancing left leg forward, holding a 10' pitchfork, 10' spade or 10' hoe before him as he advances. His sombrero hangs upon his back. The hand/weapon assembly on the 10' weapons is cast separate to the body.
• Peons with rifles (4) Variant 1 is advancing warily with a rifle held down low like he is on peace keeping duty. His sombrero hangs upon his back. Variant 2 stands left leg forward, holding his rifle up at 45 degrees as he cocks it in preparation to fire. His sombrero is on his head. Variant 3 as per variant 2 but sombrero on back with slightly different head. Variant stands with right arm held back ready to sling lit dynamite whith rifle held at waist pointing forward in left hand. The foot bandits wear pants, shirt, jacket, boots, bandolier, one holster and the sombrero hangs upon their backs.
• Bandits (4) Variant 1 stands right leg forward, pistol held up at 30 degrees as though taking sight in preparation for firing. Left arm is held down behind him. Variant 2 stands firing his pistol from the hip in typical gunslinger pose with his left hand held over the pistol cocking it for each shot. Variant 3 stands firing rifle from hip facing on an angle to the left. Figure 4 stands firing pistol rih tleg forward, right arm forward, left hand held back at angle with second pistol.
• Bandits on horses (4, 3 horse variants) Variants are firing pistol to right with left arm held up at angle with second pistol. Sombrero on head. Variant 2 riding with left hand holding rein, right arm bent at angle so that pistol is pointing up to the right at an angle. Sombrero on back. Variant 3 is looking right, pointing pistol forward to right, left hand holding reins at waist. Sombrero on head. Variant 4 is riding whooping it up, right arm held up pointing pistol to sky, left arm holding reins up at chest height. Sombrero on head. Casting and sculpting is neat with clear characterisation. Horses are standing passively, galloping, trotting. Saddles have rope on left side, and a pair of saddle bags.
• Refer also Victoriana listing for Saloon Girls
• Powattan Indians (10) (27mm) Image 1 & Image 2 All very neatly sculpted and quite thin (for wargaming figures who seem to eat mostly pizza and solid fat) these figs are excellent historical miniatures.
• 100FAN01 Female Indian warriors - 4 variants with front & rear images shown.
• Saloon girl (can can) - 1 variant
• Saloon Girl (indian theme) - 1 variant
• Saloom Girl indian theme leaning on lamp post - 1 variant 26/3/02
• Saloon girl bathing in iron bath with rubber ducky (missing) - 1 variant

Eskimos

• 100COL04 Armoured Eskimo (4) - pic 1 - pic 2
• 100COL05 Unarmoured Eskimo (4) pic 1 - pic 2 wearing seal skin fur lined pants, boots and coat with hood. He stands left foot forward with left arm held low, right arm held up at eye height with a short 5' thrusting spear. The coat has a longish tail reaching down to the back of the right knee. Reminds me of some old timpo figures. Well done. I assume it is wearing mittens, as the hands are abit bulky

Hawaiians

• Warriors and Elite - 10 variants being 2 elite and 8 normal, armed with barbed spears, war staffs, and knives. eye height 24mm, 2 are elite figures with fur cape and crested helm, or at least that is what it looks like. One figure has a broad jagged edge knife, the other a finer pointed dagger. The first has a quilted loincloth, the other a plain loincloth, other wise they are undecorated. The other 8 are regular natives. They are unadorned except for plain loincloth, in a variety of poses and weapons. Simply the variants are slinger about to release shot, advancing with club, advancing with paddle looking weapon, advancing with long serrated sword, advancing with 11 foot serrated point spear, advancing with 8 foot fighting stick, one advancing with 6 foot serrated spear, and one receiving pose with 6 foot serrated spear. I also received a spare 6 foot serrated point spear and 6 foot fighting stick. Posing is nice, and the casting and sculpting is sound. Sizing is visually appealing, ie not fat or chunky. I can't say the faces look to me to be Hawaiian, but what do I know.
• HAW01 Hawaiian Pikemen (3)
• 100HAW02 Hawaiian Slinger (2)
• 100HAW03 Hawaiian Warrior with hand Weapon (3)
• 100HAW04 Hawaiian Warrior with gourd helm (2)
• 100HAW05 Hawaaiian Warrior in regalia (3)
• HAW6 Shaman
• HAW7 hornblower
• HAW8 warrior with pistol
• HAW09 King Kamehameha
• HAW10 Merchant Canoe, 7 crew and resin canoe
• HAW11 War Canoe

Malay Dayaks

• These have previously been reviewed by Chick Lewis in R.G.M.H., so without further ado, here are my scans for them. 7 Variants, 2 armed with sword, one with 12' long blowpipe, 4 with short spear. 5 have a shield, and they have feather and sword scabbard accessories. Casting and detailing good. Cast on bases.

New Zealand Maori Wars

• 100COL16 British Infantry (5)
• 100COL21 Maoris with guns (5)
• Maoris with traditional weapons (8) - (23-25mm) To go with prior Maori Wars figures, a bunch of traditional maoris with native weapons. The surface detail on these figures is 'rough.' I'm not sure how else to describe it, the surface isn't super smooth like usual Eurka castings. It is the same with the hawaiians and other maori figures. I assume it is the sculptors style. This does not make the figures bad. They wear grass skirts and are otherwise unadorned. We have three armed with long baseball bats (essentially), 2 with stone axes, and three with tufted spear. The posing is ok, and the faces very expressive.
• 100COL17&18 Militia (officer + 4)
• 100COL19&20 New Zealand Constabulary (5) More New Zealanders. Here we have 5 troopers (26mm), 4 in fringed overcoats and kepi, one in basic breeches, coat and dish type hat. They are all armed with matchlock rifle and carry a blanket roll, pouch, knife, and ammunition pouch. One is firing, the others advancing.

Pirates

• Chinese pirate (16) You will spot the odd figure out here. We have 15 pirates, broken into 4 spear armed, 4 sword armed, 3 musket armed and four personality figures. The spears are really two spears and 2 naginata. They all wear eastern 'pajamas' typical of kung fu type movies. The swordsmen feature a woman in long dress with sword, and hair formed up into a T shape. One leader stands in long robe and wields a huge two handed cleaver. He is bald and has a long beard. Leader two is also bald in a long robe. He stands en garde pose armed with two giant tasselled maracas. Personality 'set' three is a jehail team, consisting of one musket guy has a super musket, being longer and thicker than normal. His companion is a lackey who hunches down abit with both hands held up to his right shoulder to support the long barrel. I'd think two of these could also go together with a homemade pole between them with a cargo supported on it. Overall the figures have the style down pretty good and the faces are ethnically suitable. Adornment is all very simple

Samurai

• 100SAM01 Warrior monks Eye height 28mm. 4 oriental bald monk variants armed with 2 handed sticks. They have sandals, socks, baggy pants, shirt and very loose short sleeved jacket, one of which has a hood. Three have separate elbows and weapons as one piece, while the fourth has a separate weapon and right hand. Variants are: 3 of the same pose, being, running at full gallop left leg forward, right leg way back off the ground. One has left arm cast across chest, his separate right hand has a weapon best described as 2 long bits of wood connected via a length of chain. The other 2 have no elbows, one has a hood, one doesn't. The Fourth figure runs with both feet almost together, but otherwise, same upper body. The separate weapons/elbows are: holding long stick with left hand upper grip, holding long stick with right hand upper grip, holding 3 bits of wood joined by 2 length of chain. Animation is good, casting and sculpting is good.
• 100SAM02 Armoured Samurai - (6) eye height 25mm. Five poses based on the same body. This being fighting pose with left leg pointed out ahead, right leg bent and turned to side as in crouching receiving with sword pose. Five arm varianst are  sword held vertical at right shoulder two handed, sword held down forward along leg two handed, holding sword two handed above roght shoulder pointing forward, left arm forward pointing with sword right arm held back, left hand held forward pointing right hand raised above right shoulder sword pointed forward. Variant six is right leg forward, left hand at waist holding scabbard. Right arm held up forward at 60 degrees holding sword pointing down forward. All figures wear banded Japanese armour and helm, and armed with two handed sword. Only variant six has a scabbard. Sculpting and casting is neat
• 100SAM04 and 100SAM03 - Ashigaru (2 unarmoured, 2 armoured) Eye height 28mm. First two are variants on an unarmed ashigaru with long bladed spear running. They wear long baggy jacket over shirt, and knee length baggy pants with sandals. Both wear flat conical straw hat. Sculpting is a little fluid. 2 armoured variants wearing Japanese banded armour, long pants with sandals. They wear the cute box hat with fan tail. Pose one stands with spear at shoulder height across body as though a second row spearman holding spear over kneeling man. Second figure is that kneeling man with long bladed spear braced at the ground with knee and held up at about 30 degrees. Both figures neatly sculpted and cast.
• 100SAM05 Ninja with bow (2 variants) eye height 25mm. 2 variants. Made by Mike Broadbent to go along with a former popular Japanese theme based game, and moved across to Eureka. Both ninjas come in traditional ninja attire, They wear long shirt, long pants, shin boots, cowl, sash belt. Both have a separate ninjato/quiver set which sits on the back. Figure 1 stands firing long bow, left leg forward. Figure 2 running hunched down, right leg and arm forward. Left hand and bow is separate. Sculpting is good, animation fairly good. I have seen much worse ninjas, on par with Old Glory, but not as chunky.
• 100SAM06 Armoured Ashigaru with arquebus (2)
• 100SAM07 Samurai Rocket Launcher (2)
• 100SAM08 Male Hooded Ronin (2)
• 100SAM09 Female Hooded Ronin (2)
• 100SAM10 Casualties (4) One new casualty for this set, being the guy laying on his back dead. He is 28mm while the others are more 25ish.