However, when he showed me some photos of his army and the wonderful little 'Tigermen' he had painted I took the plunge and ordered some Austrian sailors from Blue Moon. When they arrived I was a little underwhelmed with the figures, they were a bit crude and the the rifles especially looked very clumsy for relatively modern weapons.
When painted up they looked a lot better (a little like manufacturers like Irregular and the old Hinchliffe figures). I did three groups of 12 sailors:
A machine gun or cannon and crew plus some single figure bases to allow casualty removal:
For a bit of variety I added some US Marines. These were nicer figures than the sailors:
Finally some armed civilians:
A cursory reading upon the period suggested that in reality there were only 'around 35' Austrian Sailors present in Peking from the SMS Zenta so the force is almost a 1 to 1 representation of reality being 36 figures strong plus the gun crew!
A painting of SMS Zenta:
This dramatic painting shows the Sailors attacking a redoubt later in the rebellion:
Just to finish a picture of Gordon's Tigermen on the painting table:
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