Perry Mahdist Baggara Horse

Finished over the last month or so but purchased Salute 2010 one each of the Perry miniatures Mahdist horse. The flag is from the Grimsby Wargames club web site.

 

 

Liebster Blog Award.

Many thanks to Legatus for nominating us for a Liebster Blog Award!

The rules of the Liebster Blog Award are as follows -

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog linking it to the blogger who has given it to you.

2. Pass the award to your top 5 favourite blogs with fewer than 200 followers by leaving a comment on one of their posts to notify them that they have won the award and listing them on your own blog.

3. Sit back and bask in that warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing that you have just made someone's day!

So, here's 5 from us -


1. AJ's Wargames Table - lots of good Colonial stuff.


2. Campaigns of General William Augustus Pettygree - more colonial fun, with a fantastic narrative storytelling style.


3. Savage Timmy's Playhouse - a constant favourite for 'adventure' tabletop gaming.


4. Somewhere the Teas Getting Cold - too many Oldhammer sites to choose from but Thantsants has one of the best! Lovely painted miniatures, great scenery, excellent stories and pictures and good old school fun!


5. The Nothelm Chronicle - a fab Dark Ages blog. The Nothelm Chronicle is little known Anglo-Saxon chronicle recorded by Brother Nothelm of the abbey of Wuduceastre. Describing the life and times if the King's Eoldermen Rodor and Beornwulf 'the Bold'; including relations with their overseas cousins and voyages of adventure to foreign lands.

There you have it - check these sites out, they are well worth following!

Last Post of the year and some Masai

Just a final picture of the year of my first unit of 10 Masai, complete besides adding a bit of grass to the bases.

I was hoping to attach a picture of my new 12 man Mahdist horse but I still have 4 riders to finish so hopefully next month.

For 2012 of the 105 figures I painted 41 were colonial so a reasonable percentage given my low output this year. Of the 105, 46 were painted in the last 3 months so the beginning of the year had been very slow.

My intention for 2013 is to paint up the last 40-50 Mahdist foot I have including the perry plastics set which should give me enough figures to run a fairly big battle and add the option of buying some Egyptians to support my Brits. Of course I also want to finish the Masai so a lot to do.

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Zanzibar Slavers.

Faraj Al-Dosari and his foul slaver followers.

Maarouf Alzeshi and Faraj Al-Dosari (with pet monkey Bashir)

The "Butcher of Murogo", Falakee Al-Fayyoumi and men.

Figures are Foundry.

British Askari.

A unit of British Askari ready to join the Hon. Cecil Cathcart Marchbanks on his new expedition.

Sergeant Baako presents his troops.

Figures are Foundry.

The European Explorers.

The European adventurers and explorers finally set foot on African soil...

Captain Thomas Henry Abel and his guide Kimani.

Mbasogo, Sir Archibald Dreaton and renowned hunter Merle Caspar.

Major Sir Cornelius Hedney and assistants.

Dutch guides Klaus Voorheim and Piotr Witzenfeld. 

 Figures are Foundry.

Next - British Askari.

Tiger Miniatures and more Germans

Finished painting up some Askari with a field gun bought 2 or 3 years ago at the woolwich show. The figures are Tiger Miniatures which are better in the flesh than their website gives them credit. The range for colonial purposes is mainly limited to WW1 era German troopers but I am tempted to buy some more when and if I ever decide to expand into WW1 in Africa. Of particular interest is the Askari mule train as you can never have too much baggage.

The askari mountain gun and 3 crew that I have painted up very easily. I tried to match a colour that Mark has on a section of Askari he bought. My final choice was GW Desert Yellow washed with Devlin mud and highlighted up with Desert Yellow. A quick painjob but very effective. Just need to finish the gun.

Some good historic pictures of geman askari here.

As Mark has just posted his German, here are mine

The Red Skull converted from a Belgian and a GW plastic skeleton head.

His Venusian servant carrying the imperial colours (an old Rafm Cast, I would like more of these if still available)

Copplestone Officers

German Askari bring home slaves for the Skull

German Askari forward to war.