The first of my Sudan war troops

[FierceKitty]

My better half is away for the weekend, but when she returns I'll see if we can do you a few pictures.

[mike40k]

Nice idea with splitting the poses for the hussars and mounted infantry. I think I'll have to knick that idea!

I paint the patches on my 10mm Mahdists. It's actually quite easy, you really only need blobs of colours in a rough pattern (they weren't random patches). From a distance of a few feet it looks quite good.

As for pictures, I posted some pics here: http://thetrojanbunny.blogspot.ca/2014/06/back-to-desert.html

[Leman]

Wow they look really good! If I wasn't so involved in C19th Europe I would be sorely tempted.

[FierceKitty]

You know, every time I look at a picture of a Sudan game (including my own ones), I'm reminded of what I read when I started the period: that visibility in a great deal of the Sudan is less than twenty yards. It's not a level field with patches of scrub - it's nature at her most bloody-minded with occasional clearings in the swamps, mimosa forest, rolling dunes etc.

Of course, nobody wants to try to construct that kind of terrain, or deploy a model army on it, but it does emphasise the importance of wildly unpredictable dice effects in ambush, shooting, and control. A line of Martini-Henrys can mow down any number of Fuzzy-Wuzzies as long as the ammo holds out if they can see them coming.

[Maenoferren]

Well after a Hiatus I carried on... that is 180  with patches painted on... I hate them... but fear not only about 300 to go and I will be finished  To aid sanity and eye strain I am doing the Egyptians and the mounted British officers before returning to the Hadendowah

[Maenoferren]

 Egyptians finished - the quasi Sudanese are lurking at the back. They are basically late Askari from the WW1 range that were part of my pulp forces I had a load painted so stuck them on a base not the right uniform colour... but hey.....

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/10mm/DSCF1627_zps4fe5d170.jpg

Well when I say finished... I mean finished apart from the base that I completely missed.....

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool

[Techno]

Very nice indeed.
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

This project is looking very good indeed.

[Roy]

Just been through the pics  Looking nice. Especially liking those camels 

[Leman]

Don't join the Foreign Legion then, you might be sorely tempted.

[Roy]

  Nah, I think just the one hump for a camel's enough

[Leman]

 

[Maenoferren]

Bashi Bazouks all but finished.... Well ACW Zouaves...but you get the idea

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF1637_zpsb80a7619.jpg
next onto the Dervish again, well after I finish the British commands

[nikharwood]

Cool