I can't think of a better way to begin than with one of Colonial Adventures' most iconic characters...
No.1 - The Zulu
Excellent start :D
Cracking write up as well :)
Seconded.Another project?
:-*
I had some Ngoni arrive last week.
This may give me the excuse to paint them.
Another project?
Great timing as I have just started painting the great Empress NW Frontier range.
No.2 Flash
Great timing as I have just started painting the great Empress NW Frontier range.
No.2 Flash
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss355/elysium64/003_zps1fb7475d.jpg) (http://s591.photobucket.com/user/elysium64/media/003_zps1fb7475d.jpg.html)
This is the first figure I have painted in over a year.
Hopefully should be able to add a few more.
Brilliant! I've just been down to Darkest Africa, or Peckham as we call it, for some inspiration 8)
No.5 - The Rhinoceros
(http://www.backofbeyond.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nashorn1.jpg)
Ceratotherium simum cottoni, subspecies Northern White Rhinoceros from the family Rhinocerotidae.
(Copplestone Castings)
Young Persephone was a hell of a goer.
Shame that she fell in with a bad lot, the Mosley crowd.
Argonor, you can do a fellow in Home Service clobber if you want to. During the Indian Mutiny the Rifle Brigade turned up in full dress, complete with shakos, and carried on like that for a while before common sense prevailed. The 2nd Dragoon Guards were reported by eyewitnesses wearing their full dress uniforms complete with brass helmets, as if they were seeking to defeat the murderous rays of the Indian sun by the application of sheer bloody-mindedness. So it's your call. :)
This is painful... I'm out of town for a few more days and I have hundreds of colonial figures waiting at home...
Brilliant additions to the expedition.
Wonderful brushwork going on here.
:-* :-*
CV: Where is that fella from?
I love the expression on his face.
lol
The original sculpt is meant to be Mtesa, king of Buganda (Foundry Darkest Africa).
However, as far as we're concerned, he's from wherever the crazy Dane says he's from. :)
Here we go
No.13 - Unlucky Slaver
He´s number "13" you know...
Here we go
No.13 - Unlucky Slaver
He´s number "13" you know...
Shoot! I didn't know! I thought it was a woman. lol
Shoot! I didn't know! I thought it was a woman. lol
Fantastic stuff.
Especially love the Turk with his pearl-handled revolver.
"They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol"
G.S. Patton, Jr.
I don't suppose Plynkes will stretch to 19th Century American colonialism :D
These are the arbitrary and artificial boundaries we have to live with, I'm afraid. ;)
I imagined this little beauty being married to Plynkes Induna lol
Managed to get one in...
I was a teenager in 80s Britain, but I still remember Jilted John. I cried all the way to the chip shop. ;D
I have a particular fondness for his alter ego John Shuttleworth's song about the Hale-Bopp comet, as while it was around it use to guide me home from the pub like some kind of bizarre alcoholic's nativity story. It pointed right to my house when you were stood outside the pub. Damn handy.
I have a whole box of these lads to paint at some point, but shall refrain from clogging up the expedition with the heroes of Rorke's Drift... ;)
Will they be heading off to Mars once they have tidied things up in Southern Africa?
;)
Empress ZW figures painted by Ady McWalter
Pretty sure they're Perry Sudan old chap - I only know because I have one of my own:
http://infrequentwargamer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/british-expedition-firepower-screw-gun.html (http://infrequentwargamer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/british-expedition-firepower-screw-gun.html)
A lovely piece nonetheless - great to see some firepower on the expedition!
Jeez, slow down guys, I'm desperately trying to rush my own entry!
lol lol
Me too. At this rate the expedition will be long gone before I can pack my Fortnum and Mason's Gentlemans Travelling Hamper!
lol lol
Me too. At this rate the expedition will be long gone before I can pack my Fortnum and Mason's Gentlemans Travelling Hamper!
No 26.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cgop8B1XeUU/U5QdSKW4XpI/AAAAAAAAKKI/JeoB__luqNU/w1044-h363-no/P1270373.jpg)
Ashanti warrior ready to seize Fort Christiansborg in the Danish Gold Coast 1826
(Please note I have little or no idea about how actual Asante/Ashanti warriors look... I read a mention of white clay being smeared on before battle - that's it!)
Number 25. A Khivan.
(http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag311/ATJ2/Blog%20Photos/Blog%202014-06-07/IMG_4204_zpsc288dc6a.jpg) (http://s1371.photobucket.com/user/ATJ2/media/Blog%20Photos/Blog%202014-06-07/IMG_4204_zpsc288dc6a.jpg.html)
Perry Miniatures Zouave.
BLOG LINK (http://the-bloggity-blog-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/laf-colonial-painting-expedition-1.html)
Fantasic work all round, by the way. ;)
MM.
That is some of the most saturated red I've ever seen - makes the tunic/kaftan/djellabah/whatever look almost shiny/silky!
That fella is certainly full of character, Richard.
Former Reb, I could buy that.
8)
No 28 British Officer
A young 2nd Lieutenant poses for a heroic picture before joining the expedition
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/1912_08_06_14_5_06_58_0.jpg)
No.24 Capitaine Bloss Légion Etrangère
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d_unKudJ828/U5Nckijd4YI/AAAAAAAAC4M/PAyQLo_Nmvw/s640/IMG_4540.jpg)
Artizan FFL
We sat in the cattle kraal till twenty to one
And now I’m engaged to Miss June Hunter Dunn.
Very nice work, as are all the other entries so far.
the sword is a conversion?Thanks - I'm pleased with how the red came out, I used a GW wash applied just to the creases to get the deep shades in them. With the blue, I wasn't sure if I had gone light enough with the highlights.
very well done with the blue and the red btw
No 33 Big Baluchi Boss
Copplestone figure put out by Wargames Foundry.
This is turning out to be an excellent century.
No.37 - Quatermain vs. Cetshwayo
No.39 - Baron Alfred van der Smissen
As we won't let do Plynkes all the work ... 8)
No.39 - Baron Alfred van der Smissen
Commanding Officer of the Belgian Legion, Mexico 1864, The Maximilian Adventure
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_16_06_14_9_01_22.JPG)
Gringo 40's miniature, sculpted by Sean Judd (?)
Start of a 10 men grenadier unit ...
:)
As we won't let do Plynkes all the work ... 8)
No.39 - Baron Alfred van der Smissen
Commanding Officer of the Belgian Legion, Mexico 1864, The Maximilian Adventure
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/93_16_06_14_9_01_22.JPG)
Gringo 40's miniature, sculpted by Sean Judd (?)
Start of a 10 men grenadier unit ...
:)
Is it awful of me that my favourite thing is the little prickly pear?
It's not that I don't like the rest, I love it, it's just that it's such a cool little setting touch that instantly and almost effortlessly gives a sense of place to the figure.
Damn, i have to paint another (better this time). :?
There is a frighteningly high standard in this painting club. Maybe I'll sit this one out!
No. 41 - Egyptian Officer
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2896/14465656893_724eae79ed_o.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/14465656893/)
eygyt (3) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/14465656893/) von torq42 (https://www.flickr.com/people/torq42/) auf Flickr
I decided this expedition needs more egyptians!
Fabulous, Steam Flunky.
The Sikh is very well done too.
(but those plastic bases... )
:o
;)
No. 42 - Private Frederick Hitch VC, 2/24th Foot, January 22nd-23rd 1879
Empress Miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks.
An excellent likeness of Hitch portrayed by the actor David Kernan (sadly not much like photographs of the real Frederick Hitch :))
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/577_17_06_14_10_04_17.jpg)
You won't get anywhere sitting on the sidelines among the wheezy boys with a note from matron. Doubt any of us are coming back, but a brave last stand and a hero's grave and is better than dying in a sweat in a tent while your piss turns black back at base camp, surely? Get out there and die like a man!
I've forgotten my gym kit too!"
Then you must face the 500 mile trek, the jigger flea, the hungry cannibals, the malaria, the angry pymies, the marauding Masai, the Mountains of the Moon, the Arab slavers, the Four Fountains of Herodotus and the blackwater fever...
...in your vest and pants.
I thought I'd better have a go...
Number 40 - The Stalwart Sikh Sepoy
(http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad276/guitarheroandy/IMG_0051_zps5336ff6b.jpg) (http://s943.photobucket.com/user/guitarheroandy/media/IMG_0051_zps5336ff6b.jpg.html)
This is a Foundry figure. It was painted in my now customary style, on a white undercoat using single layer base coats followed by a brushed-on coat of Army painter Strong Tone dip. The base colours were then used to apply a single highlight before a good coat of Testor's Dullcote was applied to matte the whole thing down.
Plynkes: You really are unaware of the can of worms that you may have opened with Snappy.
;)
No.44 - Last few rounds, last few minutes ...
I hope this vignette isn't too many miniatures. They're 1:72 'Esci' and 'A Call to Arms' British Infantry, with a few chops and re-positions and the odd Milli-put beard. Soft plastic is a pain to work with, but I do like 1:72 and keep coming back to it for some genres.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-36ZEEIN3-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-AJQCMAR7-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-HS8BTUCA-D.jpg)
No.44 - Last few rounds, last few minutes ...
I hope this vignette isn't too many miniatures. They're 1:72 'Esci' and 'A Call to Arms' British Infantry, with a few chops and re-positions and the odd Milli-put beard. Soft plastic is a pain to work with, but I do like 1:72 and keep coming back to it for some genres.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-36ZEEIN3-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-AJQCMAR7-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-HS8BTUCA-D.jpg)
Not a rule, just me being grumpy (Blood gets away with it, so why not me?). ;)
WOW!! :o That's amazing!!
I did a similar thing with 28mm figs for the cover of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy a couple of years ago (I did the Last Eleven at Maiwand) but this one of yours is in a different league entirely, especially being 20mm and all...
Brilliant!!! 8)
(Blood gets away with it, so why not me?). ;)
That's quite lovely Andy :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Darrell.
Please accept this gift to ensure your Expedition is well protected. It was only used once. Unfortunately, the crew is no longer available.
In exchange, I would like accompany you and claim the rights to any and all business opportunities that present themselves while on your Glorious Adventure.
Cheers Cubs, I found this photo and I think I'll go with this for no other reason than I like it :)
Wow :o
That's brilliant Plynkes. You are certainly leading by example on this one.
An appropriately substantial entry to mark the half-way point. :)
We've come quite a way, through swamps, forests and over mountains. Seems like a good place to stop and have some dinner. I hope everyone brought their packed lunches?
Bagsy Snappy as a tent mate! I'll bring the cork screw old boy ..
Hello! Where did you say Fiona was setting up shop?
Seriously, very nice paint job.
it's twue, it's twue!"
So, for you who are British,
What part of the Queen is "Miss Vicky named after?" :o ;)
No 53 - French Colonial Marine.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/orctrader/General/Marine2.jpg)
From Victoria Miniatures
No 53 - French Colonial Marine.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/orctrader/General/Marine2.jpg)
From Victoria Miniatures
http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/product/french-colonial
(http://product-images.highwire.com/2285092/frenchcolonial.jpg)
Sorry about the size, can't figure out how to resize in Photobucket.
this one isn't
Number 55. Private Arthur "Wafty" Crank of Her Majesty's 3rd Foot and Mouth
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r195/webdeak/Darkest%20Africa/Private066_zpsf847c40e.jpg)
Is it a conversion or an actual mini mate?
Darrell.
As you now know, an original miniature. I did, however, add some more jungle stuff with er, greenstuff to fill up the edge of the base.
Victoria Lamb has sculpted other stuff beside the steampunk. Fighting 15s here in the UK carries some of her ranges.
LINK (http://www.fighting15sshop.co.uk/victoria-miniatures-585-c.asp)
No.57 - Mirambo
AKA Heaps of Corpses
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/4060_27_06_14_5_10_14.jpg)
Everyone's favorite African warlord, the 'Napoleon of Africa', Mirambo. This is a conversion I've been wanting to do for a while, based off an Osprey image in Warrior Peoples of East Africa. Plynykes beat me to it, doing a very fine conversion of his own a couple years ago, and mine bears a more than passing similarity to his.
It's not a problem, Herby, but if you want me to I can edit a smaller version into your post.Thank you Plynkes,if you could it would be nice if they were at least half or a third that size.
Plynykes beat me to it, doing a very fine conversion of his own a couple years ago, and mine bears a more than passing similarity to his.
You've finally started to roll them out then Mark ;)
Looks great :)
cheers
James
No.59 Queens Royal China 1856
Gentleman, gentlemen some gorgeous and very inspiring work on show here. Well done one and all.
If you will allow me to whisk you away further East for a short while there is a small matter regarding poppies needing attention
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/1-DSCF0540_zps869306f9.jpg) (http://s176.photobucket.com/user/svennnthedhnut/media/1-DSCF0540_zps869306f9.jpg.html)
cheers Svennn
Mirambo and the Baluchi. Another two excellent figures.
Nice Baluchis :)
Is that a home made tuft?
Home made tufts! Is there no end to your talents? :)
Great idea Mark.
Groovy 8)
cheers
James
Home made tufts! Is there no end to your talents? :)
Great idea Mark.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/163_30_06_14_4_48_47_0.jpg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/163_30_06_14_4_48_47_1.jpg)
I really, really like that hat, what a stonking shading effectThose hats really shade themselves if, like me, you stockpiled as much Devlan Mud as you could while it was still available. :)
So much good stuff going on here!!!
The good Danish Doctor is already a member of the expedition. A more pertinent question would be where's yours, Mr. Bibbly? ;)
I seem to recall some talk of a Boxer Rebellion entry...
Aha, yes, well... Ahem... ;)
Sunday most like for mine :D
Here is my entry :
No 65 the desert tribe spearman
Malingering again, eh?
:D
Bibbles? No. He is probably looking for a tiny bundle of sticks ;) to base with his warrior. :D Sorry, couldn't resist. lol lol
Cheers
Matt
How do I get the icon next to true one I already have?
???
You've got me there mate o_o
cheers
James
Your motivational life coach comment to Pablo in his OW thread. The word he didn't use ;) a word which can be defined as "a bundle of sticks" ;) ;D
No.67 Delhi Maharaja, The Indian Mutiny 1857Fantastic painting.
Fantastic painting.
Face is so full of character.
Yes, you must! The expedition will be poorer for it if you don't.
Very inspirational, thanks for having this expedition.
is it one of those imaginary chaps for t'other side o'lantic?
....Do you like those Warlord plastics? I....
All sorted and no harm done. I'm sure we'll see those guys again soon. :)
Really good stuff on her of late gentlemen, please accept another humble entry.
Plynkes if this is not allowed feel free to delete the entry.
I think it's great when we are inspired to do better by what we see here on LAF. I've always tried (but not always succeeded) to have that attitude rather than thinking "shit, I'm never gonna be able to paint like that, I may as well not bother."
Wonderful work ladies and gents, wonderful work all round.
I remember looking at some of Kevin Dallimore's stuff years back and thinking, "I'll never be anywhere near that good". Then for some reason I decided to really pinpoint what it was I admired and take it one step at a time. I remember thinking the way he painted wood was awesome with the stripey grain showing, so the next model I did I tried to copy it. It went so-so. The next one I tried was a little better and the next, etc..
It's still really odd to me that people look at stuff I've painted and seem to think it's not a standard they can reach. Course you can! There's nothing I do that anyone else can't do, and the same goes for every painter. It's just practice, practice, practice on getting the effects you like. If you could see some of the stuff I was churning out 20 years ago ... yeeesh.
That being said Cubs, you are bloody good! :D
That being said Cubs, you are bloody good! :D
There's nothing I do that anyone else can't do, and the same goes for every painter. It's just practice, practice, practice on getting the effects you like.
It's still really odd to me that people look at stuff I've painted and seem to think it's not a standard they can reach.
It's just practice, practice, practice on getting the effects you like.
Gotta agree: The standard on this Expedition is top-drawer.
Last models I shot pictures of were 1/72 airplanes, indoors, on a table, with a flash, using Polaroid Swinger, in 1968.
I understand swingers were very popular back then.
The Standard itself is pure conjecture on my part a simple black triangle with a red border but does it for me anyway, hope you like him.
am I lead to learn here that zanzibari, sudanese and ottoman slave raiders were carrying banners with them so that tribesmen culturally totally unacquainted to the concept of "flag" would know their allegiance upon sight? In an environment rather not openly sighted? seriously?
heading into the interior from the coast generally bore the Sultan of Zanzibar's flag, hoping it would convey the idea that they were under his protection and that if you messed with them you were declaring war on the Sultanate (European explorers did it too, often carried alongside their own national flagor how am I to understand this?
ignorant savages without the capability to learn,, rather as a culture where the social organization does not require a token to show the power of an organization or mighty leader (in the absence of the power), something that was not necessarily ubiquitous in Africa (of which period are we actually talking here?)
I am pretty sure that the native power alliances displayed other means of reminding their foes of the danger, but nothing like a flag or standard.
so the flags were useful against the other imperialist/colonialist/muslim slave trader (pick the appropriate) powers and less against the tribesmen I was referring to
One a day, please, people.
One a day, please, people.
You're cutting it a bit fine, the rate they are coming in at the minute.
It would be a damn shame though to depart absent at least one of Mancha's marvelous martial minxes in the column
No. 86 Colonel Hermann von Notmifalt
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I have no idea where this figure came from, but I have had him sitting in my 'to finish' pile until this morning, when I finally finished him after I found this painting expedition.
Lovely Jeff965 :-* :-* :-*
Darrell.
Well, nearly there, folks. Last ten spots. Best get motoring if you're not in the club yet and want to be. :)
Small Phil, but perfectly formed :)
Excellent Darrell, I believe I have this figure in my spares box because I only used three of the command figures for my Askaris, I didn't think to paint these up as Ansar but I will now :)
No.95, Sergeant Eaton Beaver, Natal Mounted Police
Bit miffed I haven't contributed much to the second half of the Expedition. I had loads of plans but real life gets in the way sometimes. Oh well, at least it's given other folks a good chance. Don't want to hog all the slots. :)
Where are the images from?
Argonor is right on the money.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/163_30_06_14_4_48_47_0.jpg)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/18/163_30_06_14_4_48_47_1.jpg)
Some really amazing works here, gratulations.
can I add this fellow
(http://i57.tinypic.com/2v0lgco.jpg)
cheers
Why not start this thread again.....?
Darrell.
Why not start this thread again.....?
Say, Another 100 colonial Miniatures Painted. I'm sure that newer members of the forum or folk that have recently got into colonial gaming/painting would love to post up their creations.
What do you guys think?
Darrell.
My personal opinion is that we really ought to give all the boards that haven't had their crack a chance before we think about opening this one up again. Fair's fair.
I think if we have them all running continuously and concurrently it lessens their appeal somehow. If they are all always open then it isn't all that different from just posting your stuff on the boards as normal. I like them as 'special events.' Not that it is actually up to me. I just work here. :)
Isn't it nearly time for another one of these? hint! hint! :D
Probably not going to happen until all the other boards have had their turn (or at least those ones that it makes sense to do so - not sure how a "workbench" one would work).
It's only fair. Anything else wouldn't be cricket. :)