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Title: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: Lord Raglan on September 19, 2018, 09:06:26 PM: Darkest Africa scenery is pretty done and the miniature painting is well underway:

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0BVJbA9-sFc/W4XBOFqXILI/AAAAAAAAL0A/eiqwgWqwhB4oufz2OTNB8kSYsO8YpGgowCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25281%2529.jpg)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NWIdPWQSFFc/W4XBPRW5vKI/AAAAAAAAL0Y/rCqt9D4h9MsrJlUTW17hbkAg73pBYkstgCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252815%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ImelsaH4fg/W4XBOPaMX6I/AAAAAAAAL0E/s0YV0aLn6J00gGUqRvZ5PUZnF51oAMFXQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252811%2529.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cWUGGsFyYdQ/W4XBQi0SBwI/AAAAAAAAL0k/NvABmdKJZ7kj7TBE0VPTAI2z2FXEguTNwCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25288%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bK0GSKlWudw/W4XBQlx1TVI/AAAAAAAAL0o/KSfEWVHxtSgPY5v-DqcraBu5t1LxsqbUQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25289%2529.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Lord Raglan on September 19, 2018, 09:08:24 PM: (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5gFnrxWc510/W4XBOOrGfII/AAAAAAAAL0I/_oJvNss-JNoftf_rRH1zoZkVBxrxZFKvgCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252810%2529.jpg)

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M_kOW6WIX_U/W4XBPWL0xiI/AAAAAAAAL0U/11kJRrVYVZElhxVaDz0qIgRGW98PLA6igCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252814%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LqDtGKSUcvY/W4XBPIwdqBI/AAAAAAAAL0Q/CrBw1UsfGy028e0SqyrkJ3Af_-JTgD-xACLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252813%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CC5W8JUwnbA/W4XBO56PTiI/AAAAAAAAL0M/JccX6lOYBgsvC9bnxoTT6bKC3_DCEyp1wCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252812%2529.jpg)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JtVx380DpEM/W4XBP_mJqlI/AAAAAAAAL08/djABtD8Pv4g_mHgDB9f97aaJYM0XmeKnACEwYBhgL/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252816%2529.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Metternich on September 19, 2018, 11:25:17 PM: Wow ! That is some impressive table !
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Smokeyrone on September 20, 2018, 04:13:49 AM: Beautiful work!
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Isasi on September 20, 2018, 03:04:18 PM: Awsome!, as well as inspiring :-*
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on September 20, 2018, 05:14:34 PM: Loving that and your rhino is so much better painted than mine🤨

Doug
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Marine0846 on September 21, 2018, 05:00:26 PM: Lovely terrain.
Cool looking hill fort.
Look forward to seeing your figures on it.
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Captain Blood on September 21, 2018, 05:04:23 PM: What a great fort. Love the huts too.
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: joekano on September 21, 2018, 05:28:12 PM: That looks like a fantastic table for adventures!
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Tom Reed on September 21, 2018, 05:33:30 PM: Wow, a simply breathtaking table! I wish that I was half as good with my terrain, something I am trying to rectify.
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: Barry S on September 22, 2018, 01:33:56 AM: That is a great looking table!
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: marco55 on September 22, 2018, 02:28:01 AM: Yes a great looking table. ;D ;D :D
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's Darkest Africa Project
Post by: FifteensAway on September 22, 2018, 02:33:09 AM: It's terrible. Just terrible, I say. All that nice terrain, quite adventurous including a couple of ruins. But just terrible. While the fowl might slake their thirst with the morning dew, where will the poor rhino get a drink?! lol
Title: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 03, 2018, 03:29:02 PM: Ngoni Military Commander

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b95DnuIB1I8/W7TJq-2R6wI/AAAAAAAAL84/zXUF2XpKC6gsBbNRL1DzolayS1vHcnQVQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25286%2529.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nbYgmkF17m0/W7TJq_FojdI/AAAAAAAAL88/IBBcRsJKHvMzcKbUYpD368--X9XGElLAwCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25289%2529.jpg)

One of my Death in the Dark Continent units.

Blog link: https://raglanafricanadventure.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Plynkes on October 03, 2018, 03:47:45 PM: Always good to see these guys. Some of my favourite figures ever, Copplestone's Ngoni. Nice one.

I'm hoping that at some point we'll see them get an outing on that table layout you showed us a little while back. That will be quite something.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 03, 2018, 04:19:09 PM: Quote from: Plynkes on October 03, 2018, 03:47:45 PM
Always good to see these guys. Some of my favourite figures ever, Copplestone's Ngoni. Nice one.

I'm hoping that at some point we'll see them get an outing on that table layout you showed us a little while back. That will be quite something.

I was torn between the Ngoni and the Zulus, so I just decided to collect both, it will make for some interesting tribal warfare games.

Now that I have several factions painted, this winter will see a DitDC campaign, I have an idea to link them with some Congo games.

Gareth
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Plynkes on October 03, 2018, 05:35:04 PM: That'd be cool. I find myself increasingly drawn to the idea of all-African battles, and leaving the Europeans out of it for a change.

I guess technically that wouldn't be Colonial Adventures, and I'd have to post about it on some other board. But that would be silly. :)

Note: Raglan's two Darkest Africa topics have been merged at his request.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 04, 2018, 04:16:12 PM: South African Boer Wagon and Driver

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sG19fNabfCQ/W7YtaFU4t4I/AAAAAAAAL9M/rvDItIEHdqAFdIThiu6B3SI4KHDEYh-SgCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252834%2529.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QZtD7IM9SL4/W7YtfcgH4CI/AAAAAAAAL9Q/8HkTXGpT6ZYmfQLt3sS9uC0Y-zkKCjU_gCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252832%2529.jpg)

Model from Perry Miniatures.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 04, 2018, 08:17:20 PM: Ngoni Senior Regiment

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5G5r3lYsfwM/W7ZgoEJJqlI/AAAAAAAAL9g/Cghjr5490vkz2K-RWNYCl7_kBE-3WdHMgCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252810%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1FgKBwMBoGI/W7ZgtShYdVI/AAAAAAAAL9k/LTRF9gh5TOI2riB5jtu7y4D1JR4tiLSCgCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252812%2529.jpg)

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yN3N7UgJr64/W7Zgw-t_iBI/AAAAAAAAL9w/afhWq9kzeGQMcLJw0aV_QkRhICZDgzU-ACLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25288%2529.jpg)

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NVRgTvpbIV0/W7Zgw5uQaVI/AAAAAAAAL9s/7ah0bJCMOko-9mm0OyWIvnzq4hN-oAhcQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252811%2529.jpg)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UppwtAEQmFI/W7Zgwtdhm4I/AAAAAAAAL9o/Bej0KoDMK4Mf6r_jTt_l3tdd_-40lni5QCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252813%2529.jpg)

The Ngoni military machine was based on the formation of national regiments comprising of different age-sets from the various clans. The age-set system with it's general division of cattle herders (pre-warrior age), warriors and senior men (post-warrior age) is a common feature of Bantu social organisations.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 05, 2018, 09:14:31 PM: Ngoni Warrior Regiment

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WU7u9-_iak4/W7fAjBOYBzI/AAAAAAAAL-I/5xGDjBmc0v0enfNrtH6MoS-8wDwpbabKACEwYBhgL/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25287%2529.jpg)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mngjfPFzNTs/W7fAlkpGYAI/AAAAAAAAL-M/ysVbAboYC-sLsaiWhmYj3TVYplPD5HtfgCEwYBhgL/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252811%2529.jpg)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lQYs59sF1Rs/W7fAoIPW84I/AAAAAAAAL-Q/5ZDjnuA92gY0Pj8dvfUwvxWfjLZQ5gdIwCEwYBhgL/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25286%2529.jpg)

These prime fighters would often form up as part of the "chest" when the Ngoni adopted the "buffalo horns" attack formation and were expected to deliver the coup de grace to the enemy.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FierceKitty on October 06, 2018, 02:17:25 AM: Quote from: Plynkes on October 03, 2018, 05:35:04 PM
That'd be cool. I find myself increasingly drawn to the idea of all-African battles, and leaving the Europeans out of it for a change.

I guess technically that wouldn't be Colonial Adventures, and I'd have to post about it on some other board. But that would be silly. :)

Note: Raglan's two Darkest Africa topics have been merged at his request.

Africans could colonise other parts of Africa. It's a big place.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 06, 2018, 07:35:30 AM: Quote from: FierceKitty on October 06, 2018, 02:17:25 AM
Africans could colonise other parts of Africa. It's a big place.

The Ngoni are a good example of a nation who actually did this very thing.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 08, 2018, 11:29:04 PM: The white man's baggage train

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zGEeOfdLud8/W7vY_Rq_GxI/AAAAAAAAMB4/xqchaWkEtFc3EKsYYVfe6i8ApTMbgypBwCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252814%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ySSIbVxyxxw/W7vY_Q0afDI/AAAAAAAAMB0/E38TlFvLmpgcFCPeCka5NSABWk-aHfsUwCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252815%2529.jpg)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i7zA7L76-jY/W7vY_OrmqAI/AAAAAAAAMBw/YHc5QFptypkZ0K3EuwBpOzSCLlq2o_MKACLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252816%2529.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2018, 08:35:34 PM: Desert Train Station Kafr el-Sheikh

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XdbYfkJPOlo/XARAQ6NLzhI/AAAAAAAAMLs/UV4IY3lfCnAEHDAOlk05toWMUy_4WwKwQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail.png)

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-habDuhhEeIM/XARAQ--U0qI/AAAAAAAAMLo/moR1vZNOK9QpswoDHJ793u-1iOk7eE85gCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25281%2529.png)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3yF2VUxBiLE/XARARTo7G9I/AAAAAAAAMLw/TpysECAO3eghzwxp4K_D1oOHGmYgmshjQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%25282%2529.png)

Courtesy of Art.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Ignatieff on December 02, 2018, 08:39:38 PM: Well, that's all a bit fabulous.....
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Calumma on December 03, 2018, 11:37:16 AM: Very nice!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Argonor on December 03, 2018, 12:37:23 PM: Are those rocks at the beginning made from upholstery foam?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 03, 2018, 01:04:22 PM: Quote from: Argonor on December 03, 2018, 12:37:23 PM
Are those rocks at the beginning made from upholstery foam?

No buddy, it's either blue or white polstrene sheets, carved into shape and textured.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Argonor on December 03, 2018, 01:51:34 PM: OK, thanks - the shapes reminded me of some rocks I've seen made by plucking chuncks of upholstery foam, then painted with some latex/paint mix (I think), that's why I asked.

Must have taken quite some skill with a knife to get those shapes! :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 03, 2018, 06:03:57 PM: I have seen the type of foam rocks you refer to, however, you wouldn't be able to achieve such a high level of detail with that type of material.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 03, 2018, 10:30:00 PM: A little Egyptian terrain for good measure:

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2qrCvHdRZUs/XAWpjKK44EI/AAAAAAAAMMc/Z43e6T26oUkVsj1_6j5pZTye44E6wc0mQCLcBGAs/s1600/DSCN9988.JPG)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ReAbUe7cvcQ/XAWpi-HlYzI/AAAAAAAAMMY/4eXHt8J9XOoC2Sm_1RkHXxDbKb8LbxCZACLcBGAs/s1600/DSCN9982.JPG)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ddviOteelO4/XAWpda8r4jI/AAAAAAAAMMM/Sni_BdNTGXEiC3z_KX_tIoRJM3YLUMSjwCLcBGAs/s1600/DSCN0008.JPG)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pUUi7xTuYOo/XAWpiYVsiNI/AAAAAAAAMMU/_1WZBb1LRLArcbDhdARIe75qHQ739KJnwCLcBGAs/s1600/DSCN9980.JPG)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Utgaard on December 04, 2018, 07:07:22 AM: That really looks very convincing, great job!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 04, 2018, 07:38:53 AM: Quote from: Utgaard on December 04, 2018, 07:07:22 AM
That really looks very convincing, great job!

My mate Tony Bragg modelled this for me.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Calumma on December 04, 2018, 10:59:26 AM: Excellent stuff! I have a few tomb entrances and Egyptian ruins myself and would like to expand Congo adventures north!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 12, 2018, 10:18:05 PM: Quote from: Calumma on December 04, 2018, 10:59:26 AM
Excellent stuff! I have a few tomb entrances and Egyptian ruins myself and would like to expand Congo adventures north!

Yeah, just stick a bit of jungle around a tomb and you have a great Congo layout.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on April 22, 2019, 07:42:05 PM: Watuta Warrior Regiment

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hTINbVAVIUA/XL4IU20AQ0I/AAAAAAAAM4c/1QPSi8oCNcw_sxQ7_BZ9QhYPb27EvvG_ACLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252817%2529.jpg)

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PlQjQmnAmH0/XL4Iff3BCxI/AAAAAAAAM4k/jwirIOllyqEYIpCaYt2oBkMXWshwc5_8gCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252814%2529.jpg)

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UyQIdP0x9Q8/XL4IfQWhEGI/AAAAAAAAM4o/kMgB16RzYS8cEzoarzo5kywQ2gLbLiEJgCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252815%2529.jpg)

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dDti1acUfOA/XL4IfQ894dI/AAAAAAAAM4s/bMNU1aKtw_gHlAbEdRN0BIAO23cjoyyagCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252818%2529.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CFt6nT7rtyY/XL4If7WYY9I/AAAAAAAAM4w/gUjB_zzY_JYPJbz2MFY5gnHdIdvF4QSjQCLcBGAs/s1600/thumbnail%2B%252819%2529.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mike1879 on April 22, 2019, 09:13:45 PM: Very nice my Lord !!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Plynkes on April 23, 2019, 10:38:14 AM: Striking!

Still love those figures, amongst my favourite ever. And you've done them justice.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: joekano on April 23, 2019, 07:23:11 PM: They look great!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on April 23, 2019, 07:34:01 PM: I have just learnt how to use the macro feature on my camera phone and it's made a massive difference to the quality of the miniature pics.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: War In 15MM on April 25, 2019, 09:24:26 PM: Great looking collection.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Deedles on May 15, 2019, 06:51:37 AM: Very nice...
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Rogerc on May 16, 2019, 09:57:17 AM: Wow, they really pop, great job Raglan.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on May 16, 2019, 12:25:28 PM: Copplestone are lovely miniatures and look great individually and on mass.

I also have a bucketload of unpainted Black Tree Zulu staring at me from shedHQ, but they look a bit dated in comparison to Copplestone.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: JBaumal on May 17, 2019, 03:18:13 PM: Great job Raglan, awesome collection! I’m loving this thread.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 14, 2019, 11:13:49 PM: Time for tiffin with Lady Evelyn Bagley, Professor Inigo Tinkle and Mr Bill Boosey

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxY0bMXkAApf18?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxY05GX0AMGo_A?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxY1dVXkAEw7Mq?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 14, 2019, 11:15:10 PM: Some hired help

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxUTZ9XYAAVQIb?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 14, 2019, 11:17:28 PM: Ngoni Cattle Herdswomen

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxSMYdXYAYEb5a?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxSNpYXUAAkaRl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 14, 2019, 11:20:05 PM: Azande Musketmen

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxOLd_XYAAXplo?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxOL7lX0AIMu20?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 14, 2019, 11:22:29 PM: Azande Musketmen

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxNKMHX0AEU06o?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGxNKu4X4AEBxAx?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on October 15, 2019, 07:34:23 AM: Really great stuff!! 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mike1879 on October 15, 2019, 08:11:33 AM: Very nice indeed my friend 👏
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Plynkes on October 15, 2019, 11:31:37 AM: Oh yes, this is the thing for me! I see Daniel Dravot has made the trip to Africa. Perfect!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FlyXwire on October 15, 2019, 12:43:40 PM: Fun stuff, and mooooov outa the way warriors (or do you have a beef with that)!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 06:19:08 PM: Thank you gents, very kind of you!!

.....but please leave the bad jokes to me ;)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 06:21:46 PM: Nobody does voodoo, like you do ;D

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG558l5WwAARCAs?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG559hFWwAA1kI9?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG55-O7X0AA3t9S?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FlyXwire on October 15, 2019, 08:51:47 PM: Just a heads up, but now I'm even seeing skulls in those tree knots....do you too?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 09:02:44 PM: Quote from: FlyXwire on October 15, 2019, 08:51:47 PM
Just a heads up, but now I'm even seeing skulls in those tree knots....do you too?

Its Black Magic
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on October 15, 2019, 10:06:00 PM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 06:21:46 PM
Nobody does voodoo, like you do ;D

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG558l5WwAARCAs?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG559hFWwAA1kI9?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG55-O7X0AA3t9S?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

I don't mean to be pedantic but isn't Voodoo a Caribean/Floridian type of thing?

(I'm really not being a pain)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 10:46:03 PM: I think you might find it originated in Africa, anyway, my boys get around a bit ;)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on October 16, 2019, 07:25:54 AM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 10:46:03 PM
I think you might find it originated in Africa, anyway,
Quote from: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 10:46:03 PM
my boys get around a bit ;)

lol

Quote from: Lord Raglan on October 15, 2019, 10:46:03 PM
I think you might find it originated in Africa

According to Wiki it came from around the Caribean, the very southern tip of the US and the Spanish Empire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 16, 2019, 09:28:48 AM: Very sadly and much to my better judgement, I am also being pedantic over a heading which was simply written to make others smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRt6CTb6riY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodun
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on October 16, 2019, 10:05:56 AM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on October 16, 2019, 09:28:48 AM
Very sadly and much to my better judgement, I am also being pedantic over a heading which was simply written to make others smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRt6CTb6riY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodun

I didn't mean any offence mate. Nor was it a passive aggressive remark. Just thought you might be interested.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 16, 2019, 07:25:03 PM: Adirmal Nicholas Hawtrey (retired) with askaris bodyguard and faithful hound Winston

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAXgcPXYAAufFl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAXg7lX0AAPtGy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAXhuAX4AERTrc?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

Admiral Hawtrey was going to call his dog Voodoo, but as he was an English bulldog and not African, he could not bring himself to do so, what a pedantic old fool the admiral was ;D
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on October 16, 2019, 09:22:57 PM: Nice work....
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 16, 2019, 10:14:13 PM: Cheers Darrell
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FifteensAway on October 17, 2019, 03:57:50 AM: All very nice but am I the only one finding the photos with the dark background a bit of a challenge for seeing the photos - except the Watuta with their white headdresses? I think I understand the reasoning and perhaps better than the white backgrounds where some of the items washed out if not in the front of the focal plane (depth of field?). Still, makes it harder for me to focus on that fine work.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on October 17, 2019, 08:26:42 AM: Quote from: FifteensAway on October 17, 2019, 03:57:50 AM
All very nice but am I the only one finding the photos with the dark background a bit of a challenge for seeing the photos - except the Watuta with their white headdresses? I think I understand the reasoning and perhaps better than the white backgrounds where some of the items washed out if not in the front of the focal plane (depth of field?). Still, makes it harder for me to focus on that fine work.

I actually prefer a dark background to a lighter one. For starters, feeling rather counter-intuitive, it can be harder to get the lighting right the lighter the background I have found.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 17, 2019, 01:26:25 PM: Quote from: FifteensAway on October 17, 2019, 03:57:50 AM
All very nice but am I the only one finding the photos with the dark background a bit of a challenge for seeing the photos

Thank you for the advice, but I can assure you, my miniatures look much better in low light, preferably pitch black to make them look stunning ;)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 17, 2019, 09:52:41 PM: Darkest Africa - British Naval Detachment

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAPRsTXUAcWbNy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAPSMiWsAAzeN4?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 21, 2019, 11:33:58 PM: Natal Carbineers

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAIsIhWsAABCpl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAIs9TX0AAQ5O2?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAItdFWoAAT_Rg?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAIuDMX4AAMDmR?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on October 21, 2019, 11:36:21 PM: Navel Detachment Baggage Train

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHARi0FWoAApA-D?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHARjZBWsAE85Dt?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Rogerc on October 22, 2019, 06:24:00 PM: Awesome my friend, love the carbineers particularly.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 01, 2019, 06:49:41 PM: This Ngoni regiment forms the right horn of the attack formation

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs6w-OXYAIn8MS?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs6xtHW4AApcpd?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs6yqWWsAIRx-_?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs6zQ7WsAA0jHg?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 01, 2019, 07:30:03 PM: This Ngoni regiment forms the left horn of the attack

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs_CAOW4AAQIzM?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs_CvTX0AI2cT2?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKs_DgdXkAEn2Fy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on December 02, 2019, 03:55:45 AM: Really nice work. This is the third thread of yours I have looked at tonight.One question I have,how do you do it ? o_o.How do you do so much.It's not like you paint a few figures and that's it as you create whole worlds.My hat's off to you.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 11:29:43 AM: I don't make any of the terrain, this is out sourced to friends such as David Marshal and Tony Bragg.

As for the miniatures, much of this stuff is batch painted, boring as hell but it does allow you to get stuff on the table quickly
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on December 02, 2019, 12:44:13 PM: Dave Marshall is great.He made something for me once.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 02:22:31 PM: The bloke is a frigging genius
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 02, 2019, 06:19:34 PM: Some great stuff on this thread. I have a soft spot for Ngoni I'm in the middle of painting my own army of them at the moment.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 10:15:51 PM: You've got to love the Ngoni
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 02, 2019, 10:18:05 PM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 10:15:51 PM
You've got to love the Ngoni

Unless they happen to be your neighbours lol
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 10:20:11 PM: Belgium's Force Publique Command Group

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtLrbgWsAE02VF?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

Under Leopold II the Force Publique was described as an "exceptionally brutal army". One major purpose of the Force was to enforce the rubber quotas and other forms of forced labour.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtLsVAXYAAYvd8?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtLszgWwAEvC6H?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 10:22:33 PM: Force Publique Detachment lead by Leon Rom and accompanied by Sir Charles Wigbert (a well known english git)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtRiFsWsAkywWy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtRixhXYAACzGS?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtRjYOW4AITXhk?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtRj6qWwAAoNNL?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on December 02, 2019, 10:48:03 PM: Love the Force Publique figures.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on December 02, 2019, 11:09:52 PM: I don't have these anymore but here are some I had done once.I also have these nice figures from the Crisis 2019 show in Belgium representing Lt.Lippens and Sgt.DeBruyne who was killed by Sefu in 1892.A very nice person sent them to me.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 02, 2019, 11:18:34 PM: Nicely done Mark!!

Interestingly, a very kind person has offered to send me that little vignette after seeing this Force on Twitter, there really is some lovely people in this hobby.

Gareth
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on December 03, 2019, 12:43:20 AM: Yes there are some great people in the hobby.I have bought and sold a lot over the years and have never had a problem.They will also help you any way they can.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 03, 2019, 11:15:19 PM: Force Publique Detachment lead by Charles Tombeur, accompanied by famous explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtXRz0WwAA_pQZ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtXS-eWkAAyoyD?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtXTc_WkAIqasD?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 03, 2019, 11:17:50 PM: Force Publique Local Levy Detachment lead by Sergeant Camembert

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtZqjVWkAAxE9o?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtZrC_XUAAsx8N?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtZr1oWkAA6qrR?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtZsZbXYAAk-0Q?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 03, 2019, 11:47:23 PM: Oh I like those. Nicely done.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FifteensAway on December 05, 2019, 05:26:55 AM: Looking - again - at your Force Publique figures and I realized there is a good option for those of us who prefer 15 mm figures: use Louisiana Tiger Zouaves mixed with Egyptian askari figures and get from a couple of manufacturers to add some variety and a credible unit can be assembled. Unless someone makes these figures in 15 mm already but I don't know of any.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 08, 2019, 10:21:18 PM: Force Publique Detachment lead by Lieutenant Fredrick Leuven and his brother Abraham

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtgoqcXYAYSyjg?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtgpY8X0AM1Kaw?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 08, 2019, 10:23:17 PM: Force Publique Baggage Train

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtur4cXUAArmJ9?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtusuOXsAIS0rO?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKtutjxWwAABhVX?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on December 08, 2019, 10:34:42 PM: Love them. :-*
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 08, 2019, 10:46:22 PM: I love baggage trains and camp followers and those are ace.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Smokeyrone on December 10, 2019, 01:49:23 AM: Quote from: Diablo Jon on December 08, 2019, 10:46:22 PM
I love baggage trains and camp followers and those are ace.

Yup. TSATF Darkest Africa supplement is a really neat contest if you use baggage trains and porters as a key component.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: JBaumal on December 12, 2019, 01:49:07 AM: I love them. Great brush work. The bases are excellent! What’s your formula?

I use The Sword And The Flame variant TSIA as well and really enjoy it!!! I can’t wait to see what comes with the 40th Anniversary Edition of the rules...
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Marine0846 on December 14, 2019, 05:55:10 PM: You keep adding more great looking figures.
An excellent collection of figures.
Thanks for sharing.
PS, where do the mules come from?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Panama on December 14, 2019, 06:47:14 PM: I've only just some across this & have to say you've done wonderful work & I very much look forward to seen more :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 27, 2019, 09:09:43 PM: Richard Francis Burton, was one of Britain’s most iconic and individualistic explorers. Known for his immense linguistic capabilities, he was believed to have been able to speak 29 different languages.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMTxY5nW4AAK-Eq?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marianas_gamer on December 27, 2019, 11:54:51 PM: ….and a master swordsman (in more ways than one!) lol lol
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FifteensAway on December 28, 2019, 01:55:04 AM: marianas_gamer, don't you mean master swordsman and good with a rapier?! lol
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Digits on December 28, 2019, 08:17:09 AM: Great thread and lovely minis.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on January 05, 2020, 08:26:59 PM: Boer Light Horse for Death in the Dark Continent

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENCN-Z6XYAAzLGP?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENCN-_tXYAcmQWS?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENCN_mnXkAAY3TJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENCOASWWoAEvlto?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FifteensAway on January 07, 2020, 05:25:26 AM: ...all the pretty horses... and the gents don't look to bad sartorically, neither! lol

And, oh, my lord, m'lord, just how many project do you have on the go all at once? Are you an octupi?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Hupp n at em on January 10, 2020, 04:41:44 PM: This whole thread is lovely but that train station is especially great! With a little dock/pier extension it could be a great river waystation as well. :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on March 07, 2020, 08:27:43 AM: General Pieter Arnoldus "Piet" Cronje leads a group of Boer Outriders

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOpPGRnWAAM2d-_.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOpPHQMWkAAuRmE.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOpPKsjX4AMGOfL.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOpPJ5TXkAA9EJi.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on March 07, 2020, 09:24:26 AM: Lovely jubbily :-*
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on March 07, 2020, 11:06:24 AM: I always enjoy your threads as you have so many pics to look at and enjoy. ;D
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marianas_gamer on March 07, 2020, 11:44:44 PM: Nice work. That drab pallet really works for these Boers.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on March 08, 2020, 08:54:51 AM: Nicely done.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on March 08, 2020, 11:35:32 AM: Thank you chaps!!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mike1879 on March 08, 2020, 01:33:19 PM: They look really nice them Boers ;)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FierceKitty on March 08, 2020, 05:53:56 PM: Are the bright neckkerchiefs and hatbands authentic?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Bravo Six on March 14, 2020, 06:16:43 PM: Quote
I always enjoy your threads as you have so many pics to look at and enjoy.

I whole heartedly agree with that statement. Raglan is very prolific in many periods, channeling what Prof. Witcheimer and Grimm used to call "Teutonic Efficiency". :D
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on April 20, 2020, 11:59:38 PM: Lieutenant Joseph Lippens and his adjunct Sergeant Henri De Bruyne fighting in Congo

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVUAsB6WAAELi98.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVUAtHQXsAMgHOs.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVUAuNqXsAAWXlJ.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Marine0846 on April 22, 2020, 08:39:48 PM: Love your vignette.
May I ask what company makes your Boers?
Really well painted.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on April 22, 2020, 09:06:57 PM: Quote from: Marine0846 on April 22, 2020, 08:39:48 PM
Love your vignette.
May I ask what company makes your Boers?
Really well painted.

They were a gift from one of the guys off Twitter, I think they were a special edition set from a wargames show in Belgium
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 02, 2020, 07:44:26 PM: Anglo-Zulu War British Command

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JNDRjbjSsgs/XycC78DvZNI/AAAAAAAAN3A/_W61qxhGITMkbhjOYEGu9T34AYJ9SnotwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200802_145036.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 02, 2020, 07:47:03 PM: The march into Zululand

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OD9syxkCHI4/XycDkxsZVnI/AAAAAAAAN3I/DN1a-N3-r6kmlqCSnrNwQbQ-5emd0-xyQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200802_142720.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMdrY1UCzcc/XycDrnnZ1DI/AAAAAAAAN3M/LRCh4ooUmr8wc2MrlyIDA9iJEq004FGjACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200802_142654.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fyY2qj9vN1E/XycDr5Ye1YI/AAAAAAAAN3Q/03fr7v5tByg47wG0-vlBVeXvfKojBDl-wCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200802_142708.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-xFABd7pzg/XycDr50-HyI/AAAAAAAAN3U/mQ6haYevk9w5o1bzms-RdPON_ZFd_c1xQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200802_142640.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on August 02, 2020, 09:40:27 PM: Top stuff Gareth :-*
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Marine0846 on August 03, 2020, 02:39:00 PM: Lovely figures.
Notice some Black Tree figures. (I think) :D
I have always liked their figures,
wonderful job painting them.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 03, 2020, 07:54:29 PM: Quote from: Marine0846 on August 03, 2020, 02:39:00 PM
Lovely figures.
Notice some Black Tree figures. (I think) :D
I have always liked their figures,
wonderful job painting them.

Yes mostly BT in this collection, I bought while they still delivered your order :-[
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 03, 2020, 07:55:05 PM: Quote from: Atheling on August 02, 2020, 09:40:27 PM
Top stuff Gareth :-*

Cheers Darrell
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 05, 2020, 10:32:45 PM: Lt John Chard: "it's a miracle Colour Sgt, it's a short-chambered, Boxer-Henry 45 calibre miracle"
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iVnPMwFKujs/Xysi6mMsytI/AAAAAAAAN4o/AAyaz5bMUQgieOhQO696e1eQ8rUBvdhwgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2609/20200802_141049.jpg)

Colour Sgt Bourne: "And bayonet sir. With some guts behind it"
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MpY35mcE5Yk/XysjKlod4FI/AAAAAAAAN4w/LaAR1ycNua8Y0XMNHg6DPkqZpAPs0QWagCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200802_141033.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4RQEh41eXQ/XysjoeCb4YI/AAAAAAAAN44/nZWIGptBwnQTIMZo5IV4L0ggbEuc2GUZQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2609/20200802_141008.jpg)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mike1879 on August 05, 2020, 11:26:48 PM: Excellent work !! :o
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FifteensAway on August 06, 2020, 02:52:26 AM: All very nice but I really like the oxen - very nicely done.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on August 06, 2020, 07:41:09 AM: Very cool. I was re-watching Zulu Dawn last night it does make one want to rush out and buy a load of 1870s British but I must resist.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on August 06, 2020, 08:56:50 AM: :-*
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 06, 2020, 11:27:07 PM: Anglo-Zulu War British Infantry defending the line at Isandlwana

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ7PI2WsAAqQBQ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ7WibXkAAHn04?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ7Z41X0AY3z2T?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 06, 2020, 11:29:57 PM: Unmarried Zulu Regiment Umxapho in full regalia (you can tell these Zulu are unmarried, due to the happy look on their faces).

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ3wMgX0AAhA2i?format=jpg&name=medium)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ3wXJWkAAV5L4?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ3zYEXsAApjYS?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZ32YxWoAAuAiG?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on August 07, 2020, 07:11:08 AM: Excellent :-*

I wish I could keep up! :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Rogerc on August 07, 2020, 05:15:48 PM: Great work raglan, I always fancied a skirmish project with Zulu war, Colonial cavalry raiding cattle would be fun.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 07, 2020, 07:51:36 PM: Quote from: Rogerc on August 07, 2020, 05:15:48 PM
Great work raglan, I always fancied a skirmish project with Zulu war, Colonial cavalry raiding cattle would be fun.

Quote from: Atheling on August 07, 2020, 07:11:08 AM
Excellent :-*

I wish I could keep up! :)

Cheers boys!!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 07, 2020, 07:53:48 PM: Five rounds, independent, fire!!!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeQ8zjtWsAElNVy?format=jpg&name=medium)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeQ80JyXoAEv8rf?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeQ83LsXYAIjaVy?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mike1879 on August 07, 2020, 08:33:36 PM: Excellent !! lovely painting on those Black Tree minis
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on August 08, 2020, 08:39:53 AM: Lovely work 8) 8) 8)

Quote from: Mike1879 on August 07, 2020, 08:33:36 PM
Excellent !! lovely painting on those Black Tree minis

Agreed, bags of character :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 09, 2020, 01:21:21 PM: The wife reckons that Colour Sgt Bourne and I might have been separated at birth

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EemhQrxWAAUmoGW?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mike1879 on August 09, 2020, 03:23:06 PM: Bloody hell thats uncanny!! If you got a pith helmet you got to try it on and post it lol
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: DintheDin on August 09, 2020, 05:02:31 PM: Stunned! Amazing resemblance!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Plynkes on August 09, 2020, 05:11:54 PM: You certainly look like Nigel Green. Frank Bourne, not quite as much. :)

(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/163-090820160845.jpeg)

But that really is a priceless comparison shot, and I love your expression. Great stuff!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 09, 2020, 10:50:36 PM: Quote from: Plynkes on August 09, 2020, 05:11:54 PM
But that really is a priceless comparison shot, and I love your expression.

I now greet all my patients with that same look
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 10, 2020, 06:44:44 PM: Just in case you fancy a sing song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEU5zHgcTc&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 22, 2020, 04:09:36 PM: Darkest Africa retinue for Death on the Dark Continent

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eftiv5vXsA04wF2?format=jpg&name=medium)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EftiwtfX0AE1tma?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EftiyPTWoAUO1jD?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EftizQvX0AECEq_?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EftjTKkWAAEf5bx?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on August 22, 2020, 04:22:33 PM: Your colors always seem to compliment each figure with each other.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 16, 2020, 09:26:22 PM: Quote from: marco55 on August 22, 2020, 04:22:33 PM
Your colors always seem to compliment each figure with each other.
Mark

Cheers Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 16, 2020, 09:28:30 PM: The Zulu War - The Welsh take up residency, "If 1200 men couldn't hold a defensive position this morning, what chance have we with 100?"

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EozhBatXcAEwzTY?format=jpg&name=large)

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 16, 2020, 09:30:08 PM: (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EozhYImXcAMl-Zj?format=jpg&name=large)

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 16, 2020, 09:31:51 PM: (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EozbszYW4AUEu-x?format=jpg&name=large)

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Rogerc on December 16, 2020, 10:24:02 PM: Fantastic work Raglan.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: JBaumal on December 18, 2020, 12:58:44 PM: Awesome thread, outstanding brush work, beautiful tables!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 27, 2020, 07:19:26 PM: Darkest Africa layout

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgVly9bWkAEOlmX?format=jpg&name=medium)

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: bc99 on December 27, 2020, 07:31:08 PM: Amazing, I love the trees and the giant terrain pieces.

Which mat are you using?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on December 27, 2020, 07:39:47 PM: Quote from: bc99 on December 27, 2020, 07:31:08 PM
Which mat are you using?

Tiny Wargames - Arid/Green mat buddy
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Marine0846 on December 27, 2020, 08:22:42 PM: Very sweet looking terrain.
Love it.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on December 27, 2020, 09:06:02 PM: What a gorgeous table! I am green with envy mate. Brilliant work!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on December 28, 2020, 09:51:42 AM: Lovely set up :-*

I've really got to get my studio sorted out so I can set up some games! It's beyond "mess" :(
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Rogerc on January 02, 2021, 05:21:25 PM: Cracking terrain Raglan loveit.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on January 02, 2021, 05:31:43 PM: Thank you everybody for your kind comments!!

As I work towards retirement, I am pretty content with my terrain collection at the moment.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 28, 2021, 05:20:37 PM: Force Publique on a pacification mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FP was a mixture of volunteers, regular officers detached from the Belgian Army, mercenaries and former officers from the armies of other European nations.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Marine0846 on August 28, 2021, 05:30:22 PM: Lovely army, Lord Raglan.
I have always liked the Foundry Darkest Africa figures.
One of their best lines of figures.
Seeing your figures reminds me I have not had my "Africans" out in years.
Thanks for the photos.
May I ask, "what rules do you play?"
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: AKULA on August 28, 2021, 05:30:41 PM: Cracking collection you’ve got there - beautiful figures and terrain 8)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: marco55 on August 28, 2021, 05:39:12 PM: Great looking collection.
Mark
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 28, 2021, 05:42:20 PM: Quote from: marco55 on August 28, 2021, 05:39:12 PM
Great looking collection.
Mark
Quote from: AKULA on August 28, 2021, 05:30:41 PM
Cracking collection you’ve got there - beautiful figures and terrain 8)

Cheers boys

Quote from: Marine0846 on August 28, 2021, 05:30:22 PM
May I ask, "what rules do you play?"

Death in the Dark Continent or TMWWBK sir
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 28, 2021, 06:37:31 PM: Ngoni Chief Zwangendaba (reigned c. 1815–48), leads a raiding party to Lake Tanganyika. After his death, the Ngoni state fragmented into several components, and the people continued their travels, occupying areas in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Atheling on August 28, 2021, 06:59:15 PM: :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on August 28, 2021, 07:21:13 PM: You always have great stuff mate but this batch takes it to another level! Loving it!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on August 28, 2021, 08:36:54 PM: Ngoni Nice! now these are my cup of tea they look grand. I have to ask though what are the Azande with muskets doing on lake Taganyika?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 29, 2021, 11:10:36 AM: Cheers boys!!

Quote from: Diablo Jon on August 28, 2021, 08:36:54 PM
Ngoni Nice! now these are my cup of tea they look grand. I have to ask though what are the Azande with muskets doing on lake Taganyika?

Splinter mercenary group
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 29, 2021, 11:13:22 AM: Azande scouts clear a path for Sir Alexander Featherstonehaugh's baggage party, but can they be trusted?

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 29, 2021, 11:15:20 AM: Thank goodness Captain Burty Shufflebottom has arrived with his Naval Party and their mascot Winston, that should make the Azande think twice about double crossing their English paymaster.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on August 29, 2021, 11:24:10 AM: Nice. Is that the sir Garnet Wolseley miniature from wargames illustrated I see in one of the pictures?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Marine0846 on August 29, 2021, 10:54:19 PM: Excellent additions. :-*
Winston looks like a killer. lol
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Mad Guru on August 30, 2021, 02:35:56 AM: Beautiful work, Lord Raglan! I was about to ask exactly what magnificent looking mini you used for the equally magnificently named, "Sir Alexander Featherstonehaugh"? I didn't even know Wargames Illustrated made a Sir Garnet Wolseley figure until Diablo Jon mentioned him.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 30, 2021, 10:08:50 AM: Quote from: Diablo Jon on August 29, 2021, 11:24:10 AM
Nice. Is that the sir Garnet Wolseley miniature from wargames illustrated I see in one of the pictures?

It is sir 👍
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 30, 2021, 10:10:33 AM: Quote from: Marine0846 on August 29, 2021, 10:54:19 PM
Winston looks like a killer. lol

He is a beast 💪
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 31, 2021, 08:09:42 PM: The Sacred Tree of the Ngoni, first discovered by Allan Quatermain and his group of adventurers.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on August 31, 2021, 08:12:46 PM: My granddaughter was also keen to get into the Darkest Africa action last weekend. With a giant leopard in tow, who could possibly stop King Zwangendaba and his brave tribesmen.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: fred on August 31, 2021, 10:00:57 PM: Looks great!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Rabbitz on September 01, 2021, 12:01:10 AM: Beautiful work.

Would you mind sharing you paint recipe for the bases you have done? They look fantastic.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Calumma on September 01, 2021, 06:59:01 AM: That tree is an excellent objective. Figures are splendid too!
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: sir_shvantselot on July 02, 2022, 05:53:48 PM: Really enjoyed discovering this thread. Need to start painting my DA.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on January 11, 2024, 07:55:07 PM: Quote from: sir_shvantselot on July 02, 2022, 05:53:48 PM
Really enjoyed discovering this thread. Need to start painting my DA.

DA was extremely popular in the 90s, not sure why it has tailored off
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: CapnJim on January 13, 2024, 07:11:57 PM: Hmm. Now that it's resurrected, I can comment. That is some lovely stuff there. I trust that giant leopard is as friendly as it looks?... :D
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 09:59:43 PM: Quote from: CapnJim on January 13, 2024, 07:11:57 PM
Hmm. Now that it's resurrected, I can comment. That is some lovely stuff there. I trust that giant leopard is as friendly as it looks?... :D

The leopard is friendly, but my granddaughter is deadly in close combat.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:02:37 PM: As the Ngoni migrated north, they began to encounter railways built by the British East Africa Company. This skirmish sees a Ngoni Impi using the horns of the buffalo tactic learnt from their mortal enemies the Zulu.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:05:00 PM: A Detachment of British Naval Troops hold the right flank, whilst conscripted colonial troops led by British officers hold the centre and left flank.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:07:22 PM: The Ngoni Impi closes with the British at pace, the horns sweeping round on both flanks whilst the head and loins pin the enemy in place.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:09:49 PM: Will British firepower be enough?

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:12:23 PM: It’s not looking good for the British, as the Ngoni Impi close on them at pace.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:14:22 PM: I think this battle might just be named the Massacre at Zambia's Railway Station.

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Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Plynkes on February 13, 2024, 08:26:43 AM: Cool! Lovely spread, great looking game and I always like to see the Ngoni in action.

That would be a bit of a giant-killing cup upset there. Historically the Ngoni were the ones getting massacred. There's a reason we have a movie called 'Zulu' but there isn't one called 'Ngoni.' :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Diablo Jon on February 13, 2024, 10:22:24 AM: Nice! lovely set up and miniatures. Definitely a complete reversal of history the few actual engagements between the British and the Ngoni all went the way if the British. Most famously the British invasion of Mpezeni's kingdom, in what is now Zambia, were the Central African rifles backed by Maxim guns and artillery made short work of The Ngoni in several clashes.
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: FifteensAway on February 13, 2024, 12:25:52 PM: ...or, when the British open fire at point blank range, the Ngoni are stopped in their tracks - except on the left flank!??? Perhaps more to come. Or maybe the massacre comment is foretelling and there are no survivors to explain what happened to the colonial authorities come to investigate.

Yes, cool terrain, like the railway and associated buildings. Interesting arrangement of the turnout/switch that we say and the "implied" one that we don't on the main line - it works okay visually.

Any Ngoni know how to operate the telegraph? Problems ahead for the next train?
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 13, 2024, 08:22:30 PM: Many thanks gents 🙏

For the record, I am definitely a “Hollywood Historian”, so as long as the period looks right to most people who have seen it in a movie, that’s as much actual history as I require in a wargame 😎
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: FifteensAway on February 14, 2024, 02:55:52 AM: Re: "Hollywood Historians", fun bit (maybe shared here on LAF before?):

Historian on Titanic movie, after the first one got fired, shared at a local in person event not long after movie's release that in discussions with James Cameron, director, it became clear that when it was a battle between art and history, art wins. Historian was a 'local' writer who wrote a book about the ship.

So you are in very good company - unless you don't think James Cameron is good company (which maybe his ex-wife might agree but hell if I know! :o).
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: Plynkes on February 14, 2024, 08:24:21 AM: Please don't take my comment as any kind of criticism, it's nice to see the Ngoni get a win for a change. :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Malamute on February 15, 2024, 08:07:39 AM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on February 12, 2024, 10:09:49 PM
Will British firepower be enough?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE8YRdBWQAAO5yE?format=jpg&name=large)

Looks like the train goes all the way to Japan!

Great stuff! :)
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 15, 2024, 08:18:27 AM: Quote from: Malamute on February 15, 2024, 08:07:39 AM
Looks like the train goes all the way to Japan!

Choo Choo 🚂
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: Johnny Boy on February 15, 2024, 11:05:59 AM: Fantastic thread right through, thank you so much for sharing. Like yourself M'lud Hollywood style is how my games are based and I find it a lot more fun. Just a pity that sometimes your favourites on the table don't match up to their screen persona, Damn those dice!
Keep up the great work and inspiration
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: CapnJim on February 15, 2024, 06:39:15 PM: History, Hollywood, whatever. It looks great and sounds fun!

Did perchance the British commander say, at the outset, "Bugger! Look at all those f***ing Ngoni?" :o
Title: Re: Raglan's African Adventure (Hollywood Style)
Post by: Lord Raglan on February 15, 2024, 06:46:23 PM: Quote from: CapnJim on February 15, 2024, 06:39:15 PM
History, Hollywood, whatever. It looks great and sounds fun!

Exactly mate 👍🏻