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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Dr. Moebius on July 12, 2013, 10:01:34 PM
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Hello everyone,
as this is my first post ever in this forum I just like to introduce myself very quick. My name is Dr. Moebius (or Alex in the real world, or Alexander as my mum is calling me).
In times when everyone around me (my mates) seems to paint Vikings, Normans, Irish etc. and playing SAGA I´ve got a Darkest Africa backflash for myself.
A few month ago I got the Death in the Dark Continent rules in my hands and decided to give it a go. Here is what I managed to paint so far. My Force Publique is now nearly complete ( I will do some more baggage and wound markers in the future). I have plans (and miniatures obviously) for a lot of factions I like to paint in the next years. My rough plan is to do the Congo Arabs/Manyema next and then followed by an Azande force.
Hopefully you will enjoy the pics - and let me say that I have done the pics with a mobile phone because I do not have a proper camera (and I´m a bad photographer as well).
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
Three stands of Ruga which I will use as Swahili or Arabised Manyema followers for my Arabs:
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And some pics of my Force Publique:
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top notch work, Alex, glad to meet you here and happy to see you going Colonials. Keep it coming!
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Some more brutal Belgians -
This time musket armed "freed slaves", a mountain gun and command:
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Wow! Welcome to LAF, and that is gorgeous work..... :o
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And the last to come: Baggage, the first wound marker and two converted baggage guards:
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Welcome to LAF.
Your first post, its great.
Fine painting on one of my favorite periods.
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Decent painting. :o
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Welcome - you will surely fit in here.
Some beautiful painting there, great work. :)
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Very nice work on great figures :)
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Alex,
Very nice paint jobs. I particularly like the striped fabrics (and so many :o :o) and the cow hide!
LB
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Top job indeed. I also like the three figure stands, which are a welcome change of pace from singly based miniatures and work as mini-dioramas.
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Welcome back, your painting and phone photography is great.
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Very nice painting and basing. I really like that baggage column.
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Very nice, thanks for posting!
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Many thanks to all of you for the welcome and your kind words.
It feels very good to get that positive feedback and it also motivates to keep my painting going.
Will show you some more in the next weeks.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Welcome aboard, Dr. Moebius.
:)
What a wonderful way to introduce yourself.
Stunning eye candy all round.
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Welcome here. Fantastic, your painting work!!! These figures are full of character.
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Excellent paintwork! :-*
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Superb toys :-* Can't wait to see more 8)
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Most impressive. They really are gems, those guys.
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Excellent work Alex, new to the forum but not to figure painting if the standard of these little gems are anything to go by. And as for camera photography, these are very good photographs I,d like to see what you could do with a proper camera, just awesome.
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Lovely paint jobs. Keep them coming. :-*
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Again many, many thanks to you all.
You all really made my day.
On the weekend I managed to paint some more stuff and I hope I can post some more of my DITDC project in the next days. I have to finish the multi bases for the next two Ruga/Manyema stands bringing the unit to five in total.
I've also started with two bases of Gongo Lutetes Tetela warriors which I will use as tribal allies for my Force Publique. I plan to have eight bases in total of these notorious canibals.
Choice of miniatures and painting is a little bit tricky on this as it is hard to find in depth information of these guys. Even Mr. Peers says not much about them in the foundry book.
The overall plan is to play a campain of the Force Publique Arab war once I finished all the models for both sides. I have read lots of this conflict and it fascinated me from the very beginnig.
Hopefully I will stick to it as I'm interested in many different miniatures and gaming systems.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Stunning work Dr M. Love the mini diorama feel to your stands. Do you intend to game with them?
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Stunning work Dr M. Love the mini diorama feel to your stands. Do you intend to game with them?
Thank you Hu Rhu,
yes I will use them for Chris Peers´ Death in the dark continent (DITDK). One great thing about the rules is that you field your miniatures on multibases of 60mm frontage size. Depth is not that important so I decided to go for 40mm for the depth of the bases (though 30mm is recommended in the rules).
It is really fun to create these little dioramas and it takes a while to decide where to place those painted heroes.
That is the same reason why I´m really looking forward to do a Horde of the Things army in 28mm.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Dr. M, a question, sir. Perhaps others are familiar with it so didn't notice, but on your casualty marker you have created a space for a die. I'm assuming this is "free" so you can leave the die up as needed with how ever many pips are called for. Is this from the rules or your own invention or some other source? Where ever it is from, I plan to steal the idea. ;)
And what everyone else said, by the way, very nice.
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Love the hats, love the shoes, love PJ.
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Dr. M, a question, sir. Perhaps others are familiar with it so didn't notice, but on your casualty marker you have created a space for a die. I'm assuming this is "free" so you can leave the die up as needed with how ever many pips are called for. Is this from the rules or your own invention or some other source? Where ever it is from, I plan to steal the idea. ;)
And what everyone else said, by the way, very nice.
Hello FifteensAway,
the idea with the loose die on the marker is not my idea. You can find it on several blogs, Roundwoods World for example, a fantastic blog about World War One wargaming. There you can find great wound markers that Sydney has done using the same principle.
I've done this one as a first try but I will go a different way with further markers. The reason is that the die on the base is not really cool looking.
The maximum pips you can get in DITDC is five per unit. So I will go for putting one dead miniature on a 30mm round base, some markers with two on a larger round base and so on.
That will look more bloody and will help the look of the game.
I made use of Wargames Foundry's offer that you will get a blister for free when you buy three times the same blister. That brought me 4 bisters of african casualties (32 minis in total). Now I can go crazy ;D by producing pips that will look great in the game.
I have also plans for using severed heads on poles, piles of skulls etc. so that will bring me a nice collection of pips that fit the feeling of the game.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Terrific work. They look absolutely fantastic.
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Excellent work. :-*
I particularly like the Ruga-Ruga, having finished some myself recently. Great stripes. 8)
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Excellent work. :-*
I particularly like the Ruga-Ruga, having finished some myself recently. Great stripes. 8)
Thanks Overlord,
the Ruga bandits are really fun to paint aren't they?
I'm again and again amazed how much character each of this minis has. A stunning sculptors job from Mr. Copplestone.
Do you have pics of your painted Ruga Ruga's? Would be great to see.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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More Africa,
as I said a few days ago I will post more of my stuff. Well, will do so now.
I finished two more bases of Ruga-Rugas bringing the unit now to five in total:
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I also started with the first two bases of the Tetela warriors who will serve as allies for my Force Publique army.
Maybe some day this will be getting an complete Tetela army itself. The pics are still WIP as I need to finish the bases and need matt varnish.
Further investigation told me that they had white and also red ocre warpaint. I started with white, maybe will try with white and red with the next bases. For the shields I chose the typical basket work shields that are typical for the congo.
Will do more of these, an some musket armed bases, later.
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More gorgeous offerings from the good Doctor!
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I am joining the crowd applauding the basing.
Enough temptation has been created for me to take a butchers at this system LATER in the year.
I could do with doing some of this.
8)
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More gorgeous offerings from the good Doctor!
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I am joining the crowd applauding the basing.
Enough temptation has been created for me to take a butchers at this system LATER in the year.
I could do with doing some of this.
8)
Thank you very much Mason :)
And yes, it would be fantastic to affect more gents and not to tavel allone anymore in these godless places of jungle and canibalism...
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Was also playing with the command base for my Congo Arabs the last day.
The guy in the middle is Sefu (the nephew of the notorious Tippu Tip). He will be the chief of my Arabs.
He will be protected by two guards and also has his personal sunshade bearer with him.
The sunshade bearer is converted (see below).
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And the last for tonight is a WIP of:
Yusef bin Ibn Hamid, also known as "Big Yusef". He will be the leader of the Ruga/Manyema unit.
As the latest fashion for Congo-Arabs he has a henna coloured beard.
The funny thing on Big Yusef is that he is arachnophobic, a bloody problem for a bandit leader in the heart of Africa!
Though he´s also very famous for killing twelve Banga warriors with his hands in a fight some months ago. It was the same fight that costs him his left eye (Banga arrow!)
Still in the very beginning of painting him but already lots of fun.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Fantastic work!!!! :-*
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Absolutely beautiful work. Sorely tempting me to revisit this period.
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Luverly work there.
FP and Cannibals allies are a fun combination in DitDC (i really must get back into that ..)
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Love the conversion with the sunshade. I too have a load of the Foundry Darkest Africa figures lurking at the bottom of the lead pile but I haven't found the time to paint them. Maybe your work will inspire them to be moved up the production line.
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Thats some really great work. I particularly like the wood effect on the spears and hand weapons.
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Thanks again to you all.
Had some time to paint Big Yusef who is now nearly finished.
Will post a picture of his base in some days.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Hi Alex, great painting and basing! I'm seriously thinking about all the unpainted DA stuff in my drawers ... But I should concentrate on the barbarians first when time permits. 8)
Welcome to the LAF!
:)
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Thank you Michael,
good idea to push the Barbarian project further. It´s fantastic what I´ve seen here of your work.
Some day I will get back to them again, maybe for HotT.
First have to travel through the dense jungle of central africa before I will march through the lands of Hyboria again :D
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Tetela warriors are top notch :-* It's getting one of my current favorit threads, keep it coming, Alex!
Though hope you don't mind some small criticism, I think you need a better flat varnish, some of them are looking a bit glossy.
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Totally inspiring work!!!
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Tetela warriors are top notch :-* It's getting one of my current favorit threads, keep it coming, Alex!
Though hope you don't mind some small criticism, I think you need a better flat varnish, some of them are looking a bit glossy.
Thanks for this Alex. That's really great that this is getting one of your current favorit threads. Will do my best to keep it up to date with new painted miniatures.
I'm always very open for feedback.
I've thought about that glossy thing myself. The Force Publique miniatures look more glossy than in reality to be honest. Though they are not that matt I like them to be.
The problem is that they were already varnished when I painted them again, so I have to live with that I think. The Tetela are still WIP, so they won't look glossy (hopefully) after getting their matt varnish anymore.
Normally I use Marabu gloss varnish done with a brush. The second step (after waiting for at least 24 hours) is then to spray Army Painter matt varnish. For the complete new painted miniatures this works, but it had not really worked with the already painted Force Publique.
Any advice on how I can get better results with a real matt varnish is much appreciated.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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I'm using Army painter as well but it doesn't look that glossy.
But there are enough of alternative solutions. Check this one article by Orctrader, is very helpful:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/orctrader/Articles/Varnish.html
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Lovely paintjobs! :-* I really have to get back to my 200 plus minis someday :-/
I use the same one as Alex. It's so far my favourite after years of playing lottery with other brands :)
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I'm using Army painter as well but it doesn't look that glossy.
But there are enough of alternative solutions. Check this one article by Orctrader, is very helpful:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/orctrader/Articles/Varnish.html
Thanks for the useful link Alex.
Mmmhh, maybe it is the Marabu gloss varnish?
Or do I use too much of the Army Painter spray in one go?
Have to check this again.
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I guess you need some more layers of matt varnish to cover the gloss layer. I'm using the spray version of Army Painter and spraying my figures at least three times. One layer would be never enough.
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I've only just found this thread, but am really impressed with your figures. Wow! Nice basing as well, very atmospheric paint jobs. Good work all round.
I don't know if you're in the UK, but we are having a Death in the Dark Continent day in Nottingham on the 19th November:
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5511
There are still a few places available.
On the varnish issue, the flattest finish I've found so far is Testor's Dullcote; however, I found the Army Painter Matt Varnish was actually better on my Azande tribesmen, as it wasn't completely matt. I though this looked better on the skin.
Cheers
James
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very wonderfull painting !!! keep on the good work :)
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Oh, great stuff, Alex! Really well done! And trust me when I tell you, you are not alone with the Africa bug. We're always here for you. :) :D
@Varnish
I can second Alex' suggestion. DR soluble matt varnish is as good as it gets!
@location
You seem to be in Germany, correct? If you are close to the Frankfurt/Darmstadt/Mannheim area, feel free to contact me. We'd love to visit Africa with new explorers.
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I don't know if you're in the UK, but we are having a Death in the Dark Continent day in Nottingham on the 19th November:
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5511
There are still a few places available.
On the varnish issue, the flattest finish I've found so far is Testor's Dullcote; however, I found the Army Painter Matt Varnish was actually better on my Azande tribesmen, as it wasn't completely matt. I though this looked better on the skin.
Cheers
James
Hi James,
thanks a lot for this. I've already seen the info about the africa day on the northstar news.
Would be great to join you guys in Notts though this is sadly to expensive for me to travel from Germany to Birmingham airport, take a taxi to Nottingham, book a hotel etc.
Maybe next time. I'm looking forward to see some nice pictures of that day.
I've also seen your Azande, very inspiring work and a beautifull paint job. One day we might have a great game and some pints together :)
And I absolutely agree that it sometimes look better to have not a very matt finish for african miniatures, though still trying to achieve better results with my finish.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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very wonderfull painting !!! keep on the good work :)
Thank you Grimm :)
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Oh, great stuff, Alex! Really well done! And trust me when I tell you, you are not alone with the Africa bug. We're always here for you. :) :D
Thank you very much Remington :)
Your Gumba site is brilliant as well as your blog!
I'm from the Niederrhein, close to the Ruhrpott. Let's check via PM if we can arrange something.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Hello Gentlemen,
tonight I finished the painting of 5 more Manyema/Ruga miniatures.
One more to go and then doing the bases. Hopefully I can post these two finished bases in the next days.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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These are excellent, lovely painting and basing!! :-* :-*
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Hello Gentlemen
It took me far longer than expected to finish the next two bases for this project. But tonight I can post the command base of my Manyema Slave Hunters unit featuring Big Yusef and his personal drummer as well as another base for the unit.
Big Yusef, converted drummer and bodyguard:
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Brilliant paintwork, love the work on the faces, they all look a tad unhappy and the drummer looks to be in a right evil mood, wouldn't want to bump into any of them on a dark night.
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Lovely!
I wish I had your skills!
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Superb. The bright stripes against the white tunics (?) really sets off the figures. Is the clothing historically accurate or is that your interpretation? Apologies I'm not being picky but I know next to nothing about this period or region so its curious interest.
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Excellent :-*
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Very impressive stuff!! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
I still have the old problem of deciding whether to base DA mini's on single bases or to go for multiple basing.
I suppose you could get away with both using Death in the Dark Continent but you would lack the aesthetic that you have managed to capture so well with your collection.
Darrell.
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Thanks to all of you, that´s really great response.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Superb. The bright stripes against the white tunics (?) really sets off the figures. Is the clothing historically accurate or is that your interpretation? Apologies I'm not being picky but I know next to nothing about this period or region so its curious interest.
Thanks for your comment.
It is a little bit of both. Historical reports say that the Arab influenced people wore mostly white tunics with white and or cloured turban or red fez. The had also some coloured fabrics with stripes etc.
So they should be historically correct with a little bit of my own interpretation.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Thanks for your comment.
It is a little bit of both. Historical reports say that the Arab influenced people wore mostly white tunics with white and or cloured turban or red fez. The had also some coloured fabrics with stripes etc.
So they should be historically correct with a little bit of my own interpretation.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
Thanks for the reply. Well its excellent interpretation. :)
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Brilliant stuff, love the flesh tones and faces
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Splendid work all round :-* :-*
Almost tempting to start another period...
cheers
James
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More Africa,
as I said a few days ago I will post more of my stuff. Well, will do so now.
I finished two more bases of Ruga-Rugas bringing the unit now to five in total:
Those are absolutely 1st class - well done sir!!
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Hello Gentlemen,
I´m sorry but real life was very busy in the last weeks and so my Death in the Dark Continent project suffered.
The only little progress that I made is that I finished "Sefu" (Chief for my Congo Arabs). I´ve also managed to start with the three other miniatures on his base though I can´t make any promises when the complete base will be finished.
OK, hope you enjoy Sefu until I will post the complete base:
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Love it! :-*
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Sefu looks great, very impressive!
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That is a real nice figure. The face is full of character and the richness of the coat blue is lovely.
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That is a real nice figure. The face is full of character and the richness of the coat blue is lovely.
Agreed!
What a wonderful job you have made of a fantastic sculpt.
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OK, hope you enjoy Sefu
He's excellent 8)
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Hello Gentlemen
Today I have my update day on LAF. Kids have their after-lunch nap and Madame Moebius is out for shopping. Brilliant!
I´ve not managed to finish Sefus base but will show you the WIP. Also have pics of the finished Tetela warriors bases (matt varnish and bases finished).
Some weekends ago I visited the Crisis wargames show in Antwerp. Sometimes it is really funny, you have your pockets full of money and in then end it is the 10 € deal that makes your day.
I bought lots of Foundry bits from Dave T. who was there again with his Perry Miniatures stuff. The great thing was that I found a fist full of severed african heads on stakes. This bit is normally in a Foundry Force Publique blister but only one time. BINGO!
I know that sounds a little bit strange to be happy about a fist full of severed heads on stakes but this will make perfect wound markers for this project. ;D
O.K. will go on with this project and hope to keep it up to date in the next month.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Damn, I sure do like your work, as usual your painting is bloody brilliant.
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Damn, I sure do like your work, as usual your painting is bloody brilliant.
Me too!
Those Tetala wariors are simply: Exquisite!
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Thanks guys!
Makes me happy that you like my painting style.
Hope that I will get more of those Tetela warriors done in the future. They are a lot of fun to paint.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Great stuff as ever!
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Lovely stuff, great painting :)
I've always liked the Foundry Darkest Africa range. 8)
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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Beautiful painting. I can't believe I haven't written this note earlier… a sign of old age. Really wonderful work. Thanks for posting. Richard
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This is truly outstanding work! I'm never checking out the threads in Colonial Adventures but now that I've seen this I'll have look here more often.
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Hello dear Gentlemen,
tonight I finished the command base with Sefu and his retinue. It took far too long for my taste.
So my plan for 2014 is to minimum paint one base per month for my death in the dark continent project. That will end the year with 12 more bases. Not too much but still progress for painting my Darkest Africa collection. We will see, maybe I will end up with more.
Hope you like the command base for my Congo Arab army.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Superb base, great painting! :-*
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Excellent. :o
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Stunning paintwork, great base.
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I think that your face painting is some of the best I have seen.
They are always so expressive.
8)
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Splendid :-* :-*
cheers
James
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Once again, some brilliant painting enhanced by your basing. The dead tree looks very good.
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Wonderful :-*
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OMG :o. Excellent figures, great base - fantastic.
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:D
Many thanks gentlemen!
There are some more Tetela on my workbench right now.
Very evil cannibals >:(
Maybe they will hit this thread in January.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Hello Gentlemen,
Here is a Tetela Update as promised. Base two for the Jan 2014 ;)!
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Simply ruddy gorgeous, Doc!
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This thread is so good it makes me want to paint some Darkest Africa figures of my own.
Maybe when I do some Pulp shenanigans.... ::)
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Fantastic work, Alex!
Wo habe ich eigentlich meine Darkest Africa Minis ... 8)
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Really nice!
Maybe we should also organise an 'african partisan-con' in the future...
Wo habe ich eigentlich meine Darkest Africa Minis ... 8)
I bought some 20-30 of them at the Tactica some years ago when I started to play DA with the guys from Darmstadt.
But as they were all unpainted I think you don't mean them! ;)
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Very nice, I like the warpaint. It's tough to carefully paint something meant to look haphazard!
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Excellent as always :-* :-*
I think a group shot might be in order soon :D
cheers
James
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Upto your usual brilliance. Nice choice of blues on the witch doctors skirt and mask.
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Stop torturing me!!!
I have all these figures, and I want to paint them, but what will I do in the face of your supreme awesomeness of a paint job?! lol lol
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Awesome painting job, Alex, very inspiring, makes me want to dig out my DA stuff.
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It's tough to carefully paint something meant to look haphazard!
Yep, but you've done an excellent job, makes me want to start in on my DA collection again too :-*
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Beautiful work.
How about some group shots of each force? :D
Inspirational work!
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Excellent as always :-* :-*
I think a group shot might be in order soon :D
Many thanks to all of you!
I will see what I can do regarding the group shot of the different factions. Though all pictures here were made with my mobile phone. Hope that I can manage a group shot with the equipment I have.
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Really nice!
Maybe we should also organise an 'african partisan-con' in the future...
Great idea Turbo-Ben!
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On the workbench right now are some more skirmishing Tetela with fancy hair cuts armed with muskets.
Stay tuned :)
Dr. Moebius
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Amazing...it is hard to look through this thread and not feel inspired to have a go at Darkest Africa. Great, atmospheric work...!
Mike Demana
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Hello Gentleman,
with this post I just want to make a historical correction and give a little information about a purchase I made.
I´ve re read the book "The African Wars" by Chris Peers (published by Pen & Sword) a few days ago.
A few month ago I made a mistake by saying that Sefu is the nephew of Tippu Tip.
That´s not correct.
Sefu was the son of Tippu Tip and Rashid was the nephew of Tippu Tip. Just for the papers :-)
On page 147 in the book it says that Dhanis force had a single 75mm Krupp field gun.
Knowing that I like to replace the little gun in my collection with an appropriate model for my Force Publique collection.
I´ve ordered this beauty from Askari Miniatures a few days ago (along with some pack mules to carry it through the jungle)
http://www.askari-minis.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=23_45&products_id=90&zenid=1je339vc1ut06ivi4id5gq0b27 (http://www.askari-minis.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=23_45&products_id=90&zenid=1je339vc1ut06ivi4id5gq0b27)
I´m really looking forward to paint more stuff for the Force Publique as well in the next coming months.
Cheers
Dr. Moebius
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Hello,
as requested here some group shots. I tried my best :?
Force Publique so far
Still to do:
wound markers, some more baggage (mules), 75mm Krupp mountain gun, maybe a third Askari company, and of course more Tetela.
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And the the Arabs so far:
Still to do:
lots, lots, lots...
I think I have to do 4 times more bases than for the Force Publique o_o
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Excellent :-* :-*
Thank you kindly. Even though the pictures aren't the best the close ups more than compensate and it's great to get an overall idea :)
cheers
James
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Group photos are almost always impressive :)
Very cool!!!
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Group photos are almost always impressive :)
Very cool!!!
Indeed.
And these certainly, are as we know the level of quality on each of those bases.
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They look brilliant :-*
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Stunning stuff- not only the painting but the thought that has gone into designing the bases and how they interact.
Brill :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Darrell.
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I will see what I can do regarding the group shot of the different factions. Though all pictures here were made with my mobile phone. Hope that I can manage a group shot with the equipment I have.
Excellent!
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Hello,
I´m now doing a blog :D
http://www.moebiusminiaturemania.blogspot.de/ (http://www.moebiusminiaturemania.blogspot.de/)
Cheers
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Hello Gentlemen,
it´s bin a long time since I updated this thread.
Today I can show you two more Tetela bases. Skirmishers with muskets.
On my blog you can find more detailed pictures and a little bit more text.
http://www.moebiusminiaturemania.blogspot.de/ (http://www.moebiusminiaturemania.blogspot.de/)
Enjoy!
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Very nice.
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Not only have you inspired me into buying some Imperial Dwarves, I have now purchased some Ngoni due to this thread.
:D
I must confess that I shall be painting them in a strictly non-historical fashion, though.
;)
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Another excellent set of figures, and great basing too.
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Terrific as usual!!!
I always loved the white war paint look. I don't know if there's an actual basis for the use other than festive though. I'm going to put some on my all the same anyway. lol
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Excellent work, they look really frightening.
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Really wonderful… just repeating myself out of the pleasure of seeing this outstanding work. Thanks so much for these posts. Richard
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Great warpaint, really like the groundwork on the bases too
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Really wonderful… just repeating myself out of the pleasure of seeing this outstanding work. Thanks so much for these posts. Richard
Thanks so much for the great feedback to you and everybody else!
Alex
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Very nice.
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Not only have you inspired me into buying some Imperial Dwarves, I have now purchased some Ngoni due to this thread.
:D
Inspiring other painters is great! Ngoni is a good choice Mason, like the miniatures as well.
Thanks again.
Alex
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Hello,
for a long time this project was on hold. A few days ago I managed to paint up some more Wangwana for the Arab army.
Rather than fix them on multi bases I tried something new.
They are all on 5 cent coins and I build a multibase for them by using the usual 40x60mm base. I made use of neodyn magnets that will keep them in place once put on the base. So I can use the miniatures for DitdC and skirmishing systems as well.
I need to get back into my "normal" painting mojo as I think the paint job on them is not that crisp as for the other miniatures I have done for this project. Anyway - some new additions to go further with it.
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Both your figures and the bases are looking great, Alex. Smashing stuff, and many thanks for sharing!
Daryl
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Even if they are not up to your usual standard they still look great :-* :-*
cheers
James
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Good to see this come back to life. Was one of my favourite threads last year so nice to know there is now more to come.
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Good to see this come back to life. Was one of my favourite threads last year so nice to know there is now more to come.
My sentiments exactly.
Good to see it continue.
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I like the bases too.
I am going to do something similar with my Melniboneans (when I get around to them, that is...) as I want to be able to use them for skirmish as well as WFB3rd.
You should have seen the kerfuffle on the Oldhammer forum at the mention of cutting their base tabs off in order to fix them to washers... ;)
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Hello,
for a long time this project was on hold. A few days ago I managed to paint up some more Wangwana
And really lovely they are too :-* :-* :-*
Rather than fix them on multi bases I tried something new.
I had much the same problem with deciding about how to base my NWF and Indian Mutiny collection. At present all my Artizan NWF stuff is based on 25mm circles as it's going to be used for skirmish gaming. The regimental basing will come when the Perry's release their plastic box set and yes this is going to leave me with at least four NWF armies!! 8) 8) 8) 8)
My Indian Mutiny stuff will have he to be based on 18mm washers and fitted into sabot bases. I just don't have the heart (or the strength!) to go through it all again! lol
Darrell.
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Lovely looking figures, as usual. :D
Nice solution with the bases too. I've started to do a very similar thing with my medieval figures.
You should have seen the kerfuffle on the Oldhammer forum at the mention of cutting their base tabs off in order to fix them to washers... ;)
Just as well I haven't put any of my JD stuff up there on their resin bases... ;)
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Nice addition, glad to see more!
Basing is a perpetual headache for me, my collection is very inconsistent.
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Many thanks to all for the nice comments.
It seems that basing miniatures is a wargamers philosophy on it's own 😄
It is great to see that this project is followed with interest. I hope that I can show some more painted Darkest Africa soon. There is still lot of work to do for the Arab army.
Thank you
Alex
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Aaah the great debate, i've gone through a personal transformation of sorts, having ''grown up'' on slotta bases I never cared so much for miniatures that didn't have them.
Then I got out of GW and into various other ranges, nowadays I like my basing to be consistent so I can reuse miniatures for multiple systems and I find slotta bases to be off putting as they end up towering over the rest.
''You should have seen the kerfuffle on the Oldhammer forum at the mention of cutting their base tabs off in order to fix them to washers...''
Oldhammer is the exception though, cutting off the bases of old miniatures...sickening twisted stuff.
As for the stuff on display, it's quite inspiring I hope to have my colonial stuff similarly based so I can use it for battles and skirmish...if only I could find a decent sand/texture, the stuff I use makes my miniatures look like they're fighting in a quarry!
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Excellent stuff!!! :-*
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A lovely project for sure!!
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Thanks for your comment Lord Raglan.
I was surprised to find my own topic on the first page again after so many month'.
Yes, it is a great project that deserves more attention again.
Real life keeps me away from nearly all my hobby projects for around two years now. Right now we are moving house o_o. It alone took four full weekends to move my hobby room (time for a sale thread in the bazaar).
I hope that I can gt back to my favorite projects by beginning of the next year.
Cheers
Alexander
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Top notch painting and basing.
Mark
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Only caught this now. Great stuff.
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Hello again,
it´s been more than five years since I have updated this topic. That´s a long long time. Though I think it is worth to keep this going again.
I have been working on this project during these five years though not very much to be honest. But 2021 sound like a good year to go back to my African adventures.
I have a new way in basing my miniatures and a new unit of Congo Arabs as wll. And there is plenty of stuff on my workbench.
Please have a look on my blog to see more pictures http://moebiusminiaturemania.blogspot.com/ (http://moebiusminiaturemania.blogspot.com/)
Many thanks and keep safe.
Alex
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Love em nicely painted. I've just finished up an Arab army, for Africa, a couple of weeks ago myself.
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So much to love in this thread. Great to see you continuing it.
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Glad you’re back at it :)
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Glad you’re back at it :)
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What's five years after all? ;)
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Glad you’re back at it :)
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What's five years after all? ;)
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Indeed, what is five years when it is a thread like this that is revisited?
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More painted DA miniatures is always a good thing.
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Absolutely loving the figures, very inspiring work.
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
I have spend the last few days to paint more Arabs and made quite a lot of pictures of the collection with scenery shots as well.
Allied tribes have reported a major Arab attack on an Force Publique outpost in the near future...
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Compagnie en evant!
Baron Dhanis orders his troops to a counter attack.
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From which direction will they attack?
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The Congo Arab force of Sheik Sefu so far. I've managed to add 8 new bases to the force.
Plenty more will be needed. 4 bases of Balushi coming next.
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Great stuff and glad to see you return to the subject matter 8)
I love the guy with the arrow in his solar plexus. Excellent work :-*
Did you haver to convert the miniatures posture?
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Great stuff and glad to see you return to the subject matter 8)
I love the guy with the arrow in his solar plexus. Excellent work :-*
Did you haver to convert the miniatures posture?
Thanks.
No, he is just out of the blister from Foundry Askaris Casualties. I have added the arrow and put the miniature next to the dead tree. That's it.
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Thanks.
No, he is just out of the blister from Foundry Askaris Casualties. I have added the arrow and put the miniature next to the dead tree. That's it.
Still, it's a blinder of a little vignette :-*