Cairo People

[tabletop]

Say, can anybody recommend a 28mm manufacturer that does a line of Cairo bystanders? I'm looking for fez wearing gentlemen in disha dashas, wily street urchins etc.

Basically any Egyptian civilians NOT wielding pistols, musketry or swords...

[lgkmas]

Try Eureka Miniaures. Their 28mm range under civilians and vignettes has a market stall and about a dozen different arab type civilians, including urchins.
try this link
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_138&products_id=1778

regards
Bob

[Hammers]

West Wind makes them to. Look under Chaos in Kairo.

[tabletop]

Thanks lgkmas, those Eureka figures aren't great but they're passable for hapless bystanders.

hammershield, you couldn't provide a link at all? All I can see under West Winds CiC pages is a handful of adventurers...

[Hammers]

Thanks lgkmas, those Eureka figures aren't great but they're passable for hapless bystanders.

They are not bad at all. Some are quitre humorous, if you are of simple tastes like me. One's selling a chicken, a woman is rooting through a bargain bin. You could also consider the indian civilian packs. Some of the male miniatures could pass for arabs.

hammershield, you couldn't provide a link at all? All I can see under West Winds CiC pages is a handful of adventurers...

Well slap my face and call me Sally! They must have dropped them from the range because they are no longer listed on the West Wind site. I did howerver find them at Old Glory which is the US distributor.

http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/products.asp?cat=502

I have mixed in some african civilians from Foundry in my Zanzibar street scene.

[tabletop]

Thanks hammershield! I ordered a bunch of stuff from OG yesterday...

Now the long wait begins ... (I live in Auckland, New Zealand).

[tabletop]

Finally got around to applying some paint to the West Wind Cairo civilians I ordered a couple of months ago. Not stellar paint jobs like some I've seen on here, but passable for bystanders for Pulp gaming I hope!

[Argonor]

Absolutely passable if you ask me! Could I just pull myself together and get some of my own westwind civilians done, I'd be happy to paint them to that standard  

[Operator5]

That's passable? Sheesh! Looks like I just paint crap then.  

Great job Stu.

[Malamute]

Yep, I agree, nothing wrong with those paint jobs :love:

[tabletop]

Thanks all. Civilians are harder to paint than I initially thought because you actually have to make some interesting colour choices!

I guess I'm too used to painting WWII DAK Germans with their green/grey/khaki uniforms, or Baluchi Zombies who are mostly brown. I had force myself to add some colour to these three rather than paint them all brown and white

I'm not sure what's wrong with the chap in the middle either, because he's been sculpted with a very odd face. I think he's meant to represent some kind of wounded beggar (judging from his hands) or other unfortunate.

[Hammers]

Agreed. And you have made some good choices.

I am currently painting a 20 or so miniture  mix of WestWind and Eureka Middleeasterners and I am somewhat struggling with coming up with new combinations of tans, whites and a splash of color.

And yes, West Wind puts some odd faces and poses on some of their miniatures.

[Colonel Tubby]

I also note that the new Blue Moon Miniature set 'I Just Don't feel My Age' has some nice Cario Civilians - including a nice looking digger with a shovel!

[tabletop]

Say you couldn't provide a link to those Cairo civvies you mention could you? A 10 second Google search failed to find me Blue Moon Miniatures...

Thanks!

[dominic]

Lovely paint job!