Koyote's SAGA Moors & Mutatawwi'a

[Ogrob]

Very clean greenstuff work, surely these will turn out very nice in the end.

[Koyote]

One down, four to go.

[mikedemana]

Awesome stuff, as usual! I agree...that is amazing attention to detail to fix the feet of the camel. 

Mike Demana
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Koyote]

Thanks Mike.


I used a rotary tool to carve away the riders' original saddles.  For those who sit with legs on either side of the camel, I had to widen their stance as well.  Once fitted to their mount, I used greenstuff to rebuild the parts that were damaged or carved away.

All that's left to do is to add texture to the bases and my camel cavalry are ready for paint.

I don't yet have good recipe for painting camels, so I will primer a test model or two to practice on. Good thing I have plenty of extras.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Continually great and inspirational work mate. I look forward to seeing how you paint the camels as I have a pack camel I need to paint.

[Hu Rhu]

Very nice additions and conversions.    I used Foundry Drab 3 with its three layers, when I painted my camels.  I am sure that similar shades exist in other paints as well.

[Koyote]

June was a slow hobby month.  My home, like most homes in Western Washington, doesn't have central air conditioning.  Painting in the baking heat with a fan blowing on me is both unpleasant and unproductive, so I spent my relatively few hobby hours in June planning and assembling my Age of Hannibal Graeculi warband.

Things have cooled down enough for me to start thinking about putting paint on minis again.  Near the top of my painting to-do list are my Mutatawwi'a warlord and hearthguard.  All five models have been primered and are ready for paint, but my warlord needed a proper display base, so I updated the magnetized display base I originally built for my mounted Moor warlord.  I added a mace an a greenstuff scarf to the horn blower, and replaced the original standard bearer with a different Brother Vinni Arabian model.  I still need to glue texture to it, but once done, it will be ready for paint.



My 75mm display base isn't permissible under the rules (a Warlord's base caps out at 60mm),  but if you've followed my other threads, you will know that during game play, I prefer to keep my warlords on standard size bases.  Thus, my display bases are exactly as described, purely for display purposes only.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Looking good mate! Stay cool.

[mikedemana]

That has to be brutal out there in the Pacific NW! Luckily, I live in the Midwest, where we swing from sweltering to bone chilling on an annual -- if not monthly -- basis! 

Looking good! Always fun to see your updates. I wish I had your craftsmanship in modifying figs...

Mike Demana
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Hu Rhu]

Very cool - even if you can't be. 

[Koyote]

I finished assembling my Muslim themed baggage and objective markers.  All that's left to do is to add texture to the bases, primer, and paint.

As I posted earlier, these baggage and objective markers are designed to be use in conjunction with one another for the Ambush scenario, or independently of one another.

In preparation for Adepticon, I put paint on these objective markers.  They make more sense when combined with the baggage markers, but as stand alone they aren’t they aren’t half bad.

[Atheling]

Fab work Kayote. 

I have to say, your putty work is really getting very good. Imporving with each post in fact 

[Koyote]

The next Saga tournament on my radar is an Age of Crusades event in July of this year.  Consequently, it's time to revive this thread. 

I brought my Moors to Adepticon 2022 and played them in the Age of Melee event. I also used several units from my Moors warband as models for the Adepticon Age of Magic tournament, where I played them as my Lords of the Wild Deep Desert Nomads

To be quite honest, I was never entirely satisfied with my Moors' blue color scheme, so in the Autumn of 2023 I gave many of them away and replaced them with different models painted differently. In September of 2023 brought my (mostly) new Deep Desert Nomad warband to a local AoM event. This event provided me with the motivation to paint the replacement models and to finally get my camels painted.  And now that I have an AoC event in July, I (fingers crossed) will have the motivation to paint the additional models that I will need to play a 6 point Muslim warband as Moors or Mutatawwi'a.

Below are some photos from 2023, depicting units from my AoM warband. Once I have time, I will reshoot the units, organized and updated for Age of Crusades. For the time being, please excuse my inclusion of AoM minis in this Medieval forum.

I replaced my original Gripping Beast Arab Infantry with Perry Miniatures' Afghan Tribesmen.



I replaced my original, fully veiled Footsore archers with different Footsore archers. The unit leader is a converted Brother Vinni model and the standard bearer is a Perry Afghan. I have since added another group of models to the mix, these ones in green and brown.  I'll provide updated photos, later.




I didn't replace my mounted warriors. Rather, I repainted the blue match the blue that I used on my infantry models.




Next are my camel cavalry, which will act as HG in the Mutatawwi'a version of this warband.




Finally, here's my Warlord mounted on a camel and a couple of AoM character models.



The model on the left is my Warlord on foot. The model next to him is a AoM Sorcerer.

[Basementboy]

Fantastic stuff as always! The carpet is gorgeous

[Koyote]

For my Moors, I am experimenting with the following list.

WL -mtd
1.5 pts HG -mtd + jav
3 pts Warriors
1.5 pts Levy -9 bows & 9 xbows

I built the following Arab crossbowmen in 2021, using the head and body from Gripping Beast's Arab Infantry kit and the arms and crossbows from Fireforge Games' Foot Sergeant kit.




Compare to Victrix's kits and my Perry Minitures' Afghans, the GB Arab infantry look a bit short and dumpy.  Using metal wire and greenstuff dowels, I extended the legs of the GB Arab infantry to add height to the models. I then used GS to to cover up the extension with poofy pants. Their proportions are off (their belts up way up high like how old men wear them), but I think they turned out pretty good.

From left to right: GB no extension, GB with extensions, Perry Afghan.




The guy on the far right is a bit silly. It looks like he is leaning back, tracking something up above him. Perhaps he's watch the flight of incoming arrows...  Or Superman.