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Author Topic: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)  (Read 11645 times)

Offline Plynkes

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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #90 on: April 13, 2021, 10:41:48 PM »
Thanks, Jack. I agree, I have never played Black Powder, and probably never will, but I bought that book for the eye-candy pics and the figure! Just never got around to painting it.





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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #91 on: April 15, 2021, 08:05:52 AM »
I was looking at a wonderful old print of the battle of Tamai earlier, which shows Highlanders and sailors from the Naval Brigade in close combat with Beja around a Gatling gun. One of the tars struck me as great fodder for a conversion if you felt like doing it. He appears to be a petty officer (roughly equivalent to a sergeant I think, but his rank insignia is quite indistinct, so he may something else - but he is almost certainly what in the Army you would call an NCO) and Instead of wearing his regulation headgear he has a very piratical bandana on his head, and he has a Navy cutlass bayonet between his teeth! He may as well have a speech bubble saying "Arrrrrr! I'm a pirate!" :)


I imagine there is quite a bit of artistic licence going on there, but it might be fun to depict such a fellow. Maybe not with the blade between his teeth, that might be tricky, but brandishing it ready to go and in his buccaneer fancy dress hat might be cool. Just a thought.



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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #92 on: April 15, 2021, 03:52:39 PM »
Plynkes I have seen that picture and that sailor stuck out to me! I will have some extra crew as I plan on using the Perry miniature Gatling gun (it's bigger than the empress). I also bought the empress gun and have the extra crew from that set.

I don't know about my ability to model sword in teeth (seems like a nautical thing I've seen other paintings/drawings depicting the pirates that way) but someone ready to defend the guns as opposed to fire the guns would be great.

Cheers for your continued interest!

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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #93 on: April 17, 2021, 11:29:29 AM »
Do you have link for an online source for the print?

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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #94 on: April 17, 2021, 11:47:06 AM »
Not a very good one:

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-war-in-the-soudan-1883-1885-gallant-recapture-of-the-news-photo/1166203820?adppopup=true


(You can just make out our pirate friend on the right under the Getty Images watermark thing.)

There is a nice big version in the Mike Snook book, and I seem to remember it being in one of the old Ospreys too. I think maybe the Khartoum campaign one.


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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #95 on: April 17, 2021, 02:00:08 PM »
Ah! Yes! I know it, and you’re right about the reproductions … though Snook’s is cropped.

I think the fellow on the left with the ammo mule may be Private Thomas Edwards, who won a VC for defending the Gatling guns … I plan to model him in a little vignette.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edwards_(VC)

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Re: Operations in the Sudan (4/13/21; Captain pg. 6)
« Reply #96 on: April 17, 2021, 07:37:36 PM »
Here’s the picture detail taken from a snapshot of the Snook book.


 

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