Perry Mahdist Ansars and British for the Sudan (updated 14 10 21)

[Atheling]

Lovely clean and crisp brushwork on those little fellows 

[Mad Guru]

Beautiful paint jobs, and subtly artful basing as well!  The Mahdists look great and the khaki British are simply gorgeous!

[VonAkers]

TP
Those figures look really very nice indeed .
In particular I like the basing , gets  the "swarm look "just right .
Well Done .
Cheers

[TacticalPainter]

The project has moved along at a good pace and it has inspried me to finally taken the plunge and make my own terrain mat. Not quite as daunting as I imagined and I'm very happy with the end result and so I thought I'd document the progress and what I've learned for others in a blog post you can find here https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2021/09/making-desert-mat-for-sudan.html

[Marine0846]

Well done on the mat.
I just watched the Four Feathers movie(1939)again.
I watch it every couple of years.
I think by far the best of all the movies for the period.
I love the part of the gunboat coming up the Nile.

[commissarmoody]

I just watched the Four Feathers movie(1939)again.
I watch it every couple of years.
I think by far the best of all the movies for the period.
I love the part of the gunboat coming up the Nile.

Agreed, but I did also enjoy Storm Over the Nile and the 1978 version since we had that in my VHS collection as a kid. 

[Plynkes]

A cool thing about the Korda version is that the gunboats you see are ones that actually took part in the real Omdurman campaign.

And those are real Hadendowa, brandishing real swords in the mass battle scenes.  Shows how iconic those fellows are: They were shipped in hundreds of miles from the Red Sea coast, so the battle scenes would have the 'right' look (if it's the Sudan you must have Fuzzy-Wuzzies). So it isn't just wargamers who erroneously use their Beja figures for the inland campaigns, film makers do it too! 

[2010sunburst]

Wouldn’t mind betting some of those swords were used in the Omdurman campaign as well….perhaps even some of the Hadendowa were there as youngsters?

[Plynkes]

It's certainly possible. That was one show away from the coast that Osman Digna and his boys did make the trip for, even if they no longer had their iconic haircuts.

[TacticalPainter]

Added this Perry Gardner gun and crew to the British collection. Lovely Perry sculpts as always. This now gives me a 24pt force for both British and Beja for The Men Who Would Be Kings. Never played the rule set and so we will try it out later this week.

[gamer Mac]

Cracking job
I really like the wood on the rifles

[Codsticker]

Beautiful painting on that gun crew.

[TacticalPainter]

Completed a few rocky outcrop terrain pieces to go with the desert game mat. I've used pine bark as the basis for the rocks and I think it's a material that works very well at this scale. I've done a more detailed step-by-step of the process that you can find on the blog here https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2021/10/making-rocky-outcrops-for-arid-terrain.html

The core shape was made using insulating foam on an MDF base and the pine bark pieces were glued around it.


The top and sides were filled with household multi-purpose filler and textured with sand and cat litter.



The finished results:

[Grumpy Gnome]

Lots to love here, particularly that naval unit. Great stuff!

[Lord Raglan]

beautifully done sir