Back to Africa: Mirambo!

[Plynkes]

Remembered where the captive came from:

Amazon Miniatures "Female captives tied over horses."

A bit of filling was required to make her look right, as there were odd gaps due to her captor not being the shape of a horse's back.

[Admiral Benbow]

Frankensteining figures together might be a step up from headswaps but it is still a galaxy away from actual proper sculpting.

That is definitely correct! 

Some help with Green Stuff:

- Don't mix up the yellow and blue components in equal amounts; yes, I know, instructions say so, but the stuff is much better to handle when you mix it with around 60% yellow and 40% blue. The less blue you use, the softer the green stuff.

- After mixing, let it alone for around 10 - 15 minutes. Immediately after mixing the stuff sticks like ape-shit (as we say here ...) and is less controllable. After 15 minutes it has started to set, but you still have 1 - 1,5 hours to work with it. Because of this, mix only small quantities.

- Keep your tools wet when working with Green Stuff. I use a wet piece of foam in a blister package to dunk my tools into; some people lick their tools to keep them wet, but that's not my way ...

- If you wait longer, you can even roll out the stuff using a bottle and some talkum powder. Then you cut out pieces with your knife, wet them again, put them onto your figs and create shirts, bandoliers and other cloth parts. That's also the best way to get sharp edges on the stuff.

I'll stop here and hope you'll give it another try. The stuff is easy after getting used to it and not as messy as Milliput.
 

[Ignatieff]

Wow!  Awesome!    Great map as well - self generated? or does anyone know of good clear maps from 1914 for East/Central Africa???  I have a couple of atlas's from the time, but bloody useless for campaign maps (too much irrelevant detail)

[Plynkes]

I stole the map from the Wikipedia entry on Msiri , I'm afraid.


Thanks for the Green Stuff tips, Admiral. I'll persevere a bit more with it now I'm armed with this info.

[cram]

Really lovely painting, the conversion work is fantastic 

[Tellus]

Outstanding conversions and painting, brilliant fluff and info - just great!
 

I totally agree with that statement.
Hats off to Mr. Plynkes

[Hammers]

"We find him to be the dopest, flyest, O.G. pimp-hustler-gangster-player, hardcore M*** living today. To be honest I am totally and completely On. His. Dick." Queen Victoria.

Now, *that* is what I call VSF!

[Gluteus Maximus]

That is definitely correct! 

Some help with Green Stuff:

- Don't mix up the yellow and blue components in equal amounts; yes, I know, instructions say so, but the stuff is much better to handle when you mix it with around 60% yellow and 40% blue. The less blue you use, the softer the green stuff.

- After mixing, let it alone for around 10 - 15 minutes. Immediately after mixing the stuff sticks like ape-shit (as we say here ...) and is less controllable. After 15 minutes it has started to set, but you still have 1 - 1,5 hours to work with it. Because of this, mix only small quantities.

- Keep your tools wet when working with Green Stuff. I use a wet piece of foam in a blister package to dunk my tools into; some people lick their tools to keep them wet, but that's not my way ...

- If you wait longer, you can even roll out the stuff using a bottle and some talkum powder. Then you cut out pieces with your knife, wet them again, put them onto your figs and create shirts, bandoliers and other cloth parts. That's also the best way to get sharp edges on the stuff.

I'll stop here and hope you'll give it another try. The stuff is easy after getting used to it and not as messy as Milliput.
 

Admiral,

thanks very much for those tips. I always find greenstuff is a little "stiff" to work with with the 50/50 mix. I've got some converting to do later, so will be trying your ideas, especially the 60/40 one. I might even try to make some shirts and waistcoats etc - but that might be too ambitious 

I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates this and would like to read any more hints and tips you have on modelling 

[Furt]

Plynkes - just seen these. Bloody great work - I love seeing the research and background u put in your projects.

[Grimm]

fantastic work !!
what can I say the stuff is so good painted and the conversions are made with genius skills .

thanks for showing them

Grimm

[sepoy1857]

Brilliant! Like everything - very nice work on the conversions.

[Tsune]

Great conversions and oustanding work... very nice!

[H.M.Stanley]

I wanna do Ruga-Ruga too.

Now when i say "do", i don't mean in the biblical sense!!

Love your quote by Queen Vic in the opening post

[Bugsda]

Brilliant bit of brilliance, my favourite Plynkes' so far 

[Plynkes]

Thanks. Hopefully there will actually be something new on this front soon. Though I'm not inspired about painting Ruga Ruga right now, I'm painting some Watuta tonight, and even though they will have their first appearance in an unrelated game, their eventual destiny is to be part of Mirambo's army: Mercenary scum who have tagged along for a share of the plunder, and all perfectly historical.