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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 04:06:31 PM »
Sweet, thanks for the link. Nice to see photos of Ila in action!
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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 04:09:08 PM »
 :o Thanks!

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 04:47:15 PM »
Awesome!

And a really good edition of WI. The first i've bought in a while.

Mind you, i do wish to take issue with Mr Peers. :D

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 06:29:14 PM »
Squinting at my copy I notice that there's possibly more in store for March, the front of the mag has FFL in Africa on it.

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2012, 06:22:10 PM »
Shiny! I'll buy a copy.
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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2012, 08:18:43 PM »
My favourite issue of WI for ages. Still just 1 big advert for FoW though. ;)
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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2012, 01:17:30 PM »
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet! It's DA revival... I need to get my hands on this issue ASAP.

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 09:45:14 PM »
Most interesting issue for me in ages. Wish it was always like this. That's the trouble with "theme" issues. If you're not interested in the theme (or FOW) then you have nothing to read.

I like the idea of having extra photos on the website to compliment the ones in the printed issue.
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Offline Fanis

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2012, 11:40:22 PM »
Many thanks for pointing us to these downloads. I enjoyed reading Chris Peers' thought on African warfare.

Lads on page 67 of the Guns and Spears download there is a picture of a mini with an explorer riding a bull/water buffalo or whatever it is. Any idea if that is a conversion or a Foundry figure which is now no longer in production? The rider certainly smacks of Foundry in terms of sculpting style.

Cheers  ;)

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2012, 11:51:58 PM »
It's one of several such conversions done by Kevin Dallimore, putting foot figures on ox mounts. It is a Foundry David Livingstone, rather heavily converted (arms repositioned, weapon added, legs cut off and then repositioned in a riding pose). He describes the method in the painting and modelling book he did for Foundry.

He did a similar thing with the Sam Baker figure.


I've got a dim recollection that Foundry may have done an ox-mounted figure once. A rebel askari or something like that. But my memory is failing me.

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2012, 11:55:41 PM »
aaah! talented git that Dallimore fella!  :)

Many thanks for the reply mate.

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2012, 12:06:22 AM »
I've got a dim recollection that Foundry may have done an ox-mounted figure once. A rebel askari or something like that. But my memory is failing me.


Found my old DA colour catalogue sheet. There was an ox-mounted figure. One of two "Askari Rebels" that were given away if you bought the entire "Mountains of the Moon" collection. The other is an immaculate askari wearing a white officer's uniform, holding an umbrella in one hand and a pith helmet in the other. Presumably they could be simply be bought when the range first started, before they began all that bonus figure nonsense.

Two DA figures I do not own, dagnabbit! Not many DA figures Plynkes does not own. A very small and exclusive club, that is. :)

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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2012, 12:34:37 AM »
I have one that a friend painted a few years back but it is not one to part with, very rare.  :P


Found my old DA colour catalogue sheet. There was an ox-mounted figure. One of two "Askari Rebels" that were given away if you bought the entire "Mountains of the Moon" collection. The other is an immaculate askari wearing a white officer's uniform, holding an umbrella in one hand and a pith helmet in the other. Presumably they could be simply be bought when the range first started, before they began all that bonus figure nonsense.

Two DA figures I do not own, dagnabbit! Not many DA figures Plynkes does not own. A very small and exclusive club, that is. :)
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Re: Original Darkest Africa rules & articles on WI website
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2012, 02:48:27 PM »
In total there were 4 'Askari Rebels' models avaliable as limited editions. I've managed to get my hands on all of them from Ebay, they very rarely come up though and I've never seen them go for less than a fiver each.

A couple of years ago I spoke to someone at Foundry about them, and I was told they planned to make them avaliable again in a blister pack, obviously that never happened which is a real shame.

 

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