Farwell, Südwest Afrika Camel Corps

[Hammers]

I am about to pass this half troop on to a fellow Lead Adventurer so I though I'd take a last photo with these old battle axes before they trudge away over the sands to the shore where the crew of UB40 is waiting to tie them to the deck. Lets hope they are decent enough to let the Corpsmen stay bellow deck.



They are OOP HLBSC Südwest Africa Camel Corps. Not the greatest miniatures i ever painted, nor my best paint job, but surprisingly the only 25-28mm ones that's been arround the last 10 years or so.  The set contains a dismounted rider and a resting camel to.

[Plynkes]

Wow! The way you were talking about them made them sound like a right old sack of shit. They look great! Enough with the modesty already!  

My half of the prisoner exchange was despatched today, by the way. I should not have agreed to the terms had I known how cool those figs were. I feel like I have pulled a con-job on you.

[Svennn]

so Plynkes is the lucky recipient then - jealous me I say

there is so much WW1 listed on the HLBS site that sounds quite interesting but does not have photographic accompanyment. I have some of the Great White North stuff and that paints up lovely. Any body got some they could take pics of.

back to the camels - they are lovely

[Plynkes]

By the way, did they have them in Ostafrika? I thought they were a Südwestafrika thing.

[Hammers]

According to my sources you only found the Camel Corps in Südwestafrika where they saw limited action against the Herero. Unlike Ostafrika, Südwestafrika and Kamerun struck their colours pretty promptly against the Belgians, Portugese and South Africans and the Engländer.

And there's no false modesty here. It's just my opinion. :-)

Edit: Ah now I see why you are asking about Ostafrika. I did a booboo in the subject. It's been corrected. Now, release the priest, you heathen, or I will shoot these camels!

[PeteMurray]

I also want to chastise you for false modesty, Clogged One.  ::

They're lovely, and I'm glad to see they're headed for a good home. Thus may all our figures leave our hands and go to those who will put them to good use.

[Malamute]

I think they are lovely too

[Plynkes]

I remember a cool Great War SW Africa scenario in a now-defunct wargaming magazine I used to subscribe to. I think it had camel jockeys in it.

I'm tempted to dig it out. Trouble is, I'm gonna have to start searching eBay to find more of the blighters, enough to make a unit out of.

[Hammers]

I think Brigade makes hereros and Eureka makes Portugese. I don't know if anyone makes WWI Congo Belgians. South Africans used British kits, didn't they?

[Plynkes]

I'm not so keen on doing the Herero stuff, more interested in the Great War.

You're right, the South Africans look similar enough that I could just use my Brits. That's one of the things that makes it appealing. I also have Brigade Games Schutztruppen in brimmed hats, who fulfil the quite lax 'near enough' standards that I use when choosing figures.

Kamerun would be nice, but the German Askaris there had different uniforms to the ones in East Africa, and nobody makes them. I have Force Publique Askaris, both Foundry ones in the pre-war uniforms and Brigade ones in the mid-war transitional outfit. I also have so Belgian trench mortars I'm dying to use.

French Askaris for Africa would be cool, but I've not seen any.

[axabrax]

They look fantastic. I didn't even know these figs existed. I've been waiting for Brigade Games to come out with some...

[matakishi]

Oh yeah, those are the bees knees (that's English for 'very good')
I have some Sudan Camel Corps to do and seeing these might get them to jump the queue.

[Helen]

Hi Folks, for Peder and Poly, Sorry guys I forgot to get around to sharing the story of the chase undertaken by Empire forces in rounding up some German Cameliers who were trying to reach Lettow in GEA.

I'm off to a gaming convention shorthly, but on my return will sit down and map out the story on this amzaing adventure. There was an Aussie involved too who later was to become a bit of a legend with Lettow :-)

Best Wishes

[Hammers]

Hi Folks, for Peder and Poly, Sorry guys I forgot to get around to sharing the story of the chase undertaken by Empire forces in rounding up some German Cameliers who were trying to reach Lettow in GEA.

I'm off to a gaming convention shorthly, but on my return will sit down and map out the story on this amzaing adventure. There was an Aussie involved too who later was to become a bit of a legend with Lettow :-)

Best Wishes

Well, it that ain't a teaser I don't know what is!

Have fun, H!

[Svennn]

have any of you guys got or seen the Castaway Arts Sudan camel riders?

Wondered if they were suitable for adding some variety to the Perry ones.

can we have some more pics of these when they arrive Plynkes please???