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Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen in tribal wars
« Reply #45 on: January 04, 2013, 07:41:07 PM »
Thanks Mason, Im glad you liked it.

A new small unit for my Tribal African project.

Married Zulus
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/01/married-zulus.html




Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen in tribal wars
« Reply #46 on: January 07, 2013, 12:37:54 PM »
Some trackers for my project.
Ive given them wirespears and skipped shields to lighten up the armament on the troops and make them look like lighter skirmishers.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/01/african-trackers.html





Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen in tribal wars
« Reply #47 on: January 24, 2013, 01:15:02 PM »
A new tribe... Warlords Games Kushites.
Many many more pictures as well as some more text can be found at > http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/01/kushites.html


Besides using them in my Tribal Africa project they could be used against (and in service as mercenaries to) Egyptians, Persians even later the Romans.  :D











Thanks for looking.

Offline The Gray Ghost

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Kushites
« Reply #48 on: January 27, 2013, 04:47:34 PM »
Really like those Kushites, didn't they used to be from another company?
« Last Edit: January 27, 2013, 05:04:02 PM by The Gray Ghost »
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore and what is it seems weird and scary.

Offline Slayer

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Kushites
« Reply #49 on: February 10, 2013, 02:21:18 AM »
really great figures and paint jobs, finding the whole project very inspirational  :)

u got more planned or this is all the forces u doing? 

thanks for sharing.


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Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Kushites
« Reply #50 on: April 08, 2013, 09:33:42 PM »
Thanks guys.

Slayer: I add things all along when I find the inspiration.
I should really focus on two main tribes and just add things to those but I find new "shiny" stuff all the time so that original plan failed.

Things I have considered but not done yet is getting some pygmies and Ilas. It would be fun to get a full Masai tribe later on but the cost of Foundry is holding me back at that. At the moment I should focus on the things I got in the drawer and paint that before I ad more miniatures to the leadmountain.


And a new update.
More pictures @ http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/04/beja-swordsmen.html

I needed a little painting brake from the last Napoleonic unit and my current main project so I painted up these fellows for my Tribal African project, some Beja Swordsmen.
With their white clothes and swords these are a little to civilised for my taste but they will make a striking unit clad in white on the tabletopp.




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Re: Jungle Queen and the Beja swordsmen
« Reply #51 on: April 09, 2013, 05:52:04 AM »
more nice looking figures, glad to see your back into it.

Keep it up  ;)

You've given me the bug now, ive painted up 30 (25 to go) of cobblestones Ngoni figures, plus built them a village and started a gunboat. Most modelling iv gone for years :o :D :D


Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Beja swordsmen
« Reply #52 on: April 09, 2013, 07:58:26 AM »
Thanks, glad to inspire.

You just got to show them off here on LAF, Slayer  :D

Offline Slayer

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Beja swordsmen
« Reply #53 on: April 09, 2013, 09:07:14 AM »
ill post up here after the next lot done and all basing is done...

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Beja swordsmen
« Reply #54 on: April 09, 2013, 09:31:13 AM »
WOW!
I draw my hat to every aspect of Your project.
If this is not the kind of creativity with historical background I like then I don't know what else could be.
This might rather belong into the fantasy or pulp board, but it is hardly important.

Others add mammoths that help building pyramids and make movies out of it.
Speaking of which - have You considered using the LOTR Olifants?

Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Beja swordsmen
« Reply #55 on: April 09, 2013, 11:47:36 AM »
Thanks, former user. Much appreciated.

There will be no Oliphants here, maybe some Elephants later on thou.

I wanted this project to be historical before the "white man" and gunpowder.

That’s at least the original plan.
The none-historical part is that I’m mixing different tribes over time and almost all over Africa. I know that its historical disgusting but I motivate it by a tribe could very well resemble another tribe and over hundred or even thousands of years with little if none written history many different people must have lived at this great continent. And by same logic the “pulpy” looking fellows could be just a small group of people that tried a new way to intimidate their opponents.
As history probably shows this is not the best way to oppose your enemy and that group died of. But let’s face it, I don’t expect most inhabitants to live very long in this project…

And if I can find a way to use those cheap plastic kits that’s now present on the markets even better for this growing sideproject.  Unfortunately this means that cheap plastic Zulus will face a tribe from far far away, but maybe its not really the Zulus but a tribe looking very similar to them and we players just call them that to easier recognize them.

And another reason would of course be that I will probably not start any other project that lets me use all this shiny African stuff…
Thanks for showing interest.

Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen and the Beja swordsmen
« Reply #56 on: May 04, 2013, 07:48:30 AM »
Some new light infantry for my Zulus.
Kitbashed some of Warlords plastic Zulus with some extra Perrys arms and some wirespears thrown in to the lot.

More pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/05/zulu-light-infantry.html





Cornering my daughters dreaded monkey, we have him now...

Offline Slayer

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Re: Jungle Queen and Zulu light infantry
« Reply #57 on: May 04, 2013, 10:17:45 AM »
id say that monkey is in trouble  lol

They look very nice, glad to see you're adding to your forces  :)

Offline Engel

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Re: Jungle Queen and Zulu light infantry
« Reply #58 on: May 25, 2013, 09:31:14 PM »
Thanks Slayer.


New tribal warriors. More Kushites from Warlord Games.
More pictures at http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/05/kushite-warband.html






These are my last Kushite miniatures from my Lead pile and I am wondering what I should get next for them.
Im thinking on getting more archers of the same type I previously painted to this tribe but Im also thinking on getting them some more elite, guard type of miniatures.
Warlord Games doesn’t do any guard type of Kushite so one option would be to paint the shields, clothes and the warpaint somewhat different but I think it would be more fun to try to find some other companies miniatures to add to my Kushite collection.
Im thinking on maybe looking at old Egyptian miniature lines and try to find some that could fit.

Any one got any good ideas that would be much appreciated, thanks.
« Last Edit: May 25, 2013, 09:41:43 PM by Engel »

Offline Slayer

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Re: Jungle Queen and Kushites
« Reply #59 on: May 25, 2013, 10:02:40 PM »
love that war paint, so well done

any chance of a group shot at some point??

 

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