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Offline Belisarius

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Arab / Slavers cannon
« on: August 23, 2012, 03:41:58 PM »
I felt the need to beef up my Arabs and envisaged an Arab master gunner supported by local levies manning a looted ships cannon, perhaps mounted on a tower or on the ramparts of a mud brick fort or Tempe,or possibly the deck of a Dhoy. Anyways it should give any Colonial landing party a pause for thought.

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 07:18:09 PM »
very nice, whose the maker!

Nice scenery as well!

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 07:48:22 PM »
All figures are ansar conversions, gun barrel is a left over from Victrix British artillery with the carriage scratch built and walls and doorway foamboard and card.

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2012, 01:58:26 AM »
Very nice!  :)
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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2012, 07:05:52 AM »
Lovely work.

I keep thinking about using the Perry plastic Ansar as Nile Arab Slavers
"Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!"

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2012, 11:14:20 AM »
love the setting sun scenario on part two.........great work

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2012, 02:25:59 PM »
Great work. A nice usage of models.

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2012, 08:16:06 PM »
Setting sun ? that,s dawn breaking - can,t you smell the coffee brewing ? sniff, sniff - what is that smell ?

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2012, 09:11:13 AM »
Great conversion work (& painting too!)  8).

Did you take any pics as you were converting the miniatures? If so I'd love to see them.

Darrell.

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2012, 05:00:27 PM »
Beautiful work. Nothing says Arab slavers like an old cannon. Always leaves the European forces shaking their heads and womdering "what the #%$* was that, and how did they get it here?"

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2012, 08:09:31 PM »
Kind comments gentlemen and much appreciated. A few photos of a coffle at the run, awaiting a primer spray, and some more of the dastardly slavers, I was going for a Turkish or what I imagined a Zanzibar look.

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2012, 05:05:52 AM »
Very interesting conversions, and nicely painted too.  Thanks for sharing.

-Michael

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2012, 04:16:17 PM »
First paint on the captured slaves and the dispicable slavers

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2012, 04:19:46 PM »
Anyone 4 anymore ?

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Re: Arab / Slavers cannon
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2012, 04:23:19 PM »
Stop me somebody ! :P

 

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