(Army Painters) British Askari

[verd]

Bloody brilliant!!! 

[marianas_gamer]

Great group, fantastic textiles and conversion 
LB

[Plynkes]

Man, why isn't this in Colonial Adventures? Had no idea this thread existed until Dr. M. referenced it in his thread about Sikhs today, and even then it took me ages to find it. LAF has got so big that there are whole regions of it to which I am entirely oblivious, it would seem. Need to spend a bit of time absorbing the goodness in this one, I think. Looks bloody lovely at a first glance, though.


Incidentally, I hate to be such a tiresome button counter all the time, but you have got the uniform hopelessly wrong.



East German away strip, black shorts and off-white tin hat with the letters M.O. painted on the front is the correct uniform. The shield, however is perfectly done. 

[former user]

I hate to be such a tiresome button counter all the time, but you have got the uniform hopelessly wrong.

please feel free to count my buttons
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=56501.75

You might have missed the whole (Army Painter) challenge, a lot of colonial and WW1 themes
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=55393.120

[Dr Mathias]

Incidentally, I hate to be such a tiresome button counter all the time, but you have got the uniform hopelessly wrong.

I was >this close< to modeling the trumpet

[syrinx0]

I am impressed you actually have the shield and spears. Not surprised mind you but impressed.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

wow, Matt, that's an amazing conversion, just love it! That really made my day

[Dr Mathias]

It's a good thing that the British in Africa weren't relying on these troops, because they're arriving laaaate.

These Sikhs were kind of tedious to start but I really started liking them toward the end. Copplestone as usual has the most characterful faces, and boy, can he sculpt a surly looking soldier. I wish there was more contrast in the faces and tunics, now that they're photographed. They're pretty rough. Oh well, they're done

The full ten man unit and accompanying leaders, traipsing through the tall grass of Nyasaland:



Smaller groups:





Leaders. One is from the Foundry Northwest Frontier range. Slightly smaller but he's equipped the same as the Darkest Africa pack.



Next up is a mountain gun and crew I ordered after the project start. The pack was missing a small elevation plate that Foundry should have mailed to me. Hopefully it will be arriving soon. I also hope to convert some Foundry bearers to carry the dismantled components. I originally planned on a machine gun team (pictured in the box in the first post) but it's actually Shutztruppe askari and I'm not going to go through the work to switch them to Brits. If I can manage to paint up the tribal goods I pretty much accomplished the minimum of what I intended to

wow, Matt, that's an amazing conversion, just love it! That really made my day

Thank you sir, as you likely know I have all the LAF personalities... I need to paint up the Prof. next

[OSHIROmodels]

Love the Sikhs 

I got the same figures myself recently and this is great inspiration

cheers

James

[Mason]

Stunning work, as usual, Doc!
 

Superb brushwork on some lovely sculpts.
Proper eye-candy.
 


You have no doubt posted the how-to somewhere before, but just what did you use to make that 'long grass'?
It is bloody brilliant.
 

[syrinx0]

Definitely worth the wait.  Another great looking unit for your forces!

[Totleben]

Just a deep felt wow from me, too. 

[Dr Mathias]

Thanks for the compliments all, I'm looking forward to seeing the entire force grouped up.

You have no doubt posted the how-to somewhere before, but just what did you use to make that 'long grass'?
It is bloody brilliant.

The grass in the Sikh pics is an early attempt. I made it quite a while ago, as I recall I was attempting to do something like the Prof's excellent grass. I used some plastic plants for the outer leaves and a tuft of plastic broom bristle glued into the center. I've done long grass a couple different ways and honestly haven't ever achieved something I'm thrilled about. If I ever make 'what I'm looking for' I'll do a tutorial 

[FramFramson]

Really, really nice work on those Sikhs! 

[Mason]

The grass in the Sikh pics is an early attempt. I made it quite a while ago, as I recall I was attempting to do something like the Prof's excellent grass. I used some plastic plants for the outer leaves and a tuft of plastic broom bristle glued into the center. I've done long grass a couple different ways and honestly haven't ever achieved something I'm thrilled about. If I ever make 'what I'm looking for' I'll do a tutorial 

Well, it looks damn good to me, I really like it.

I do agree that the Prof's grass is a very fine specimen too.