The Colonial Painting Expedition - 100 Miniatures

[Plynkes]

Looks like Dog the Bounty Hunter to me.  


The Michael Douglas character in The Ghost and the Darkness was called "Remington" which is another gun-alike name. It looks quite a bit like him, so I reckon I might be on to something there. They seem to have merely switched in another similar name for him, which is quite common with "not-" figures. I believe a Martini-Enfield Rifle (among other things) was actually used in the real hunt for the Tsavo man-eaters.


Interestingly, I first read about the Tsavo lions in a "Boy's Own True Adventures" style book when I was a little kid. The two clean-limbed, immaculately-moustached and brillcreamed British chaps in the illustrations couldn't have looked more different to the dirty hobo that was Douglas in that movie. The Val Kilmer character is historical, but the Michael Douglas Quatermain-wannabe was made up for the film (which would necessitate doing a "not-" figure, I guess).


Lovely job, by the way. But that really doesn't need saying.  

[Mason]

That fella is certainly full of character, Richard.
Former Reb, I could buy that.
 

Great colour choices too.
Not something I would have considered.
 



Some great addition to the expedition fellas.
Love the Ostrich, Argonor, that did make me chuckle.
Now someone just has to paint a not-Rod Hull and attach him to it.
 

[Plynkes]

Here's the fellow. Decide for yourself...

[Captain Blood]

By Jove, I think you've solved the riddle, Plynkes - that's who it's supposed to be, for sure... Thanks 

That fella is certainly full of character, Richard.
Former Reb, I could buy that.
 

That's good, because in that case, I think I double him up for Old West use and muster him into my Upsheet Creek posse... 
Roughly contemporaneous, after all... 

[gamer Mac]

Cracking work Richard

[carlos13th]

No 28 British Officer

A young 2nd Lieutenant poses for a heroic picture before joining the expedition 

He looks just as smug as you would expect a young officer too, fantastic.

[Belisarius]

The memsahibs gawd bless ,em. Miss June Hunter - Dunn and her chaperone Miss Haversham ( spinster ) .                  Many a young Leiutenant has found the lines " June Hunter Dunn, June Hunter- Dunn, burnished and furnished by African sun "  turning in his mind as he gazed wistfully at the fair June.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

We sat in the cattle kraal till twenty to one
And now I’m engaged to Miss June Hunter Dunn.

Very nice work, as are all the other entries so far.

[former user]

No.24 Capitaine Bloss  Légion Etrangère



Artizan FFL

the sword is a conversion?
very well done with the blue and the red btw

[H.M.Stanley]

We sat in the cattle kraal till twenty to one
And now I’m engaged to Miss June Hunter Dunn.

Very nice work, as are all the other entries so far.

No sex please,  we're British ....

Very nice work all round

[fred]

the sword is a conversion?
very well done with the blue and the red btw

Thanks - I'm pleased with how the red came out, I used a GW wash applied just to the creases to get the deep shades in them. With the blue, I wasn't sure if I had gone light enough with the highlights.

Yes the sword is a conversion - the figure normally is part of my IHMN company, in which the officers are rather deadly with their swords, so it seemed best to actually have a sword to chop the enemy to bits with.

[former user]

brigade miniatures makes one of the few period swordsmen, a belgian officer
how did You do the blue?

[fred]

Vallejo Dark Prussian Blue, with a drop of black as the main colour. Highlighted with Dark Prussian Blue, then a few smaller highlights of DPB with a drop of white.

I was aiming for a very dark blue for the French officers - much darker than the capote's of the troopers.

[former user]

yes, that's how it should be, almost black

[Plynkes]

Just a friendly reminder that entries are supposed to consist of a single base (and don't think you can hide two bases behind a table and I won't notice ).

We'll look the other way this time, as it isn't really all that important and there will be a mutiny among the troops if the women are sent home. But the next person to do it will be put on jankers, and not just peeling spuds but mucking out the rhino too.