The Colonial Painting Expedition - 100 Miniatures

[Steam Flunky]

No. 41 - Egyptian Officer


eygyt (3) von torq42 auf Flickr

I decided this expedition needs more egyptians!

[Admiral Benbow]

Lovely, great miniature and beautiful painting, Rob!

(but that plastic base ...)

[Jeff965]

I really like this, the face especially.

[rumacara]

I like all the miniatures except mine.
Damn, i have to paint another (better this time).
Nice work in all of you.
A real inspiration and a great expedition will be.

Cheers

Rui

[Plynkes]

Damn, i have to paint another (better this time).

That's the spirit! We don't give up when faced with discouragement and hardship, we keep going. We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Per ardua ad astra!





(Too much? Was that one platitude too many? Don't look at me, I've never led an expedition before.)

[Captain Blood]

Fabulous, Steam Flunky.
The Sikh is very well done too.

(but those plastic bases... )






No. 42 - Private Frederick Hitch VC, 2/24th Foot, January 22nd-23rd 1879


Empress Miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks.

An excellent likeness of Hitch portrayed by the actor David Kernan (sadly not much like photographs of the real Frederick Hitch )

[Steam Flunky]

Some lovely figures on this expedition.
Great brushwork Captain Blood, Admiral Benbow and all.
Very impessed by Quartermain, Plynkes!

[Elk101]

Wow 

There is a frighteningly high standard in this painting club. Maybe I'll sit this one out!

[Alchemy]

Continuing in East Africa… 43 - Askari MG team

[Plynkes]

There is a frighteningly high standard in this painting club. Maybe I'll sit this one out!

We'll have none of that kind of talk here.

You won't get anywhere sitting on the sidelines among the wheezy boys with a note from matron. Doubt any of us are coming back, but a brave last stand and a hero's grave and is better than dying in a sweat in a tent while your piss turns black back at base camp, surely? Get out there and die like a man.

[argsilverson]

No. 41 - Egyptian Officer


eygyt (3) von torq42 auf Flickr

I decided this expedition needs more egyptians!

I was expecting to see HIM!


Gentlemen, all produced nice job so far!

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Fabulous, Steam Flunky.
The Sikh is very well done too.

(but those plastic bases... )






No. 42 - Private Frederick Hitch VC, 2/24th Foot, January 22nd-23rd 1879


Empress Miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks.

An excellent likeness of Hitch portrayed by the actor David Kernan (sadly not much like photographs of the real Frederick Hitch )

"Hitch? Hitch, I saw you, - you're alive."

 "I am? Oh, thanks very much."

"Answer the roll. Say sir."

"Sir!"

"Alright. Now get off into the sickbay where you belong."

Very nice work.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

You won't get anywhere sitting on the sidelines among the wheezy boys with a note from matron. Doubt any of us are coming back, but a brave last stand and a hero's grave and is better than dying in a sweat in a tent while your piss turns black back at base camp, surely? Get out there and die like a man!

"Oh, but Sir, Matey said I had a dose of Yellow Streak and I could sit this one out? I've forgotten my gym kit too!"

[Plynkes]

I've forgotten my gym kit too!"

Then you must face the 500 mile trek, the jigger flea, the hungry cannibals, the malaria, the angry pymies, the marauding Masai, the Mountains of the Moon, the Arab slavers, the Four Fountains of Herodotus and the blackwater fever...


...in your vest and pants.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Then you must face the 500 mile trek, the jigger flea, the hungry cannibals, the malaria, the angry pymies, the marauding Masai, the Mountains of the Moon, the Arab slavers, the Four Fountains of Herodotus and the blackwater fever...


...in your vest and pants.

"Sir, sir, I've forgotten my pants too, Matey's lent me an old pair of her bloomers. I can face it all with a stiff upper lip (the 500 mile trek, the jigger flea, the hungry cannibals, the malaria, the angry pygmies, the marauding Masai, the Mountains of the Moon, the Four Fountains of Herodotus and the blackwater fever) and still show a straight bat to the wicket, but I can't face the Arab slavers in Matey's old bloomers! Could I fag for you instead Sir, please sir?"