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Death to the colonial oppressors!
Another colonial Sudan entry for the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. This is a group of Madhist cavalry led by an armoured emir and his standard bearer. The figures are all from the Perry Brothers' amazing Colonial Sudan collection.
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Armoured emir, with cloth barding
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Another view of the barding and the chain mail
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Cool armour - not sure it stops a round from a Martini-Henry...
The emir and the standard bearer are riding horses clad in a cloth barding that is quite unique - you can still see contemporary examples of it online from festivals/celebrations in various parts of Africa today. I tried to copy the example from the Perry Brothers' product listing on their site (the paint job on that site is obviously much, much nicer).
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Standard bearer riding high - banner allegedly says something about serving god, but it may say "up with Queen Victoria's skirt!" for all I know...
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Baggara tribesmen
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Rider with a "liberated" Remington rifle
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The other riders are armed with a mix of spears and Remington breech-loader rifles, likely captured from one of the multiple Egyptian expeditions crushed by the Madhi's troops as his rebellion took hold of the Sudan.
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I experimented with a new macro lense for a couple of these pictures
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I almost went cross-eyed painting the cloth barding on the emir and the standard bearer, but I was pleased with the result. The Madhists will now have a nice, scary looking leadership focal point the next time we get the Sudan figs out on the table!
"More Colonial Sudan - Madhist Armoured Emir and Cavalry"
4 Comments -
Wow! Nice paint! I'm lucky I can paint square patches on Sudanese guys!
February 5, 2013 at 11:09 PM
Very, very, very, very nice looking !
February 5, 2013 at 11:20 PM
Great colours Greg!
February 5, 2013 at 11:56 PM
Amazing job on these!
February 6, 2013 at 2:39 AM