15mm Minifigs French Foreign Legion: Bedouin & Tuareg Cavalry

These were completed a couple years ago. Best flag I ever did on these, one of the worst is on the Tuareg cavalry unit below.

I didn't quite have enough to do a whole unit but there ya go.

These too were finished just a few years ago. Mixed in are figures from the Minifigs Crusades range which serve perfectly well.

I believe I was trying to write out Allah on this flag but I am more certain than ever that my flag references betrayed me.

Next up and a final update for FFL for awhile will be the mounted half of the Legion Mule company. Stay tuned ...

15mm French Foreign Legion: Bedouin & Tuaregs

I painted these Minifigs Bedouins I think on a plane when I was around 12. Oh yeah, I had, paints, an Xacto knife and superglue. This had to have been around 1982-83? It's one of the very first units I ever painted using washes almost exclusively. Zoom in at your peril.

Minifigs Bedouins

Minifigs Bedouins: My first arabs were painted so bad I deliberately did a simple job on these many years later so there'd be some continuity of some kind. That's true of most of this stuff.

Minifigs Tuaregs with Swords

Minifigs Crusader range if I recall correctly. Tuareg riflemen in back.

Up front here are Minifigs Crusades range mixed with Essex and Minifigs Tuareg command. Painted the same they blend in fairly well.

These Stone Mountain Tuaregs are painted with probably the most sophistication of all these and were completed maybe 6-7 years ago. One of the last units I added to this range.

Almost all Minifigs except for Essex mixed in the full unit to the right.

Overview detail

Terribly lit overview of the 10 infantry units. There was no Internet when over half the flags were painted so I guessed, guessed terribly wrong too but I won't repaint them.

Wood bases on a magnetic tray

Despite all precautions, my back was turned when the moving apes tilted this fully laden cabinet on its side to take it up the stairs. Every shelf is lined with magnetic sheeting and is mostly filled with steel based miniatures, primarily 15mm. I didn't have the heart to open this thing up for months, unwilling to face the destruction inside. When I finally screwed up the courage I was massively pleased; all the steel based miniatures held fast and there was no damage that I could tell to what amounted to a lifetimes worth of work. There was one exception:

Opening the top drawer of this miniatures chiffonier revealed the disaster seen here. This is not a recreation!

What better time to re-base these Arabs for FFL games? I got tired of moving all the individual figures and ensuring their spacing was mob like. So, figures who were rifle armed were based no more than 2 per base and melee weapon armed figures were based up to 4 per base, leaving command figures individually based and enough other quantities to deal with casualty removal.