I had hoped to get these finished last week but illness (yet again) knocked me out for a couple of days and I fell behind schedule. I was able to crack on with them over the weekend and I’m really happy with the finished figures having had a little more time to work on them.
The Berbers rode a breed of North African horses called Barb, which was typically smaller than those found in European armies. The predominant colour of this breed is Bay or Dark Bay but they also include some Black and Grey’s so I included a few of those as well.
I have painted two groups of Berber Cavalry, mostly sword-wielding warriors but one unit is armed with old muskets and obsolete (for the time period) rifles. Half are in the blue of the Tureges while the other half are in white robes. Each unit is ten strong and I have done four mounted leaders to accompany them. To make these stand out a bit more I have given the leaders more decorative bases. with some white desert flowers as well as the usual rocks and thornbushes.
For these models, I mixed and matched techniques a bit, using a combination of contrast paints on some areas, block painting and shading in other areas and different coloured washes for different parts of the model. I’m really happy with the overall effect, especially as I haven’t painted 15mm cavalry in any significant number for many many years (I’m usually doing 6mm horses, which are much easier!).
Points Scoring:
44x15mm Cavalry = 176 Points
From DaveD
Wow - they really look the part Lee - mind i think you need to make the dust clouds that go behind them as per your WW2 North Africa stuff . I always find Old Glory stuff paints up so well - and these are no exception. The variety of horse colour has really worked and the mass effect is great - im going to round these up to 180!