Showing posts with label Moors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moors. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

AHPC VII 1st entry 2 x Mounted Moors


As some of you may be aware its Painting challenge time and this is my first entry into the
These 2 were undercoated during the last Challenge, and along with loads more
never got painted. Most were sent off to Fran, who painted them up for my Broadside game 
I kept a handful of figures both mounted and dismounted back to use these as Leader or 
Character figures. These two never made it, so I thought I'd get these finished first!



The chap on the left is an Essex miniature, while I think the other is a Gripping Beast,
but I could well be wrong???


Saturday, 9 July 2016

Donnybrook - Moroccan Musketmen 1664



I started painting these handsome looking fellows back in March during the Challenge, but 
didn't get around to finishing them in time to enter them. They were finished off
 early last month and featured as the only musket armed unit in the Moroccan army
 in my game at Broadside, "Teviot's Last Stand"
Trying to find any info about the Moroccan army in 1664 has proved........difficult to say the least!
So studying paintings of Moroccan and Moorish scenes, it seems they wore very similar clothing for hundreds of years. There are no Moroccan figures made in 25mm for the period, so i'm afraid these are pure guess work???
The figures are in fact Moroccans and Tuareg's from Artizan's March or Die
French Foreign Legion range.
I think they fit in quite well, from a limited knowledge point of view.
The only real problem with the figures, were the guns they all carry, as they're from 
roughly 200 years in the future, but a little filing and swearing soon
had them a little more musket like.....well for me anyway???



Monday, 4 July 2016

Donnybrook - 25mm Moorish Horse


These 23 Moor Horse were in my "To Paint" pile, so as I was running out of time to get 
them painted up for our recent game Teviot's Last Stand, at Broadside.
I sent them over the Irish Sea to Reject Fran, who painted them up very quickly, and got them back to me well in time to get them based up for the game.

 
The figures are a mix of Gripping Beast, Artizan, Essex, Perry and Footsore.
They seem to mix well?


And of course, they can also be used for my El Cid games???


Cheers Fran!



Saturday, 26 September 2015

You'll never guess what I've been doing?


Yep, for the first time in months the brush has made an appearance!!


Starring
Pack TA01 from Unfeasibly minis
They are actually Tuaregs
but they're posing as Moors for Tangiers.


Co-Starring 6 Foundry minis
as
a French/Jacobite/Spanish/.Dutch unit
also for Donnybrook!

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

25mm Nubian Spearmen, Spanish Reconquista


Today's post is once again one of my long hidden gems, dusted and photographed just to appear here for your viewing pleasure!! he he!
This unit of Nubian Spearmen was painted many moons ago and like the Black Guard in my previous post, have only made one miserable appearance on a wargaming table, which is such a shame, because in my opinion they look quite good, but I'm biased of course, as I painted most of them. Around ten of these figures were part of my bring and buy bargin at a Birmingham wargame show around 12 years ago. The figures are all from the excellent Gripping beast range. They are based on a picture in the Osprey book,  "The Armies of Islam 7th-10th century Men-at-arms No125. These and others make up my Moor army to oppose the infamous Charltono Hestona  El Cid.
Hope you like them!!!

Ray