More Afghans

As the painting mojo continues to struggle to return, I finally completed a few more Afghans. They were the last 12 figures from a box of the plastic warriors from Perry miniatures.

The flag is from the ones supplied in the boxed set. Not my best work by any means, just glad to get something completed. I kept to a limited palette to try and speed up the painting time, but they still took over 2 weeks.

Some Afghans

Progress continues to be slow. Not helped by picking up a cold bug. It has taken me over a week to get these 8 figures done.

They are 8 Afghan irregulars from Artizan miniatures armed with rifles. The idea being to mix them in among my existing musket and jezzail armed figures. That way I can use them for Back of Beyond gaming. Ive now got another 12 plastic figures from Perry's to start.

Afghan Warriors

Following my last post, these are the additional Afghan Tribal warriors I needed to complete a unit. They are all plastic figures from Perry miniatures,  kindly donated by Dave.

They mix quite well with metal figures I had already refurbished. Here they are all together, ready to do battle tomorrow night.

I'll combine these with the 12 riflemen Dave provided already painted. There are enough figures left to put together another unit of rifle arm irregulars.

Refurbished figures

As I've arranged a large multi player game for Thursday, I realised we do not have enough Mahdists for the game, so a few proxies are required. Neil has 4 units of Zulus, Andy another which helps. I have 1 unit of Afghan tribesman, Thom has agreed to paint up another unit while I do the same. Luckily I had these figures left over from my last Colonial project from many years ago. They needed basing and some of the paintwork touched up.

They are all from Foundry miniatures Afghan or Darkest Africa range. Some not for the purists, but they fit and just leaves me 7 figures to complete.

Hopefully we can split the natives into 3 forces 

Zulus, 5 units of Tribal warriors

Madists, 5 units of Tribal warriors and 1 unit of Irregulars

Afghans, 1 unit of Tribal warrios and 2 units of Irregulars.

I also took the opportunity to complete 2 more bases of scrub  adding a few rocks  borrowed from the garden.

So best get back to painting the last of the figures I need.