15mm Old Glory Arabs Commission - Hafsids for Adrian

In return for replumbing my house, I was asked to paint a Hafsid army for Adrian.

Hafsids? Who are Hafsids? They are an African Califate in modern Lybia and Tunisia. Adrian has picked a doozy here!

Figures from Old Glory/Timecast, transfers from Little Big Man Studios.

First seven units are all short spear, shieldwall and integral shooters.
First unit

Second unit

Side view

Rear view

Third unit

Fourth and fifth units

Sixth, seventh and spare unit

So many figures they will not all fit in my lightbox! (216 of them infact).

Not bad for two weeks work.

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Hausa Project - converted War and Empire Arabs

So, a new project begins, is nearly finished!
Hausa Kingdoms.

So, who is this lady?
She is Queen Amina, an almost legendary queen of the Hausa kingdom of Zaria. Reading about her, she deserves her fearsome reputation, and is the ideal CinC for my army.

With her bodyguard of Khurasan heavy cavalry to act as guard cavalry recreating the scene above.

The shields were an inspired moment of 'hey that looks good'!

These have come our really well.

With her bodyguard.

However, there is no actualy figure that suited my requirement, so I needed a female warrior that I could convert.
After a long search, I found some female Skythians from Xyston Miniatures ia Scotia Grendel. (The rest of the pack I gave to Paul).

Quite different from what I needed.

Rear view

Front view of the proposed changes.

Rear view.

Modifications in place. Thanks to Phil Lewis for the Greenstuff.

And a few extras to go with,

Second in command, Muhammed Rumfa. Beautiful figure from Khurasan. Flanked by War a…

6mm Spearhead WW2 British for Andi

Andi is an old, old friend, back from the days of DBM, so 1990s!

He asked me to paint his airborne division for him, thankfully one brigade had already been done, but there are still plenty to do, and an armoured division, and an infantry division too.

2nd Para done.

HQ

3rd Para

Top view

Recon

HQ

Support weapons

Stand close up

Divisional Recon

Divisional HQ

Divisional HQ Recon (Beige berets as these are meant to be SAS)

Glider Pilot Regiment

Top view

Their HQ

Armed and dangerous glider pilots

Tetrach Mk VII light tanks (airmobile but awful) I insisted Andi has these for D-Day, after which they get replaced with Stuarts!

The paras and HQ in their box

Glider regfiments and their gliders.

That finsihes the paratroopers, just need to do the airmobile briage now.
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Mortal Gods

Footsore recently released this rather fun game, based around 28mm skirmish fighting in ancient Greece. Tried it at Campaign, then got a set for my birthday from Manny and Rob at Boards and Swords.

Picked up these two from Annie at Bad Squiddo games, Thea an Amazon hero, and her fairy friend scouting on guinea pig, because, well why not!

Turns out Ray also has Mortal Gods! He asked me to paint his stuff, who was I to deny him?
Slingers, Peltasts and light hopilites done, which finished Ray's Mortal Gods bits (just in time for Keith's order to arrive)

Light hoplites (shield transfers by Little Big Man & Victrix)

Slingers

Peltasts

A musician, called Jeff

A spare base...

Ray's Heavy Hoplites and heroes from the core set, plus a Medium Promachos because I like the figure, I bought it twice and this one is now Ray's.

The heavies, 4 bases of.

With their veteran at the fore.

As the core set is meant to b etwo faction, here are two sets of commanders, including the Polymachos.

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