Africa - Beluchi ....

A selection of Foundry Beluchi ....

More Bearers and Native civilians for Africa

A couple of packs of Foundry items painted up to add to the stuff for Africa games...

Some more bearers

 And some more natives to for villages etc....

Some stands of bamboo...

I used up some 100 plastic bamboo pieces (1:200) scale to make up some stands of bamboo to add to my 'jungle' scenics

Some more things for Africa games ....

Some more things finished for Africa ...

A small hut made from a plastic hayrick and five armed adventurers...

 started work on the native warriors, some male archers

 and some female archers....

Another Moa...

Finally got round to working on another Moa ...; modifying a 54mm plastic ostrich which had been sitting on a shelf waiting for a while ....

 painted up and with his mate .....

a few items finished for games set in Africa ...

The small huts and storage unit shown here with a few civilians for a village

a selection of native warriors and porters...

 a couple of generic colonial police ...

With those finished, have enough for a small expedition..

Out for a hunt ...

Sir Rodney Fellowes, joined by a few of his chums are on a big game hunt, they have travelled up river and camped out at a old deserted trading post...

Early in the morning they set out,  Sir Rodney leading the way with a local guide...

 a lot of game around in the local area

 a water hole futher inland ....

 as the hunters move along, there are a couple of lions on the prowl

 Sir Rodney takes a long shot at a giraffe - dead on target - the giraffe goes down....

 Sir Rodney and a couple of others move forward cautiously, while rest move towards some large antelope...

 The other girafffes move away they approach; the other hunters took a few shots at the antelope but missed - the antelope ran off towards the water hole ....the lions are keeping an eye on proceedings ...

 a pair of rhinos lumbered into view, Sir Rodney fires and kills one but the other one charges towards him.....

 he stands his ground and fires again, jumping out of the way but falling badly. The rhino was hit and goes down dead; Sir Rodney has a cut and a nasty bruise on his left arm

 just as they decide to end their hunt for the day, the lions move in to attack them.

  They fire on the lions, Sir Rodney kills one, but sustains a bad strain to his right arm pushing away the dying lion;  another lion is badly wounded and slinks away; the third lion runs off...

 the rest of the hunting party escort Sir Rodney back towards the camp ....

A good days hunting for Sir Rodney - a giraffe, two rhinos and a lion; although wounded a bit of first aid sees him set right.

[a tryout of some home-baked hunting rules, based on some of the mechanisms from Tooth & Claw rules and some animal action tables found on the I'net]

Working on huts ....

Working on some more generic native huts... I bought 3 plastic haystacks at a local Toy&Train fair.  Doors were cut into them;  the two larger ones will be used as small huts and the other little one was put on a raised platform to represent some sort of storage  ....

A selection of newbies (2)...

More figs finished ...

Some more generic figs ..

BH&BC ready for a road trip ...

 The native warriors selections, working on bases at the moment ...

 I've a few more Maoris on order to bring the number up to ~25; also I've bought a couple of job lots of 28mm Foundry Africa figs off Ebay - I will enjoy sorting them out when they arrive

A selection of newbies ....

I've completed painting a number of figures ....

A colonial police officer and two civilians

a couple of oddment figures plus Indie, a German officer and a nice ark ...

 Armed tramp steamer crew ...

a few more on the painting table; plus waiting in the wings for the paintbrush - Maoris, Melanesians and some African warriors ....

Some more natives ...

A recent pickup off Ebay, some Scheltrum Miniatures - Dayaks ...

finished off to match as close as I could some which I bought already painted, and that have featured in quite a few games :)

(Really specificly for Borneo, but usable elsewhere)

A little time ashore ...

The expedition to the south seas is finally underway, Von Tiddenheim and a small group explore one of the first islands they come to.

Von Tiddenheim, his niece and valet marvel at the giant ziduli palm ...

 while a couple of scientists examine the strange rock formation nearby ...

[new scenic items, palm tree and rocks --> re-purposed PlayMobil bits]

Rescue Mission to Kalamazoo ....

continued from previous post....

The river born part of the rescue mission arrives at the trading post of Kalamazoo...

 after securing the trading post the naval landing party moves inland cautiously towards the natives' village ....

 the rest (volunteers and some colonial police) take a different route ....

the naval landing party took a wider trail towards the native village, as they neared the thicker jungle area they were attacked by natives ....

the landing party formed a defensive line .....

the natives took a lot of casualties and retreated, melting away into the jungle ....

the others make good progress and came into sight of the native village

they've were spotted and their approach was challenged ...

they were attacked from behind

and then from the front ...

the naval landing party moved quickly towards the sound of the gunfire ....

their firepower dispersed the natives who fell back to their village ....(only two men remained from the other party that approached the village)

they advance, keeping up a steady fire, the natives fall back and head towards an adjacent statue platform ...

The naval landing party search the village and find the two lady captives safe and sound....

the natives mill about by their statue platform ...

the french troops arrive to provide support ....

the expedition cautiously returned to the trading post at Kalamazoo - although followed by a few native warriors, there was no further fighting.  The expedition returned safely down river to the port town of Gwondamaloo.