Some stands of long grass...

 Slightly clumpy and loose the long grass I bought shed quite a bit, so I sprayed with varnish to hold it together. Its based on clear plastic to help it look like it comes straight out of the game table surface..

East Africa ... more for the Germans...

An additional field company joins the German forces....

Plus a machine gun...

East Africa - EAMR....

 The last of the planned additions for the WW1 British East Africa forces; a detachment of mounted infantry - East Africa Mounted Rifles (EAMR). [Redoubt Miniatures, with Gripping Beast heads]

East Africa - BSAP...

 Another addition for the WW1 East Africa forces; a detachment of British South Africa Police (BSAP) [Underfire Miniatures]

East Africa - a couple more additions..

German 'Seebattation' troops get a machine gun

BSAP Native Police for the British forces...

Foreign Legion - More Desert Raiders....

 Some more camel mounted opposition for the Foreign Legion...

combined with the '1st batch' ...

East Africa - Armoured Train....

Working on an armoured train to hold about 10+ figures...

Using some old OO/HO wagons, plus some scribed cardboard for the flooring

simple armoured exterior made using cardboard...

roof and supports assembled, plus a step for the doors...

start of an armoured loco body sleeve to fit over an OO/HO tank loco

all assembled and awaiting paint ....

all items painted with Tamiya Khaki, then put firing slits onto the armoured trucks with black ink pen and a simple stencil.

An old Hornby OO/HO 4-wheel coach, slight modified and painted to match added to the train.  All finished and ready for action.....

East Africa - British Forces additions...

 First up a railway wheeled jalopy for patrol and delivery of small amounts of supplies..

An Indian mountain battery...

Indian Sikh infantry....

FFL - Compagnie Saharienne

Locals in the pay of the French, camel mounted french officer in charge...

Tin-Tin style characters for Africa....

 My Tin-Tin style characters finished for adventures in Africa and other tropical climes..

Captain Pollock, Kit Campion, Ruffles plus Sterling & Stirling

Tin-Tin in East Africa....

 Tin-Tin in East Africa.. a nice die-cast 1/43 car

I'm going to make up a set of my equivalent Tin-Tin characters for use in Africa games - Kit Campion, Captain Pollock plus Sterling & Stirling.

East Africa - German Askari..

German askari unit painted up (mostly Tiger Miniatures)....

The mountain gun and some supporting Ruga-Ruga...

The commander of this little force Otto Von Tiddenheim....

I'm going to add a few more figures to bring it up to the strength of a German WW1 field company.

East Africa Force - extra jaloppies

I managed to pick up a couple of cheap diecast Matchbox Crossleys; these were painted up for use a transport and another for a machine gun. For crew I bought some Empress Miniatures crew sets; these I've tweaked slightly, along with a couple of spare seated figures I had.

The full East Africa Force motorised force....

One of the Empress crew sets is a dismounted Vickers gun; this will be used as a British machine gun section.