My Saracen force, at the moment

I just love army photos, to see all the miniatures together they usually looks even more impressive then single. 
And thats why I thought it was time to take some pictures of my collection at the moment. What I have painted so forth.
In these pictures are also miniatures from my Tribal Africa collection that has been recruited to act as skirmishers to my Saracens.

Starting with from the left side I got a small unit of archers and some light infantry, I got two small unit of African skirmishers.
The Commander of this small force is accompanied by a drummer and two bodyguards (two spare infantry miniatures).
Then I got two other unit of African skirmishers lead by a commander from the same tribe.
Under them is a small unit of medium infantry and a small unit of Turcomen horse archers.

A small but growing force.

With these pictures I would just like to say that If you like them please take pictures of your collections and upload for us all to see. I love these kind of armypictures.

Turcoman horsearchers

Latest unit to my growing crusader era muslim army are a small unit of Turcoman horse archers.
The miniatures are from Gripping Beast.

I painted them in a more brown or duller colour tones then the more Arabic/Egyptian Saracens I painted previously to show that these are from a Turkic tribe and not Arabs.

Overall I like the sculpts but some of them seems to have the same problem as some of the other older sculpts from Gripping beast with to short arms and the miniatures are really a bit to chunky for my taste. But I like them none the less.

It feels good to have started to bring some cavalry to my Saracens.

Movement trays for my Tribal Africa project.

I finished the last things with the flocking on eleven new movement trays for my Tribal Africa project.
Soon moving tribesmen all over the table top will be no trouble at all.

These are of my own design and custom made for me by Tiny Terrain http://tinyterrain.com/.
There are 9 holes in the movement tray for eight 25mm bases and a spare one for holding a casualties dice in games like Hail Caesar or such.

The miniatures on the trays here are Kushites from Warlord Games http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/achaemenid-persians
And better pictures of them can be found earlier in this project, just look at Tribal Africa as the label.

Ruins for my Saracens

I found these at a sale and thought they would fit in nicely to my Saracens.
They are actually GW Lord of the rings terrain but I think they work.

Its just a small step to improve the dessert terrain for my gaming club and I hope to make more like these.
I used a zenith light technique (black primer and then a quick white primer at about 45degreeds angle) and then added some sand colours deluted with water and added some sand on top of the actual model. A very quick and effective technique.

You might wondering about the strange bases, well its so I can fit them all together to form a sort of larger ruin area terrain.







And with some miniature from my collection it can look like this

Saracen infantry

My Saracens have recruited some new infantry.
A Commanding officer and a drummer is there to guide them.

I just love the colours... Maybe a little over the top but I really want them to look like a sort of Easter egg collection...
The rank and file are from Musketeer Miniature and the officer and the drummer from Gripping beast, as well as two of the spearmen.
About the colours, these are all a sort of test run for my cavalry that I intend to have lots of colours and I wanted to try it out on something before the intended miniatures. I also experimented with some details on the clothes. The plan was to have duller colour on the infantry but I think I can easily hide these a miniature or two in larger "more boring" infantry formations later on.

Some closer picture of the officer, I wanted really bright colours on him and experimented a little with the extra details on the red.

These two are actually plastic miniatures from Gripping beast Dark age warrior box. I changed the shields and added a turban in greenstuff to their heads. I still need lots of more practise on this but I think it shows some potentials.

 

Hmm I think I will have to practise some more to get even more details onto my miniatures...
http://www.firstlegionltd.com/con01-psaladin-sultanofthesaracens.aspx
Imagine a 28mm miniature with those details...

Wing Commander: Kilrathi fighters

This takes me back...
I just painted some Kilrathi fighter from the OLD computer games of the Wing Commander series.

It was when I saw the miniatures painted by Aegis Neugenbaur that I knew I had to get some miniatures.
http://www.agisn.de/html/wing_commander.html

The miniatures them self were ordered from Shapeways and have been.. ehm.. resting... since when I ordered them. But I wanted a little something for fun to paint and there they were.

I dont have any rules to use them yet but think maybe I could toss something together when I have painted some humans to oppose these.
Im thinking a sort of beer and pretzel game where the skill of the pilot should matter more then the spaceship he or her are in.

And a little something for scale. The miniature are a 28mm miniature.
- Pull.