Beduin light cavalry

 More light cavalry for my Saracen force...

This time its a Beduin unit. I went with a little lighter tones then the Sudanes and added more red. The theme was white, red and light blue.

The miniatures are a mixture of Old Glory metal miniatures with new spears ( I hate bendy metal spears that always bends or snap...), the new spears and the miniatures the unit is mixed with is Gripping Beast plastic light cavalry.
The horses didnt match that good but I hope it will not be to apparent on the table top later on. The sizes of the horses are really notable unfortunately but the rider not so much.
The Old Glory miniatures are really funny and full of character, they are noted as 25mm on their American site and it is unfortunately. Had they been a little larger I would have bought lots more of them. 

Sudanese light cavalry

Here we have another Sudanese unit. You can never have enough light cavalry...

I really like the blue-brown tones that I went for with the Sudanese forces and this unit is no exception.


The miniatures are from Gripping Beast with new shields and some work on their heads. Those little things makes the miniatures a lot different.

Crusade era Sudanese heavy cavalry

I wanted to have some heavier punch with my Sudanese forces so I have finished this unit of heavy cavalry with spears.
I kept the previous colour tones of lots of brown and blue but with some fancier clothes and a little more colours and details, that and armour...

The miniatures are mostly Gripping Beast plastics but with one metal miniatures tossed in as the standard bearer, some new heads and new shields
I wanted to have a little fancier unit that still looked to match my previously painted light infantry.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2020/12/crusade-era-sudanes-light-infantry.html 

Crusade era Sudanese light infantry

 I wanted some light infantry for my Sudanese force.


The miniatures are a conversion with Victrix Carthaginian Citizen infantry as a base https://www.victrixlimited.com/collections/carthaginians/products/carthaginian-citizen-infantry

With new shields from Gripping Beast:
https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/SC20_Desert_Frontier_Shields_lozenge_12--product--4180.html

https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/SC65_Desert_Frontier_Shields_Rectangle_12--product--4224.html

The heads are a mixture of original Victrix ones with extra greenstuff and heads designed by Puppetwars
https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-54/all-bits/heads/desert-troopers-heads.html

And some extra greenstuff overall to add some extra details and make the unit more in line of the imagery Im after.


Im really really happy how these turned out. Both the conversions and the muted colours. It have given me a light infantry unit that is really striking and unique.

I painted 16 of them for a unit in Hail Ceasar or removing them for a unit of 12 for Lion Rampant.

The project started long ago as a plan to make Berber infantry but they are instead reused as Sudanese
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/search/label/Wip?updated-max=2017-03-26T13:37:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&start=21&by-date=false

But I want something with a little armour for the Berber project so that will have to wait a little longer.

Ayyubid Mamluks

 Finally... Some historical on this page.

I finished a unit of Mamluk heavy cavalry with bows and spears for my Ayyubid Egyptians.
Some friends have started talking about and showing interest for the Crusades again so it was perfect that I just had brought forward a unit of Mamluks on my painting table.
And now they are finished.

On these I wanted to try out to give them a brown tint, a more muted colour tone but still have a colourful unit. I testet to apply a brownish oilwash on these for just that reason.

In hindsight I see that I should have made a little more effort on the skin, a highlight and some more red into it would have made a difference. But this is just one small unit in a larger army so it will have to do.