Khandibarian Camels

I really don´t like painting camels but it has to be done. :-D
This lot are  from the  Hat Taaishi Camelry and the Hat  Hadendowah Camelry. 

Hadendowah´s

Taaishi´s

A trick. The bods aren´t that stable when glued on so I cut the end off a pin, about 1cm long and using a pair of pliers, pushed the blunt end into the saddle. The plastic is quite soft so it doesn´t take much effort.

A couple more conversions. from the esci Muslims set. The bod on the left will be usefull for shooting down from a building or from a rocky hillside

Hello to Duane. I´ve read on Paul´s blog,  Caliban-somewhen, that he´s asked wether you have a blog..if so do tell :-D

Burgundian Heavy Cavalry

Only the Scurriers and some levy to get painted /converted and the army will be ready.
Nags and Bods from Miniarts Burgundian mounted Knights,   Zvezda. Italeri and  Revell.
Lances scratch made, flags etc from Dansk Figursspilsforening

Khandibarian Cavalry

There´s no Arab cavalry sets!!!!! OK, the airfix Arabs(Bedouins) set but you only get 3 riders and the nags need fixing to thier stands! So..a bit of converting is called for.
The Airfix bods are unchanged. The rest are from the Hat Numidian cavalry set with head swops from Caeser Arabs and Escis Muslims.  The bugler got a head and arm swop...

Flag from Warflag

Nags from different sets including Italeri, Zvezda and Hat

And a couple of infantry conversions using bods from the Esci muslim warriors set.

Body  swops

Head swop and a body swop

Hello to Kris..Aka Heisler...from Wargames and Railroads Blog. Not only does he do wargaming and scale railroads and his Fantasy minis are great

Eastern house

A quick "how I make Khandibarian buildings".

Things needed. Woodglue, sharpsand, biro, sharp knife, setsquare, pins, paintbrush, insulating foam, brown and white acylic wall paint. I´ve decanted the paint into old washing up liquid bottles..much easier to squeete small amounts out. The push down caps cut out the unscrewing of caps or levering lids off.

Cut a square of polystyrene sheet. Cut strips of the insulating sheet and simply glue onto the square. The pins help to hold everything in place as it dries. The gold dome is an old plastic X-mas tree bauble cut in half,  I just added glue along the inside rim and put it in place. If you add a dome, remember to cut a hole underneath on the roof to let air in otherwise the glue takes ages to dry

Using a biro, draw windows, doors, brickwork onto the walls. Mix some sand and wood glue and using a spatula (lolly sticks are good for this) smear the mix over the walls.  It´s best to do only two opposing sides each time because if the mix is a bit runny or too thick and you stand the building up on it´s base the mixture will sag and run.

Mix some brown and white paint. Roughly  33% - 66% brown to white and paint :-D

Then another layer but with much less brown and finally a dry brush with just white......Cheap and cheerfull...and Finished. :-D     Just a mo!!!...those Khandiabarians have got hold of RPG´s and AK´s!!!!!!!

Khandibarian Cannon and Foot Command

It seems pretty unfair that the Colonial army should have cannons and the Khandibarians not.
The crew are from The Caeser Arab Camel Riders and Bedouin set  the gun from the Revell Imperial Artillery set. 

Shiek  Yerbouti 

Hello to hipster,brah from Here is Blog . Nice articles on the care of "lawns" ;-D
Hello to Thomas from An Average Wargamers Blog..Wargames and minis in 1/72nd.
Bonjour to Hamster from Le dojo d´Hamstersamourai. blog . Vikings!!!!! The nude captive girl is..nice :-D 


Ps..I´m slowly moving blogs from the followlist to the blogroll thingy..if anyone spots that they are not on it...Complain bitterly to the management :-D

Bowled Out!!!

My entry for a duel here at the Bennos Forum..The theme was "guarding a Wall"
I won this one but more for the humour than the actual painting . My opponent´s bods (Jan´s), are much better than mine.

Town In Khandibah

The start of a town in Khandibah. This one is called KhitKhat..I´ll add a couple more buildings, and get a few more Khandibarians finished and  then as Goldmember says in the Austin powers film "ze shooting can schtart!!! " :-D

Some Khandibarian sharpshooters

The Colonial army so far.

Hello to Clarke from Minismith´s Forge blog and (among others he runs) Minismiths Minis for E-bay.  Great painted  fantasy minis.His female Ghost banshee is lovely
Hello to Jason from Light bobs and paint blobs Blog.   His hail caeser game with the roman and gallic armies is very inspirational. His mate Ian thought so as well :-D

Burgundian Mounted archers

This lot took a bit of snipping and hacking to get together. It was difficult to find archers that fitted with the look of 15th century ones.
The top halves of the archers are from Minart, Zvezda and Redbox, the bottoms from Zvezda
Nags, Zvezda and Italeri.

Hello to Sanguemarcio....this time I can say he´s from Minaiture Warfare Blog . He´s only just started blogging (with some lovely 1/72nd medieval posts....good man :-D) but he´s been collecting for years.

Congratulations and 10 points to Paul  from Plastic warriors blog for guessing the sound track from my mini-film...it was Black hawk down and the only bit of the film without incidental musik behind the gunfire.
Hugh from Maverick collecting came a close second with his suggestion of the 9th company . Hugh´s got a few great blogs..one called Small scale world is an excellent resource for everything plastic figure related.

Roman Tavern (Linear-b)

Another part of the Roman civilian life range from  Linear-b These are the masters but they already look pretty good to me. I´ll have to get to work on my new Roman town before they are released!!!

 

 

 

This guy is attending to a call of nature. Urine was a usefull bi-product in anceint times, used for dyeing

 

There are a few more ancient/medieval sets planned this year like; Spartacus Uprising 2,  Roman Port,  Spartacus Army,  Roman Republican Legion on the March, Roman Republican Legion in Battle,  Roman Republican Legion Before Battle, Crusader Transport 1 and Crusader Transport 2.

Hello to Flags of War Blog Georgeous flags from all periods, and now in 20mm as well!!
Hello to Sanguemarcio...avatar but no link ??

Multi purpose Medieval Horse team

What to do with the spare nags from the Miniart Hussites set?? Make a horse team for pulling all those bits of heavy equipment. :-D

Wether there were such Horse teams back then I don´t know but they look ok so that´s fine by me :-D

Thier first job..pulling the heavy german warwagon. Poor things!

Hello to Anibal Invictus (Benito)  from Gaming with TooFatLardies blog. Loads of wargaming from the madrid based TooFatlardies wargames club.
Hello to Jakub Bazela from google +
Hello to TasminP from Wargaming Girl Blog. She´s just kicked off with blogging and says (in her own words)
A mythical beast - a female wargamer!  The "does my bum look big in this?" post is great :-D

Burgundian Mounted Command

Happy new year :-D
Seeing as my career as a film director has been blocked by varíous technicalities..it´s back to the "imobile" form of bodery :-D

Although there is a perfectly good bugler in the Zvezda french Knights set,  I´ve used him before and fancied a bit of a change, so I used the one  from the Italeri Medieval Tournament set.

The Flag is from Dansk Figursspilsforening.  and is a generic cavalry flag depicting St Thomas

Tank "Brewing up"

A bit of "end of the year fun" :-D (just press play)

10 points to anyone who can guess which film the soundtrack comes from