My Ethiopians and their enemies (28mm)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Like those!

[lowlylowlycook]

Thanks for all the encouragement guys.  You are the best!

Now, as for anti tank capability, I wonder if I could get one of these?



Sadly, it's the Imperial Guard in Korea, though with the hills it would well be in Ethiopia.  Then again, that's at least as fair as having to fight Tigers with my 1936-37 Ethiopians and Italians.  Considering the new Pendraken line,  it does make me wonder if they wouldn't be a nice 10mm project... 


Some non-descript Italians have been based.



And here is a basically fictitious unit of Ethiopians.  When I first started this project, I read about someone using ACW Zoauves for some native troops.  He meant askari but a little confusion on my part combined with the attraction of some cheap plastics led to what I'm calling the Harar Guard.  Harar being an ancient (as opposed to the upstart Addis) and Muslim city.  You can't exactly prove that some Ethiopian noble didn't dress up his bodyguard this way but they are really closer to some Italian Askari, maybe in dress uniform or in earlier uniforms.  I've grown attached to them not least because their loose pats were easy to paint compared to the Ethiopian shammas.

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That last unit are great

[lowlylowlycook]

Thanks.

The more I think on it the more I like these Kagnew battalion fellows, that is the Ethiopians in Korea.  Apparently the fought well, gave up no MIA or prisoners and left no bodies behind.  Furthermore they wore and used surplus US WW2 equipment.  No reason that I couldn't do them for Bolt Action or get started in 10mm and just be waiting for some North Koreans or Chinese for them to fight.

Reading up on them brings up one of the reasons for the post rainy season flowers I used as bases.  One article mentioned that the Ethiopians came from an African desert country but managed to adapt to Korea.  It's true that the parts of Ethiopia that are close to or below sea level are pretty much hellish deserts, I doubt anyone from the tribes that live there would be allowed into the Imperial Guard.  Most of the Ethiopians are farmers and it's when the seasonal rains fail to come that famine breaks out.

That said, it doesn't get super cold and when my niece was carried out of the Indianapolis airport on Superbowl Sunday in February, she screamed like bloody murder.  I think she was out playing in the snow with her siblings later that day so, yeah, adaptable enough.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone makes some not too bulky late war Americans in 28mm. Or maybe 25mm would work.   Also OD primer would be nice.

[lowlylowlycook]

Tried to take some new/better pics to post back on the WWPD forums that got me into this in the first place.

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[FierceKitty]

An amazing number of people seem to be coming out of that hut! 

[cameronian]

The father of an old girlfriend of mine won his DSO 'escorting' Haile Selassie and his family to Jerusalem. Didn't have a high opinion of him at all.

[Techno]

Lovely work 'Cookie' !

You're getting these done at a fair old rate, as well ! 

Cheers - Phil.

[lowlylowlycook]

Haha.  I've only been posting things that have been already painted and doing the basing for the Italians.  Things will slow down when I'm back to painting.  Way down.

For FK.  Family sizes in rural Ethiopia are large.  Perhaps too large.

[Techno]

Ooooooh......You cheat !! 

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The high birth rate is to counter the traditionally high child mortality rate...

[lowlylowlycook]

Yes but over 100 in one hut?  With only a pair of enset trees to feed them?   It's going too far.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Creative cook!

[paulr]

Perhaps he had some help from a forum member who has been painting Carabiniers