15mm Beja Camels?

Started by Big Insect, 13 August 2025, 09:09:29 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Big Insect

Hi all.
Another fringe question for the 'hive mind'.
I am looking for a manufacturer of 15mm Beja or Hadendoa camel riders (& camels).More african looking than Arab.
There are plenty of turbaned, capped or bare headed Sudanese type models on the market (Essex do a lovely pack) but "they are not the camels I am looking for"!
I was pointed towards the Lancashire Games 18mm range & they were perfect for what I was looking for, but they are closer to 20mm than 15mm.
Anyway. I just thought I'd ask.
Cheers
Mark (F)
'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.' Xenophon, The Anabasis

This communication has been written by a dyslexic person. If you have any trouble with the meaning of any of the sentences or words, please do not be afraid to ask for clarification. Remember that dyslexics are often high-level conceptualisers who provide "outside of the box" thinking.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Easy, used both the following as Tuaregs in my Nigerian Hausa forces
Old Glory via Timecast
https://www.timecastmodels.com/the-sudan-campaigns-1881-1889p
Three different types.

Or Forged in Battle camel riders
https://www.forgedinbattle.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=214&product_id=933
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Big Insect

Thankyou

Good thinking, but sadly they are all far too 'araby'. Turbans & robes.

What I am looking for are your proper Corporal Jones - 'fuzzy-wuzzys' on camels, in loin cloths.
I have a mass of the minifigs 15mm infantry, which I use as ancient Beja, but have been missing my camel contingent, so far.
'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.' Xenophon, The Anabasis

This communication has been written by a dyslexic person. If you have any trouble with the meaning of any of the sentences or words, please do not be afraid to ask for clarification. Remember that dyslexics are often high-level conceptualisers who provide "outside of the box" thinking.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Peter Pig range 6 - heads?
They do Camel riders in skullcaps in their Colonial range too.
https://www.peterpig.co.uk/22%20Sudan%20colonial.html
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

sultanbev

I have some, 9 bareheaded fuzzy-wuzzies, 2 with turban, 1 with skull cap, already painted, I think they are Blue Moon or archived proper 15mm Lancashire Games.


If you want them PM me your address and I'll post 'em out to you, they're no use to me.

Mark

Last Hussar

Quotecloser to 20mm than 15mm

Could you just put them a bit further away?

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

GNU PTerry

steve_holmes_11

My poor keyboard, drowning in tea - it is.

Big Insect

Quote from: sultanbev on 14 August 2025, 01:33:43 PMI have some, 9 bareheaded fuzzy-wuzzies, 2 with turban, 1 with skull cap, already painted, I think they are Blue Moon or archived proper 15mm Lancashire Games.


If you want them PM me your address and I'll post 'em out to you, they're no use to me.

Mark

Thanks Mark, much appreciated, they certainly look more like what I am after.
I wasnt aware LG had some 'archived' 15mm colonials.
I'll PM you.
Cheers
Mark
I a
'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.' Xenophon, The Anabasis

This communication has been written by a dyslexic person. If you have any trouble with the meaning of any of the sentences or words, please do not be afraid to ask for clarification. Remember that dyslexics are often high-level conceptualisers who provide "outside of the box" thinking.

sultanbev

Quote from: Big Insect on 14 August 2025, 07:33:31 PMI wasnt aware LG had some 'archived' 15mm

Yes, the sculptor who did what are now archived range
https://www.lancashiregames.com/lg/the-archive.html
was very good, but he fell ill before completing all the ranges. If people look at the 1792 Rev. war Austrians and Prussians, they are some of the nicest 15mm sculpts around. Unfortunately the replacement sculptor could only do fat 18mm figures, so all their current releases are completely incompatible with their archived 15mm, and don't really fit in with anybody elses' 15/18mm either.
Such a shame, and this is one reason why I packed in 15mm, because even though I had helped Lanc Games with some figure designs I wanted (Cairo Janissaries, Mamelukes, Tibetans) they were just too huge to use.
Unfortunately I don't think I'll see Cairo Janissaries, Egyptian/Syrian Mamelukes and Tibetans in 10mm in my lifetime....