Huasa project is now offically underway.
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html?fbclid=IwAR0maCnPPWW3FLR3ZYU3ASwbL4uCFotz1hjUbNcXJ96o7P72Wa4n13MhHOA
I have a Bornu & Kanem army in 15mm for my African Napoleonics, which has similar figures to the Hausa Kingdoms. Irregular Miniatures do most of them. I never got round to doing a Napoleonic Hausa army though.
Problem is now I'm switiching to 10mm, so want Pendraken to do all these armies in their deliciousness!
An excellent start to a fascinating army Will, I'll look forward to seeing more.
Mine you I think you're a bit balmy to alter the faces of 200+ 15mm figures.
If you are taking advice from Techno, does that include the 10 best ways to deposit an offering of blood on your little men? :D
Quote from: sunjester on 21 December 2019, 10:09:24 AM
If you are taking advice from Techno, does that include the 10 best ways to deposit an offering of blood on your little men? :D
He's teaching me how not to do it, learning by mistakes I believe...
Interesting to read about your Grandfather, who probably knew my wife's late God Father, Brian Fenton, who worked in Jos and at Kurra Falls. Maybe your mother might have known him? Anyway, the Hausa colourful robes would have only really been worn by the Emir's bodyguard etc. Most other cloth would have been fairly plain and one colour, as the top and trousers are always the same. The head dress would be any colour, but again fairly plain. If you start adding in Tuareg or Boozo, then the blues come into their own.
I know it's a bit colourful, but any excuse! ;D
Very interesting to read about your Grandfather, a great way for you to remember him :)
:-bd =D> :-bd
Terrific, Will !!
Those are coming along
spiffingly .
Quote from: paulr on 21 December 2019, 09:27:09 PM
Very interesting to read about your Grandfather, a great way for you to remember him :)
I totally agree. :)....A wonderful 'personal' project.
Quote from: sunjester on 21 December 2019, 10:09:24 AM
Mind you I think you're a bit barmy to alter the faces of 200+ 15mm figures.
It IS rather a lot !! ;D ;D ;D.....But Will's doing a damn fine job !
Quote from: sunjester on 21 December 2019, 10:09:24 AM
If you are taking advice from Techno, does that include the 10 best ways to deposit an offering of blood on your little men? :D
OI !! ;)......I've only stuck myself with a scalpel
once in the past few weeks !!
Cheers - Phil
Sorry Will, but I am a bit confused. Nothing unusual there, you might well say! I know precious little about either the area or period, but I have never heard of the Huasa people. Is this yet another example of my ignorance, or should that be the Hausa people? Or are they someone completely different, with a similar spelling?
It's a typo, it should be Hausa.
Typo
Thanks. Fascinating story, and great project!
Great stuff! and what at first looks like a very simple base for your camp, comes to life when you tell the story!!
Update with many many infantry.
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html
Really looking good, Will !
Keep up the good work. :)
Cheers - Phil
Lovely work Will. IIRC Kano is in the Sahel Savannah.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Light horse done and added. 8)
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html
Very nice Will.
First heavy unit added
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html
I'm being thick.....I can't find them. :(
Cheers - Phil
Right at the bottom I hope.
Just before the comments ;)
Hooray !! :-bd :-bd :-bd
They look really good, Will !
(I think it was because I was expecting to see them at the top.....where it was a case of, "I'm sure I've seen this before" ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
You defo need a eye test !!
First thing in the morning my eyes are bloody hopeless, when I'm trying to read things :'(
I can't see things on the screen....I totally miss-see words. =)
Yesterday I saw the word asymptomatic, on the PC......and I simply couldn't suss out what it said. (It was almost like having what I imagine dyslexia must be like.)
Hey, Ho ! X_X
Cheers - Phil (I shouldn't need another eye test for another year, by rights.....Long distance I'm fine...Same for close up work with the Optivisor.)
Two more heavy cavlry units added.
(Near the top this time Phil x)
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html
:-bd
~ ditto ~ :)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 26 March 2020, 10:38:38 AM
(Near the top this time Phil x)
No, they're not.
(Oh yes, they are....I've found them now.) =)
Damn fine show, Matey !! :)....Luv'em !!
Cheers - Phil.
Will you will have to dual language your captions, English/Welsh as Phil obviously cant read the English ones. :D
O, oes rhaid i mi! Mae fy lefel o Gymraeg mor wael mae'n sarhaus.
I'm not even going to bother. =) :P
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 March 2020, 09:43:28 AM
O, oes rhaid i mi! Mae fy lefel o Gymraeg mor wael mae'n sarhaus.
Da iawn Lemmey Bach :-bd
Mae Google translate yn wych!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 March 2020, 01:56:51 PM
Mae Google translate yn wych!
Odi, mae e - os nad yw awtocywir yn gwneid cawlach o fe! ;)
rwy'n eithaf sicr mai'r rhan fwyaf o'r hyn sy'n cael ei gyfieithu yw byncwm pur
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 March 2020, 04:15:31 PM
rwy'n eithaf sicr mai'r rhan fwyaf o'r hyn sy'n cael ei gyfieithu yw byncwm pur
Na, mae'r Cymraeg yn dod trwy go iawn 8)
Idan aka ba taken, ya kamata muyi amfani da harshen hausa?
ba zai iya yarda da ƙarin ba.
;D ;D ;D
Me kuke maganar banza?
Duk abin da muke ji, rashin nishaɗi ya shigo ciki.
Da sauri! Ya gano mu! Yi halin al'ada ...
;D ;D ;D X_X
Tuaregs added
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html
:-bd =D> :-bd
They're near, but not at, the top Phil ;)
I was going to say, "No they're not"....But I've found them now :D
Cracking work, Will. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Fully finished now
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/12/huasa-project-converted-war-and-empire.html
(Fully, meaning I might add a few units later)
:-bd =D> :-bd
A great project and a great way to remember your Grandfather =D> =D>
Super stuff, Will. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Awesome job - love the Queen Amina conversion :-bd
You know, it wasn't finished!
Two units of skirmishing javelinmen, a mixture of Arabs and Berbers from Timecast/Old Glory.
(https://i.imgur.com/9gJAv7C.jpg)
Just needed something to absorb some shooting in a new varient on the list (which in a shock, won a game).
(https://i.imgur.com/Y37SStA.jpg)
My usual view
(https://i.imgur.com/rGmra5C.jpg)
Top view
(https://i.imgur.com/uJQqkIq.jpg)
And now for something completely stupid...
(https://i.imgur.com/PHaFVPX.jpg)
Yes, four bases of stampeding cattles!
(https://i.imgur.com/HaqIDCI.jpg)
They're so bad that they're good (Poor, combat shy, devastating charge in MEG, which basically equals out at useless, but very, very cheap)!
(https://i.imgur.com/tIBspW9.jpg)
Moo-ve over! Coat?
(https://i.imgur.com/DJJwBA3.jpg)
Be fun milking all those cooows
Nice stuff, Will! :-bd
Nice stuff Will
I am looking for 15mm infantry (shielded spearmen and archers) and unarmoured (spear & shield armed) cavalry, both with the 'Alasho', that I can use as my Southron/Haradrim for my on-going LotR/Fantasy project.
I'm not keen on a mass of conversions Will ... did you find any good manufactuers?
Essex do a great 28mm veiled unarmoured Bedouin cavalryman in their Crusader range, but it doesnt appear in the 15mm range, unfortunately.
Cheers
Mark
Khurisain are your best bet.
I'll check them out - many thanks
I did not like the supplied spears with the elite cavalry, too short and WAAAAAAY too bendy, so I replaced them with some of Leon's most excellent 30mm spears!
(https://i.imgur.com/lJggLt8.jpg)
Much happier now
(https://i.imgur.com/7rNRIky.jpg)
Yup, they're good!
(https://i.imgur.com/eVqUi3x.jpg)
I also added the flag of Zeria which was Amena's home state.
(https://i.imgur.com/HdqPHUj.jpg)
Ho, Yus !!
I like them, LOTS ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
They look very nice Will 8).
An impressive cavalry horde - very colourful
wonderful >:<
I particularly like the colours and pattering on the rectangular long cavalry shields - it is very evocative of that area of Africa.
Nice to see a different army in-play - no matter how effective it is on the table top ;)
And particularly one with such a strong family connection :-bd
Quote from: paulr on 21 September 2021, 07:23:59 PM
And particularly one with such a strong family connection :-bd
Yes ... family connections can add an extra dimension to your gaming :D
I have a relative that won a Victoria Cross - defending his guns against Russian Cavalry - in the Crimea. His water colour paintings of the war are in the London Woolwich Artillery museum. So my 15mm Crimean British has him with a ramrod in one hand and a sabre in the other on an artillery base :)
I am also related to Captain Gronow - he of the famous Napoleonic memoires - who fought, as a very young Captain, in the 1st Foot Guards at Waterloo. I have a suitable 20mm foot guard officer for my British Napoleonic army.
It would be interesting to hear of other family connections in our armies 8)
Quote from: Big Insect on 22 September 2021, 08:18:08 AM
Yes ... family connections can add an extra dimension to your gaming :D
I have a relative that won a Victoria Cross - defending his guns against Russian Cavalry - in the Crimea. His water colour paintings of the war are in the London Woolwich Artillery museum. So my 15mm Crimean British has him with a ramrod in one hand and a sabre in the other on an artillery base :)
I am also related to Captain Gronow - he of the famous Napoleonic memoires - who fought, as a very young Captain, in the 1st Foot Guards at Waterloo. I have a suitable 20mm foot guard officer for my British Napoleonic army.
It would be interesting to hear of other family connections in our armies 8)
Indeed, family connections can be I think, an important criteria for why one takes up gaming.
In my case I don't have any famous military figures in the family tree. My grandfather was in the RA from 1916 to 1951, retired as a Brigadier after being part of the official British delegation to the 1949 Geneva Convention. He was involved with that as he was captured along with most of the 51st Highland Division at St Valery en Caux in 1940 by Rommel's 7th Panzer Division and was only released in May 1945, so he had a lot of first hand experience about treatment of POW's. I do have a lot of 6mm Spearhead 1940 stuff that's about 20 years old and probably needs some good TLC.
Don't think I got my wargaming interest from my Mum's side....her families main "interesting fact" was that her grandmother was J.M. Barrie's cousin and she lived in/near Kirriemuir for most of her life.
To keep the thread on track I must say that I really like your Huasa cavalry stands Will, with the shields and replacement spears they look excellent :-bd
Quote from: pierre the shy on 22 September 2021, 09:40:49 AM
To keep the thread on track I must say that I really like your Huasa cavalry stands Will, with the shields and replacement spears they look excellent :-bd
Indeed ... maybe I should start up a separate thread on the subject ;D ;D ;D :D
Quote from: pierre the shy on 22 September 2021, 09:40:49 AM
To keep the thread on track I must say that I really like your Huasa cavalry stands Will, with the shields and replacement spears they look excellent :-bd
On track? Are you new here? :) :) :)
However, I agree, great paint jobs, Will.
My 1944 British represent a company of 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment in early June, my father's unit.
This led to a classic quote when my son was commanding them, "be careful with that infantry or you'll get your grandfather killed".
After nearly two weeks of self-isolation I am back at work, after having only the radio and my paints for company, thought I had better show what I was up to all those days..
It had been nagging me that I had decided to use Tuareg for the London GT, but it had not arried in time, ordered some from Timecast. Unfortunately, the order of two packs got split between 'in stock' and 'shipped from the US', absolutely no fault of Timecast's, and I borrowed some of Roger's. The figures arrived shortly after and were amazing, but they got into the lead mountain last year on hold while I was painting everyone else's armies. So, with isolation, this wa the perfect time to do somthing for myself to finish off (that word - finish - again) this iteration of the project.
These are Ansar cavalry from the Colonial Sudan Wars range, that again I converted by grinding down their lower half of their faces and then adding appropriate coverings. They have a more 'uniform' appearence than the Tuareg camelry, as these are the elite of the nobility, and the flag just had to be added!
(https://i.imgur.com/tK53zAW.jpg)
Top view to show the range of headdresses and colours on their clothing.
(https://i.imgur.com/jtB9kva.jpg)
Suspect these might even see action against the Foreign Legion one day!
(https://i.imgur.com/a6HgqkH.jpg)
My normal view
(https://i.imgur.com/MY1zQXx.jpg)