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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Colonial German Marines

Sometime in the near future, Christian and myself, are planning to put on a "Darkest Africa" skirmish spectacular. We have quite a few miniatures between us, both painted and bare metal, that should allow us to field about four factions.
We are going with a Native, Slave Trader, Ruga-Ruga and German faction at the time, with the option to expand those in the future. I will contribute to the Germans, Slave Traders and the Ruga-Ruga. A lot of my stuff is thankfully already painted (not by myself) but could do with a re-base.
Below is a small part of the German faction, including some marines, their sergeant and an envoy. Again most of these were painted by another but I have used Army Painter on them to try and unify their look with ones that I will need to paint. They have been re-based as well. The figures are all Copplestone, except the umbrella bearer, who I believe is from Foundry. (Click the image to enlarge)
The German Marines

10 comments:

  1. Apologies if this duplicates the earlier comment that seems to have disappeared.

    Here's a link to a site on German Colonial uniforms:

    http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk/


    -- Jeff

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  2. Oh this is going to be spectacular! Looking forward to see more.
    Will you be using Sharp Practice or someting else from TFL? Or something else entirely?

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  3. Looking good inspired me to dust of my German Naval Brigade.

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  4. I don't know what they looked like before but your re basing and army painter has turned these into a fine looking unit.

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  5. Quite spectacular work there!

    Who made the hut? Is it scratch build or a purchase?

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  6. Excellent news! Looking forward to this. =)

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  7. Thanks all.
    @Bluebear. Thanks for the link.
    @ NW Crew. As tempted as I am to try out a Sharp Practice Colonial variant I found on the Lead Adventure Forum, we are going with Triumph and Tragedy as it really captures small unit actions in this era.
    @Rob. The hut is my own scratch build - see http://adventuresinlead.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/even-more-indian-huts.html

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  8. Oh I say, these look absolutely splendid Sir.

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  9. Great looking stuff, love the brolly bearer!

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