19th Century Ruga-Ruga with Gripping Beast Plastics

Hven´t been much painting lately but I have at least managed to paint the last minis from the Gripping Bests plastic medieval Arab Spearmen and Archers box that I use to build me a 19th century Zanzibar Slaver force. Pictures below show the 12 Ruga-Ruga Bandits/Mercenaries.

In The Men Who Would Be Kings rules I probably will run them as Poorly Armed Irregular Infantry with Sharpshooters and Field Craft @ 5 points.

Poorly Armed but with Sharpshoter as they most often used Antiqued Muskets loade with stones, metal scrap, marbells etc, more like a short ranged shootgun, i.e increased Firing Value due to the Sharpshooter option.

19th Century Baluchis with Gripping Beast Plastics

During the last week i continued to paint minis from the Gripping Bests plastic medieval Arab Spearmen and Archers box that I use to build me a 19th century Zanzibar Slaver force. Pictures below show the 12 Baluchis with Sword and Shields.

In The Men Who Would Be Kings rules I probably will run them as Fierce Irregular Infantry @ 6 points.

The one of you that already are familiar with the rules know that Fierce are not a Option for Irregular Infantry, but I give them the option anyway to illustrate the Baluchis:

Fierce: Fighting becomes 4+. Cost +2 points

This ease to adjust Dan´s "Rampant" serie of rules I realy love.

Next up are the Ruga-Ruga.

19th Century Arab Slavers with Gripping Beast Plastics

So here follows some pictures of the first painted minis from my use of the Gripping Bests lovely plastic medieval Arab Spearmen and Archers box as a base.

The first I decided to paint was the 16 Arab Askaris I built me, I hope you think they turned out good enought, next up willl be the 12 Baluchis with Sword and Shields.

Gripping Beast Medieval Plastic Arabs as 19th Century Zanzibar Slavers

As I got me a copy of Dan Merseys latest rules "The Men Who Would Be Kings" I thought I needed to paint me some new minis for the Darkest Africa....

For Darkest Afrika games in 28mm you have a bunch of lovely metal minis from Foundry and also from North Star, but as you know I like to cut cost by using plastics...

So I decided to go for some Zanzibar Slavers using the Gripping Bests lovely plastic medieval Arab Spearmen and Archers box as a base for them. In a box I get 40 minis so it would be enough to build me 3 units of 12 minis with 4 extras.

The units I will build from the box are:

• 12 +4 Arab Askaris
• 12 Baluchis
• 12 Ruga-Ruga

To get the minis in the box moving from the medievaltimes to 19th century I used a bunch of left over muskets from different Perry plastic Napoleonic and ACW boxes, as well as the Perry Sudanes box. I used some heads from the Wargames Factory Zulu box for the Ruga-Ruga. I also had some left over heads, swords, shields from the Gripping Beast Mounted Arab boxes that come in handy.

Here are a bunch of pictures of the 40 minia I built, painting next...

Arab Askaris

Ruga-Ruga

Baluchis

Additional Arab Askaris

Novgorodians to defend against the Crusaders

Inspired by the up-coming plastic Russians from FireForege I just had to try to build a few my self, ending up with 30 painted minis.

I have mixed Gripping Best Vikings, Dark Age warriors, Arab Heavy cavalry parts and some FireForge Foot Sergeant parts as well as adding 6 resin casts from Fire Forge and their Armoured Arab Archers.

Polish cavalry

Due to my Polish War campaing I have built me some Cavalry, Light and Armoured, the last 12 Armoured ones have just been finished and I also found some nice banners to use to:)