Esci Set 238 Muslim Warriors

I painted some of these figures in the past in red and white. Now I wanted to paint them in black and blue to get some variation in the troops. For those who want to know, the figures are painted black and then get a drybrush with grey paint. You can add different layers of drybrush with every next time a lighter grey to get more depth. Figures are original Esci in scale 1/72. Painted with acrylic paints.

I hope you like them!

Thanks for watching!

Painted in 2023

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 6

    - Horses: 8

    - Cannons: 0

    - Wagons: 2

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 1

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 54

Waterloo1815 AP011 Dervish Infantry

Just a small to let you all know that I'm still alive. I'm so busy with a lot of things, private as work, that there isn't much time for blogger. To catch up with you all it will be in the winter hollidays. I hope I find time then to visit your blogs.

In the mean time I found some time to paint some more figures for my slowly growing Muslim/Arab army. This time the ones from Waterloo1815. These are from rather hard plastic, put painted up very well. As allways with acrylic paint.

Here are the pictures (a lot!):

But I really like how the donkey turned out:

I hope you like them!

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Esci set 238 Muslim Warriors Part 2

I could have split these up, but I'm so happy I have these finished that I post them all in one go! These are the last nine poses of this set. I posted six figures earlier in my Esci set 238 Muslim Warriors Part1 post. In that post you can also read how I painted them. Very simple as I may say.

As you can see my small Muslim army is growing every time a little bit more. I also finished the figures (one of each pose in the set) of another set but that is for later on this month. Wich means I'm getting close to the end of this small project I wanted to do this year.

Enjoy the pictures!

One of the chiefs!

Strange that after taking pictures, that
you allways see some things that has to
be corrected!

As said, I wanted to keep it simple, so red on the flag,
and no marks!

I hope you like them!

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Airfix Set 01719 Arabs (Bedouins)

Just a quick post at the end of the month. Finished these figures this week and I thought why not posting them directly. This set is from the year I was born, so very old! And what me most surprised is that the sculpting of this figures isn't that bad. Not to much moldlines and flash, so for me that is excellent as I hate it to remove those. A complete review of this set and the year (!) they are produced can be found here!

 

The set contains ten different figure poses, two horse poses and two camel poses. I painted all ten different figures and all the horses and camels from the set. As I'm planning that these will join my Arabian/Muslim army I kept the same color scheme as for the other figures. White and red as the main colors. For a more colored version of these figures, have a look at the blog of my good friend Paul, Paul's Bods. He even painted Omar Shariff!

 

First a picture of the whole bunch. As can be seen four standing/lying figures, three horse riders and three camel riders.

 

 

 

 

Here some closer pictures of the standing and lying figures. The one fyering in lying position isn't that good. I couldn't remove the plastic on his head because I would have ruined the figure.

 

 

 

Next are the riders. They make a nice command group together. I also can tell that is was a hard job to get those horses on the bases. It didn't fit nicely, so I had to fix it with some super glue!

 

Three horse riders is a bit less, so I hope that Strelets will soon release their Lawrence of Arabia set. The box art and the masters of this set can be seen here!

 



 

 

 

And here are the camel riders. Again some nice figures to represent a command group. I had a little accident with the camel on the right. By removing flash, I cut off the left leg. I tried to restore it as good as possible.

 

 

 

The next pictures are showing what is done from this army so far. First the camelry, then with the cavalry and next the whole bunch together with the infantry!

 

 

 

That was it for now. I hope you like them, and the next ones will be again from Esci! See you soon!

 

 

 

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