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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Sudan - more Nile Navy and supply train

Participation in the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is giving me a great boost in getting my teeth into this project.  Since January when I started, I've covered one of the large really useful boxes and am now building levels so I can get more layers into the box considering the relative height of these 10mm miniatures.

A bit of mixture of units for the Sudan game this week:

  • more for the Nile Navy
  • baggage train 
  • British mule trains for the guns and maxims
After the papyrus rafts of last week, I now doing the remaining two types of vessels that I have for the locals on the Nile. I have a few more of each of these - but wanted to paint some as a proof of concept and to get the colours right. So we have a ‘dhow’ and two rafts. Like the papyrus boats, these are actually 15mm and are from Museum Miniatures.






Next up is the beginnings of a baggage train - like all the other 10mm stuff they are from Pendraken.


I’ve got two different mule trains for guns from the Pendraken North-West frontier range. Three bases are Maxim Gun teams (standing in for Gatling Guns) and the others are a Mountain Gun teams with an extra base as they included three extra barrel mules. These will stand in for any British Artillery battery - even though I have limbers to do.






The actual baggage is made up of native porters and baggage camels. 





Next will be artillery and Mahdist cavalry. 

2 comments:

  1. Love the camel train! You are really cranking out the figures. It will be interesting to see the whole project review once the Challenge is finished.

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  2. Thanks as always Jonathan - and I have as many again to do in the box. My intention is to play these 10mm forces on at least an 8*5 table hence the large 60/72 figure British battalions and the large groups of extras.

    I will need to get terrain done to put them all out - but all should be done by the end of the year.

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