Basing the Hadendowa mounted band

On Friday evening I promised myself that by the end of the weekened I would have assembled and based the Hadendowa camel mounted band, and finished painting the rifle armed band, two spear and sword armed bands, and the command group.

I did a bit better than that, since all the foot and command figures are shaded too; just the highlights to do before varnishing. The camel mounted band of 12 rifle and spear armed warriors is based, waiting for the sandy paste to dry … which I managed to apply without getting any on the figures – a first!

So … all’s well with the world of Sands of Soudan.

Waiting for the sandy paste to dry … Perry Miniatures with a couple of conversions (the fellow on the white camel and the fellow in the bottom foreground have plastic arms holding rifles, to which I added foil slings). The flag is by Adrian’s Walls.

More flags

Seeking out flags for the Mahdists I discovered a comprehensive range from US-based The Armchair General, and considered buying sets. However, once I had a chance to review the flags included with the Perry Miniatures’ plastic Mahdist Ansar, I concluded that I could work with the more modest offering from Adrian’s Walls. I was also swayed by the significant advantage of much lower postage costs from a UK supplier.

Adrian’s Walls offers a single sheet of eight different flags, duplicated three times; 24 in all. Plenty for my purposes at this early stage the project. 

The flags are finely detailed …

… and well printed on very thin stock.