Ansars on a postcard

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Fernando
Thanks for the compliment. Glad you like them...hopefully the sand bases will set off the clothing....
Cheers
Tim

[JR]

Still wide awake Tim.
Great painting, and colours.
John.

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
Thanks for the support, I always like to keep my audience riveted.....(guess the film if you like, nothing to do with British Colonials)
Cheers
Tim

[JR]

:smiling::smiling::smiling:

[Tim Marlow]

You lot are no help...I’ve just noticed I need to do the necklace on the flag waver....Dohh!!!

[wotan]

Tim

Very nice, I would say very Mary Quant if you remember the 60's. I just bought some 28mm figures to have a go at having seen your guys. Victrix are very nice.

John

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
I think Victrix are at least as good as the Perry stuff. If you remember the old place my Napoleonic British foot artillery were Victrix. Very expressive faces.... which ones did you get? Gripping Beast are also supposed to be good....don’t like Warlord as much, they look a little cartoonish.
Thanks for the comment by the way, You’ll enjoy the little lads, but remember the scale and don’t try to get everything in, it’ll drive you mad....
Agree ref Mary Q, especially the two guys in the long smocks. Don’t think she sold spears though....
Cheers
Tim

[wotan]

Tim
I ordered these guys for the old MM desert group build. They took a while to get delivered and then the golf season has intervened. I will get to them soon to see if I can build a little dio.

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John

[Guest]

Great work Tim, very colourful and beautifully painted.

I like the story of the Jibbeh. Originally a patched and worn mendicant's tunic, the patches became formalized when the garments were made as new and adopted by the mahdists.

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
Nice choice. They have been well reviewed so it will be nice to see what you make of them....
Hi Peter
Thanks for the support, not sure how formal the patches were, there are loads of pictures around and they all look different...I would say they got more complex as time went on though....
Finishing basing work today, so may have some final shots later today or tomorrow...
Cheers
Tim

[Tim Marlow]

Well here you go then
Ansars on a postcard....
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I bought the postcard in downtown Omdurman, but as English was not their first language it seems they couldn't spell "Weren't".....
Then again, it might have been me :tired:
I'll put together some better photographs next weekend and put them in a finished build thread....I quite like them, but think my sand basing is a bit yellow...
Cheers
Tim

[Guest]

Terrific Tim.

[Tim Marlow]

Thanks Peter

[JR]

Love it Tim .
Great job :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:
John .

[Tim Marlow]

Thanks John, appreciate the comment....