Sudan: Rebasing and Adding Units

I can't believe almost 10 years have passed since I finished a unit from my 20mm (1/72) Sudan collection. I guess I have finished a huge AWI army and many other bits and pieces since then. But having done all that and to keep from going insane painting the recently finished Burgundians, I got the urge to finish this collection off.

Proof, if were needed, that a complete Newline square now exists 😆

Standard British Infantry Units

First up, the two final standard infantry units from Newline Designs to finish a brigade square.

Circa 1882, an army unit in grey serge above, could also be used for Royal Marines from the same campaign. 

To finish the square, the Yorkshire Regiment who were ordered back into red smocks for the battle of Ginniss in 1885.

Mounted Infantry

Next up some kit-based mounted infantry with dismounted options.

These are from the HaT Industries 8209 Zulu Wars: British Mounted Infantry box with head conversions. 

Back in 2022, I asked Elhiem Figures - a large producer of metal 20mm alternate heads - if he would take a commission for heads with pith helmets with puggarees (cloth wrapping) for use in the Sudan. He said yes and these are the first unit from HaT's Zulu war range to have had their plastics heads sliced off and replaced with Elheim's HED107 4 British Sudan War Pith helmets.

Primarily, this is to stop me going insane doing scale puggaree conversions - what was I thinking??!

Above, for the dismounted options for mounted infantry units I'm using Newline's Camel Regiment figures as the uniforms were indistinguishable apart from the colour, cord breeches and parent unit smock.

Rebasing the Ansar

At the same time as painting up new figures, I'm rebasing most of the Ansar units for standard Black Powder frontages. This is primarily because - and I can't remember why -  I based them with a different frontage to everything else...

When commissioning the heads I was sure to include a head for the 10th Hussars - with their parade spike added to the helmet as per their campaign in the Sudan. They're up next for this collection, along with, possibly, a unit for the York & Lancaster Regiment.

Finished! Burgundian Ordonnance for ADLG

 

Nearly a year after going down to the local club to see about ADLG ordonnance armies, my one is finally done.

Starting with a selection of mounted and foot knights above, I had visions of playing by Xmas last year 😆, but here's a few snaps of the finished army

Kinda painted various units up in a 'company' colour. This is the blue company - as the only company names I can find for the army are in Russian - so by colour it is. The pavises have decals from Little Big Men Studios.

Green and white company is next and made up enough bases of stakes so that each archer can deploy one.

Blue and white - the iconic scheme for Burgundians on nearly every piece of box art I could find.

Red and blue - could feasibly be used for WoTRs, and finally, A Flemish company contingent in yellow and hired Italian light horse with crossbows.

Have had a nightmare of a time trying to track down 4th Ed. ADLG, with several orders made, only to be told they were out of stock and it was out of print... so why let me order it and list it as in stock???? 😡

This might pose a problem playing a game as I only have 1st Ed, but at least there's enough bases to do two DBA armies of the period 😁 

Hail Caesar: Romans - Latin Legions and Gauls

Painting the ordonnance army from the previous post was getting to be a bit of a chore, so while I pressed on with it, I decided to finish some rebasing Romans for Hail Caesar.

I ended up completely finishing the two 'Latin' (from Rome and its direct territories) legions including the 10th and 13th (above two photos) and the remaining Equites below.

I also realised I had some left over Italeri horse from some project at some time, so based up a small unit (technically the Roman and Cart/Libyan cavalry are all small units in the army list).

The last two units of Principes got their pig decaling for the 10th Fretensis.

And Triarii for both legions got done.

These (s**t) photos really aren't doing these things justice and the Triarii look right mean in with their wreathed, black and blue shields.

This also included basing the last two units of Latin Velites and rebasing the other two onto bigger bases - no individual bases at this scale.

Finally for the Romans, they were in the same box so I based up a small unit of Cretan archers.

And last but not least, a unit of Italeri Gauls was rebased - double based Warband.

While the Ordonnance army is coming along nicely, I want it to be enjoyable to paint, not a chore, so doing things like this at the same time stops the painting from becoming mind numbing.

These last two units were painted years ago by Le Chasseur as I recall, as part of trying to get an army ready for DBM??? I've since bought three units of Newline Design Gauls but they are completely unpainted.