Hullo,
Long time no post, what with global chaos and basically no gaming for 10 months, I've busied myself with improving my painting and not really wargame related activities. But 2021 see's me with a shiny new Games room/studio
And an ambition to do a bit of original historical research and army creation.
My intent is to produce a force for Lion Rampant initially, to represent the diverse Empire of Mali, around it's height – 1250-1350 or so. Images are limited and texts even more so, but with enough trawling (my rough and ready French and Google translate are assisting) adequate detail can be found. I started with some design roughs before moving on to miniatures:
Finding suitable mini's has been a challenge, and at present I have a selection of Wargames Foundry, Gripping Beast, and Northstar Miniatures to represent a blend of Jungle natives, Savanna peoples and Desert tribes, for an army that mixes Islamic and African traditional styles in both appearance and fighting.
Over the festive break I finally began on some miniatures:
You can read more on the project across these posts:
link Part 1
link Part 2
link Part 3
And for those who just want to look at increasingly pretty painting, you can stick to my more regularly updated Instagram:
link
Anyhow, an recommendations of suitable 28mm figure ranges I haven't already mentioned, or good sources of images or texts, gladly received!
