Abyssinian Crisis: Mehal Sefari - just some test figures

In order to approach the rendering of the skin colors found in Ethiopia, which in the original range from dark brown to reddish skin tones, I did some tests with different color and wash combinations, and after finding some schemes that worked well, I wanted to test the effect on fully painted figures.So...

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Abyssinian Crisis: 1st Half-Platoon Mehal Sefari - Conversions Part 2

As it turned out, the Wolseley helmets of Perry unfortunately do not fit to the figures of Copplestone and Empress - the Perry figures and accordingly their helmets are simply too delicate and do not look suitable on the filed heads.This can be seen well on the photos of part 1, so I started again from...

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Zeitreisen: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster

Im Sommer in kühlen Museumshallen unterzutauchen, um der Hitze zu entfliehen und dabei noch etwas für die eigene Bildung tun - für mich und meine Tochter war das in den Sommerferien verlockend genug, um uns auf die Fahrt gen Norden zum Panzermuseum Munster aufzumachen. Und die letzten Tage hatte ich...

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Abyssinian Crisis: 1st Half-Platoon Mehal Sefari - Conversions Part 1

And here we go with the first half-platoon of my planned Mehal Sefari for the Abyssinian War, which could also be used in 1941, when the British liberated Abyssinia.The choice of suitable figures is quite limited, Empress has to my knowledge the only line of figures for Mehal Sefari, but support weapons...

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Abyssinia Crisis: Historical Background

My next main project will be about the 2nd Abyssinian War 1935 (Italian-Ethiopian War) - Ethiopia was still called Abyssinia at that time, the whole thing based on the Chain of Command rules.How does one come up with such a topic, one might surely ask.On the one hand, there is a website dedicated to the conflict and its implementation in wargames, which I read regularly and which is absolutely recommendable:https://abyssiniancrisis.wordpress.com/On...

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Afrikakorps - 1st Infantry Squad

In den letzten Tagen hatte ich eine kleine Bermalblockade, was mein städtisches Aufgebot für Lion Rampant angeht, stattdessen hatte ich durch unser letztes, in Afrika angesiedeltes Freitagsspiel Lust bekommen, mich an den Um- und Zusammenbau einerseits meiner Truppe für das Afrikakorps zu machen, sowie...

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