19th Century Sudan Wargames Armies 1883-1885

In finishing the Gardner Gun today I have finished the Naval Brigade. At the ratio of 1/33 I am using I should really only have 5 figure...

The success of the Gatling Gun soon encouraged others into the market The Gardner Gun was invented in 1874 by a former Civil War Captain in ...

I've not been feeling very well this week and have hardly got any painting done. Added to that the weather has been horrible and it'...

The Royal Marines, along with a force of sailors, were the first British troops landed at Suakin. The 464 men and 14 officers of the RMLI we...

Despite a trip to the US last week I managed to finish the officer and two more men for the RLMI; so that is a third of them done. Although ...

I ordered these just before I left for California last week and they arrived whilst I was away. There do seem to be an awful lot of them! I ...

I've added a link to David Bickley's pages on his Sudan army. Nice to see another madman taking this on. I'm very jealous of his...

I can't avoid it any longer. There were two big Highland regiments at El Teb and Tamai so I have just put in an order from the Perries f...

Well, I got three painted rather than the six I was aiming for this week, but that's because I did some more Spartans and some GNW Swede...

So, having done the Zulu War, the first Boer War, the Bepedi war and the Afghan War, John Wilcox is sending his Sharpe-like hero, Simon Font...