19th Century Sudan Wargames Armies 1883-1885

I have been painting all sorts of other stuff lately, especially a lot of Darkest Africa stuff, but my recent visit to Egypt has got me prep...

I have finished the Egyptians I bought on eBay the other month. They are going to represent the Cairo Gendarme Battalion which formed part o...

Lord Cromer's Room I spent a few days in Cairo the other week running a meeting with the Egyptian Government in the British Ambass...

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...