Meanwhile, back in the Heart of Darkness...

 ...I have been wielding the Brush of Doom over the first few figures I bought at 'Ommer'ead from Wargames Foundry, or subsequently from North Star by mail order. First up are some Copplestone Castings female archers. These five figures are destined to join the Maiden Guard of King Bykalaizii m'Tuubi in British South Central East Africa - a lost 'colony' not even recalled today by aging stamp collectors!

I've provisionally decided on mostly round bases of 50, 40 & 30mm for all fighting elements in the collection, in groups of 3, 2, & 1 figures. The figures comprising the Colonial arm are so far fixed to their new bases, which need texturing, washing, dry brushing and vegetaing still! Painting these five figures was a good opportunity to experiment with a different colour palette for the ground work, based on Burnt Sienna as the foundation ~

Alongside these figures I've been working on the first of the Ruga-Ruga figures, which I've chosen from both the Foundry and Copplestone ranges, and a test Foundry male native archer. I expect their fellows will appear in a future blog posting as and when they are done, but in the meantime here are the test figures I just mentioned ~

I've no firm recollection of when I assembled the older parts of this collection, but judging by the mix of figures in comparison with the current blistering it may well have been back in the now sadly lost Golden Age of buying individual castings. While I'm on a roll with the project in question I have cleaned up, assembled and spray undercoated the relevant remaining figures in the Lead Pimple, mostly a mixture of various Warrior types with spear and shield. My plan is to process all of the figures now ready for their passage under the Brush of Doom before returning to the Age of Arthur project. Plans though, we all know what happens to them don't we?

Now, where did I put that old stamp album?

*Stamps & map courtesy of Gemini of course.