Basecoating the Beja

 

I've now assembled and basecoated the first of four units of Beja for The Men Who Would Be Kings and also Death in the Dark Continent. I really enjoyed gluing these together, much to my amazement, as I usually avoid plastic figures due to all the fiddly bits. The Perry Ansar are, however, very well designed and at the most require only five separate components per figure. I originally intended to use them for the second Suakin campaign but, after some further reading it seems that the iconic 'fuzzy wuzzy' hairdo had been banned by the Mahdist c1885 so they'll be used for the first campaign instead. I'll going to assemble another unit of sixteen before I start painting, so that I have at least half a force completed in one go, by which time I'll have run out of Halfords camo brown spray paint anyway.