From TeemuL: Arabian Nights Dogfights (60 points)

My Peninsular War project is going well, here are the next two stands for my British Army. The last two to finish the six stand squad will be painted and posted in March. Nothing special with these, except that this time there are some commander miniatures, squad leader, standard bearer (without the flag) and two drummers. I'm quite sure that some of those should have reverse colours or something else special, but I was too far with my painting process when I remembered that.

And now we get to the title, Arabian Nights Dogfights. I know a gamer from Yarkshire who is crazy about all the historical missmatch games like Trench Crusade and others. These two minis are partly inspired by his enthuasism to all wild things that could be. :) Partly inspired the minis I happened to have, but mostly inspired by a post in an earlier AHPC, which I was not able to find nor remember the author/painter. That post had couple of magic carper riders and I decided to follow that lead.

The minis are Afghans by Perry Miniatures and the magic carpet is just a plain Renendra base from one of the Perry boxes. I first built the unarmed one and while I was cutting the sword from his hand I thought why he wouldn't have a sword? So the second one got a sword, he might have a upper hand in this dogfight. Colours were picked purely by rule of cool and I tried to create convincing looking patterns for the carpets. The carpets are bit flat, but I can live with that.

Naturally I don't have any rules for these minis, but Arabian Nights Dogfights sounds so cool, I'm sure someone will create rules in no time at all. Once the rules are ready, I'm ready, too.

Scoring is quite simple, the Napoleonics are easy: 8 minis for total of 40 points, but magic carpet riders are bit trickier. Two 28mm minis for ten points, but are they mounted? 10 points each? Or are the carpets just bases... I'll leave that to my Minion, but I'm happy for total of 50 points.

P.S. Quite often I have had a winter holiday this time of year and this year is not an exception. Usually we have been up north in the Lapland, but this time we are home. And when the weather is nice, why leave home? Sky is blue, snow on the ground and I guess it has been over a month below 0 degrees Celcius! Less skiing and less snow shoe walking, but more ice skating and painting, so two entries this week.

 Gosh Teemu, what an eclectic but gorgeous final entry for you today! I do love those flying carpets great work on them. Since they have such intricate patterns handpainted on, I will consider them as 28mm cavalry figures indeed. Enjoy the snow, here it's just raining all day!

 Cheers Sander