Post Colonial Imagi-Nations

Alongside ARISTEIA I’ve also been working on my African Imagi-Nations. This has been a project stretching back a few years now but it’s rather slow to develop as sourcing figures and the like can be rather time consuming. Actually finding what I want a force to BE is also a large time sink, how I want them to look/what equipment they would use etc. The forces came from an interest in African history as a whole, due to family connections and events, as well as a love of late WWII and early Cold War equipment that is a hallmark of such conflicts.

At the moment there are currently two nations/forces, those of Beitland (a South Africa/Rhodesia/Colonial Power analogue) and West mBrosia (an independent majority ruled post-colonial nation). The former uses mostly late WWII British equipment mixed with Early Cold War Nato/British and the latter is your more common Soviet/Warsaw Pact materiel. I am quite happy with the direction both forces have taken although I am a little unsure how to expand the mBrosian forces while keeping the 1950’s to 70’s African theme.

Both armies represent (mostly) regular troops as I have little desire to wargame insurgencies, at least for these Imagi-Nations, as I don’t feel it was be particularly exciting or necessarily allow me to use the miniatures and equipment that I would like.

There will likely be more posts in the future detailing the nations and challenges of finding/adapting a ruleset that captures the nature of such a conflict.

All miniatures that are posted are 15mm/1:100.
 

A Platoon of Beitland Light Infantry

A Troop of Beitland Centurion 5/2s

Beitland Armoured Car patrol with 2 Staghound IIIs and Daimler Dingo

More Armoured Cars, this time Daimler Ferret Mk 2s

The majority of figures posted above are complete, although they may need a few touch ups to the bases and the odd highlight here and there. The miniatures are mostly Battlefront (Vietnam Australians) with a smattering of Peter Pig (for the short shorts and FN MAGs) and QRF (the Ferrets).

This is the whole, painted, Beitland force alas it is too big for my shoddy lightbox.

The West mBrosian forces shall be shown in a forth coming post. They are, however, in a far greater state of 'work in progress'.