| Red Shadow
Pack Animals and other Wildlife |
French
Foreign Legion Machine Gun Pack Mule.
This was a fairly
easy conversion model. The mules are from Dixon's ACW range and are listed
as Ammunition |
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| Pack Mules.
I took a left over Machine Gun from the Old Glory French Foreign Legion
machine gunner set and assembled it in a collapsed - disassembled manner
on one of the mules. The gun itself is one one side, the tripod on
the other. The gun assembly is removable so that it can be removed to indicate
that the weapon is being unloaded prior to assembly. The legionaries are
just marching models - I removed their bayonets to distinguish them from
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| These
pack camels are from Irregular miniatures. There are a couple of different
types. Some come with loads that are a little more ancients looking, but
such trapping can easily be removed and replaced by bits of luggage. One
of the camels is supposed to be a bactrian camel, but with it's load spread
all over it's back, its impossible to tell that there are supposed to be
two humps |
| Armies
often needed to drag their own food supplies - which was more efficient
to move on the hoof. These sheep are from irregular and make excellent
victory points for raiding warrior bands. The French took vast herds od
sheep with them on their conquests - up to several thousand animals. |
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| These
cows serve the same purpose as the sheep.
Irregular also make
African wild life animals including African cattle, camels, lions, crocodiles,
elephants and many others. |
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| We
use these mules in our baggage trains, water barrel carriers - again, from
irregular - loosing these to the raiding war band spells almost certain
death.
There are a number
of varieties of pack animals available from |
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| Irregular
and a number of other companies also produce at least one pack hors, mule
and/or camel. Mixing a number of these models together should produce a
very varied looking pack train. |
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| Also not to be overlooked
for a source of animals, is the toy department store. This rhino was part
of an African Animals set of 20 or so animals for $3.00. He's shown here
next to a Foundry hunter from the DA range to give an idea of scale |
| The
majority of the images displayed in the "cast" section were taken on a
Nikon
Coolpix 900 Digital Camera.
Some
of the then were scanned on a flatbed scanner by laying the figure directly
on the glass.
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