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[chalklands]

With the Sudan series I think there is a need for a zareba. Does anybody have any pictures of one? I am presuming they were just thorny bushes piled up?? Don't know if there is anything available that may do the job?

 

[PolarBear]

Zareba: A zareba is an enclosure, usually for animals in Africa, constructed of brush. It derives from the Arabic word for pen.

 

[chalklands]

Zareba: A zareba is an enclosure, usually for animals in Africa, constructed of brush. It derives from the Arabic word for pen.

Thanks Randy.

Wonder if there's anything in the garden (bits of a bush, shrub etc) that would do when dried. I'll have to have a look.

 

[mikemiller1955]

Randy...do you have any pictures or references of actual "real photographs" of the tent/straw structures from your pictures in this thread?

 

[aujj65]

Thanks Randy.

Wonder if there's anything in the garden (bits of a bush, shrub etc) that would do when dried. I'll have to have a look.

Rubberised horse hair cut to random shapes and dry brushed with suitable paint gives a quite good effect. I used this many years ago when I used to wargame in this period.

Jeff

 

[PolarBear]

Randy...do you have any pictures or references of actual "real photographs" of the tent/straw structures from your pictures in this thread?

Michael

No photos so far. But here are illustrations based on sketches done on the spot by military artists and artist-correspondents (e.g. Frederic Villiers) for the illustrated papers such as The Graphic and Illustrated London News during the Anglo-Sudan War. They show both a zereba and the types of bushes found in the Sudan that were used for cover.

Finally, my quick mockup using Reindeer Moss from Jo-Ann's that captures the basic look of the shrubs pretty well, is cheap, and very easy to use. Maybe you or others may find a better material. JG has an undergrowth foliage that might work shown below.

Hope this helps.

Randy

 

[aujj65]

Michael

No photos so far. But here are illustrations based on sketches done on the spot by military artists and artist-correspondents (e.g. Frederic Villiers) for the illustrated papers such as The Graphic and Illustrated London News during the Anglo-Sudan War. They show both a zereba and the types of bushes found in the Sudan that were used for cover.

Finally, my quick mockup using Reindeer Moss from Jo-Ann's that captures the basic look of the shrubs pretty well, is cheap, and very easy to use. Maybe you or others may find a better material. JG has an undergrowth foliage that might work shown below.

Hope this helps.

Randy

Randy, is this what we call Lichen?

Jeff

 

[PolarBear]

Randy, is this what we call Lichen?

Jeff

Jeff

I believe that it is. Model train shops stock this product as well in different colors.


Randy

 

[thebritfarmer]

Randy...do you have any pictures or references of actual "real photographs" of the tent/straw structures from your pictures in this thread?

Randy I think it was these structures that Michael was talking about.

 

[aujj65]

Rubberised horse hair cut to random shapes and dry brushed with suitable paint gives a quite good effect. I used this many years ago when I used to wargame in this period.

Jeff

This is quite useful stuff for making spiky hedges etc.

Jeff

 

[Wraith]

This is quite useful stuff for making spiky hedges etc.

Jeff

At the risk of sounding like a complete male chauvinist pig, who has never picked up a dish cloth in his life, what is this JefF?

Or rather, what type of scourery thingy is it? Effects look pretty neat.

 

[PolarBear]

Randy I think it was these structures that Michael was talking about.

Those appear to be Bell tents

Randy

 

[PolarBear]

Rubberised horse hair cut to random shapes and dry brushed with suitable paint gives a quite good effect. I used this many years ago when I used to wargame in this period.

Jeff

Where does one get rubberized horsehair? I gather it doesn't come in green?

Randy

 

[aujj65]

At the risk of sounding like a complete male chauvinist pig, who has never picked up a dish cloth in his life, what is this JefF?

Or rather, what type of scourery thingy is it? Effects look pretty neat.

Simon,

It's ok, nothing to do with washing up! It's Rubberised Horse Hair, its used as stuffing in granny's old sofa and such. It can be obtained from upholsterers.

Jeff

 

[Wraith]

Where does one get rubberized horsehair? I gather it doesn't come in green?

Randy

Not since the worldwide shortage of green, no.

 

[aujj65]

Where does one get rubberized horsehair? I gather it doesn't come in green?

Randy

unless you have a green horse!

Jeff

 

[Wraith]

Simon,

It's ok, nothing to do with washing up! It's Rubberised Horse Hair, its used as stuffing in granny's old sofa and such. It can be obtained from upholsterers.

Jeff

That explains why my washing up was always less than satisfactory then. Wondered why I got funny looks trying to scrub the pots and pans with an armchair seat cushion.
Cheers for the info.

 

[Wraith]

unless you have a green horse!

Jeff

....or a green camel, like Brad.

 

[aujj65]

Not since the worldwide shortage of green, no.

What is with the green!

Jeff

 

[Martin Tabony]

Just to let you know, taking a girl down the stables to see the horse with the green tail is a euphemism!

Martin