Africans

Africa was further represented by two more pieces.

 I made a figure of King Maqoma of the Xhosa Tribe. A simple piece - this was a Preiser conversion mounted on a W Britains horse. The cheetah cape turn out was sculpted from putty.
This piece is now in a private collection.

 A more ambitious piece was that of the Wodaabe tribe, based on three figures. I was inspired by an article in National Geographic where these treibesmen would don fancy clothes and stand in a line with their gleaming teeth, singing songs to woo the ladies. One of the pictures showed a figure with an umbrella to shield him from the hot sun. This was converted from various bits. I used several 1/35 scale components mixed with 1:32 scale parts to represent the smaller and wiry build of these natives.
One of my all-time favourite pieces!