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Shining some light into Darkest Africa
Finished Savannah Knights and army complete :)
The pride of the savannah, the knights of Kanembu. The armour is quilted cotton, stuffed with raw cotton fibre. It was intended to be impregnable for the arrows fired by the sub-Saharan tribes. African bows were not as powerful as medieval longbows so this layered padding was sufficient and a wise precaution as the arrows were often poisoned.
The earliest images of a knight from Sokoto show no pattern or decoration on the armour. I did one entirely plain to match this image. As time went on coloured materials were stitched onto the armour. The patterns of the other models were mostly based on historical images or existing museum pieces. By the 1890s there were some very complex patterns, such as we see on the leader. I’ll post a how to guide for him next.
This means the Spring Clean Challenge is complete 🙂 I started with this:
That is 121 models; 90 infantry, 30 cavalry and a camel mounted drummer.
They now look like this:
Why do I feel like someone just gave me a sock by mistake?
