SAGA: Crescent and Crosss: The Crusades Part 2

Not slacking on building and painting. Just not posting very much.I have purposely built and painted by Muslim forces so that they can be mixed and matched to form different factions from the Crescent and Cross book. The buildings are also starting to look middle-eastern (I think)Anyhow, here goes:

Mutatawwi'a and light horsemen emerging from the dunes

Generic Muslim Infantry with swords

Camel Riders and Warlord, Archers and Tuareg-styled infantry. 

I particularly like the look of the fez-wearing hadji figures

(Muslim warriors who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca) 

I painted the camel riders and command group, as well as some spearmen as Tuareg warriors

  

                                                                 from Crusader (Chris De Burg):

A messenger came, blood on his feet and a wound in his chest,

"The Christians are coming!" he said, "I have seen their cross in the west,"

In a rage Saladin struck him down with his knife,

And he said "I know that this man lies,

They quarrel too much, the Christians could never unite! 

I am invincible, I am the king,

I am invincible, and I will win..." 

Closer they came, the army of Richard the Lionheart,

Marching by day and night, with soldiers from every part,

And when the Crusaders came over the mountain and they saw Jerusalem,

They fell to their knees and prayed for her release

They started the battle at dawn, taking the city by storm,

With horsemen and bowmen and engines of war,

They broke through the city walls,

The Heathens were flying and screaming and dying,

And the Christian swords were strong,

And Saladin ran when he heard their victory song; 

"We are invincible, God is the king,

We are invincible, and we will win!" 

"What do I do now?" said the wise man to the fool,

"I have spent my whole life searching, to find the Golden Rule,

Though centuries have disappeared, the memory still remains,

Of those enemies together, could it be that way again?"

Then the fool said "Oh you wise men, you really make me laugh,

With your talk of vast persuasion and searching through the past,

There is only greed and evil in the men who fight today,

The song of the Crusader has long since gone away...

...Jerusalem is lost,Jerusalem is lost,Jerusalem is lost, 

Jerusalem...

SAGA: Crescent and Cross. And now for some buildings...

SAGA Crescent and Cross. Buildings taking shape

Been doing some scratch-building of  arab style buildings for Saga. Progressing slowly but getting there:

Quality Street octagonal chocolate box and a toddler's toy:

 on the way to becoming a mosque

Arab hut

City wall defenses having taken a hit from a rock lobber

Scary military images I came across while researching things on the interwebs

Some unusual military images I came across while researching on the interwebs thingy

On my latest tangent I came across some rather unusual (and sometimes startling images when typing in search terms related to my searches for recent posts.

First off I was looking at Zeltbahnen, the German shelters used in WW2, which led me off on a tangent to the SADF Bivvy, and the cadet forces. I was thinking how, in some senses, it was not really unlike the Hitlerjungend in philosophy, a feeding conduit for the army, and them OMW!

These pictures from the late 50s appear:

 Good grief! Where did the inspiration for the uniforms come from? The DAK or Hitlerjungend? 

By the time I got to high school, and had to wear the cadet uniform to school every Wednesday, it was quite different. We wore brown berets. It appears this was the uniform for most of the 1950s through the early 60s. 

I remember my father remarking how they wore "caps"  when he was in the school cadet shooting team in the mid to late 50s, but I never realised it was a feldmutze peaked cap. I had envisaged a cricket-style English school boy cap!

These other disturbing images came up when I googled cadet:

From the US:

From the UK: