ZANLA- Liberation Miniatures 20mm

I painted this group of Liberation miniatures to be ZANLA, they were less uniformed in apperarence then ZIPRA. I did some conversion work, mainly in headgear as I got way to many bare-

headed guys for Christmas.

I painted tennis shoes on some of the guys and tried to give them
a varied dress.

More ZANLA

I tried to paint a wind breaker on the guy in the middle.

I sculpted all the hats on the guys to the left.

I sculpted this big floppy denim hat on this guy...hey its the late 70s

More ZANLA

The fellow in the cut off shirt was the biggest conversion so far, hat and his upper arms were sculpted. Since ZANLA was heavily supported by the Chinse, I tried to give the other two guys Chinese type hats.

The ZANLA officer I gave a Red Chinese looking hat.

Selous Scouts- Liberation Miniatures 20mm

This site will be dedicated to many different wargame periods and scales of miniatures but for now I am going to concentrate on one of my favourite periods. Africa in the 60's, 70's and 80's, this will include Rhodesia, SW Africa, Portugese Africa, etc.

These figures are all Liberation Miniatures 20mm, from their Modern Africans range. I have modified all their headgear except for the fellow in the camo jacket. I also added beards and some packs.

note the tennis shoes on the RTO

They have been converted and painted to represent Rhodesian Selous Scouts. They used enemy clothing and weapons and the white members would grow beards to hide their caucasian features and would "black up" with black cream to hide their skin.

The black members of the Scoutswill be added later as I paint the ZANLA andZIPRA guerrillas, as they would be indistinguishable from each other.

I experimented with different ways of painting the black paint for these guys and I found that in this scale, all blacked up, you could hardly tell the races apart....so my guys have been humping through the bush and sweating alot, hence the black-ish paint.

(it woks for me)

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Big floppy hats were worn in alot of the photos I have seen, I guess this also helped to hide the face and protect the head.

This is just the first of my figs. Soon I will be posting pics of Rhodesian Light Infantry, and of course the guerillas. Also terrain to spice up the pictureand eventually battle reports.

I am really pleased with the quality of Liberation Miniatures and recomend them to anyone wanting to game modern 20mm. They have practically every modern period you could think of. They can be bought in the USA at: http://www.syrhobbswargames.com/. The service at Syr Hobbs cannot be beaten , a real treat to find such friendly and helpfull people.

Also special thanks to a site that inspired me:

http://davesminiaturewargames.blogspot.com/ , Ive been following this site for months and it is excellent. Check it out.

Last: Thankyou to my Wife, Sister and Mom for buying me 10lbs. of Lib. Minis for Christmas.