OK, so I’ve finally decided on a project that will expand the Scruby 30mm Colonial range. It isn’t big, as I will be doing all the sculpting, etc.

One of my war game projects is 30mm Colonials – Sudan, for historical games, and Mafrica, for non-historical games. Scruby had just a few Fuzzy figures in the range… Well I’m tired of painting the same two basic figures, so I’ve decided to update these a bit. I may stick with the standards of Sword and Spear, but I will branch out and make other changes.

The first thing I have in mind is to get rid of the Scruby shield and make something a bit more accurate – it will be a separate piece too. Perhaps I’ll do up a couple of different shields so we can have some variety.

The next will be to add a few different costumes. What I have in mind are: trousers, jibah and perhaps trousers and waistcoat. Of course we will keep the original kilt or loincloth that Scruby created.

From there, the only other thing I have in mind is an open handed version of the figures and an updating of the spear (give it a proper head). The sword could do with an update too, but I’m not too worried about that, the spear is just plain wrong, so it needs an update.

Oh, and I guess that I should update the camel rider too – but I may need to make this one form scratch, as I don’t have any dollies that will work…

No time frame on these, but I’ve got the bug now, so maybe I’ll have something to show before too long!