Here's a couple of pics of the old Ral Partha Pathan Chieftain which may be the figure you're looking for, Bill. If that's the case, drop me a line here or via PM on TMP, and I should be able to help you out...
Monday, January 24, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Hyderabad Contingent pictures
Well, now there is a THIRD -- and 2 versions of it, one full figure, the other close-up. Here is a very recent addition to my ever-so-slight but still existent "Hyderabad Contingent" pictures collection -- a beautiful color print of a "Camel Gunner" from the Nizam's 3rd Regiment of Cavalry. The book it's in showed up today and when I opened it up this picture was on the first page I saw, so I felt I needed to post it here, for Don Sebastian's sake. Don, if you do visit and enjoy the view, do me a favor and please leave a comment on this post if you can.
Only two, from the 1840's but I'm posting both -- one from W. Y. Carman's INDIAN ARMY UNIFORMS UNDER THE BRITISH FROM THE 18TH CENTURY TO 1947 - CAVALRY (1961) and one from ARTILLERY, ENGINEERS AND INFANTRY (1969) -- for Don Sebastian from TMP, who is looking for info on the Nazim of Hyderabad's troops during the Indian Mutiny:
Monday, January 3, 2011
CONVERSIONS IX - Army Hospital Corps & Artillery
Following up on the pics I recently posted of PAINTED conversions, here are the last few conversion jobs themselves: some Army Hospital Corps and some artillery crewmen.
The Hospital Corpsmen started out as WWI IN THE EAST "Character Pack One" from WOODBINE DESIGN, sold by GRIPPING BEAST...
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The injured Tommy on the stretcher was perfect as is, but I swapped out the chaplain in peaked cap head for a Glengarry-wearing Empress Miniatures head from their Zulu War Accessories Range...
I also took a Wargames Foundry standing Afghan Regular Artillery crewman, removed his head and replaced it with an Empress head in foreign service helmet...
Next, I took the headless body left over from a Foundry Indian mountain gunner whose head I'd used for General Roberts' Sikh orderly, removed the ramrod from his hand, replaced it with a spare WATER-BOTTLE, again from the Empress Miniatures Zulu War Accessories range, and used one of the WOUNDED HEADS from Woodbine Design's WWI IN THE EAST Heads & Accessory Sprues...
Last up are some Wargames Foundry Boer War Artillery Crew, who are sculpted to serve breech-loading guns...
I converted a few of the figures in explicitly "breech-loading" poses, so they could serve older, muzzle-loading canon, like those that were crewed by the improvised "Smoothbore Battery" crewed by a combination of RHA officers and senior NCOs and infantrymen from the 66th Regiment at Maiwand.
I used the sponge/ramrods and buckets provided with Foundry Afghan gun crews, as well as their Crimean War, Indian Mutiny and ACW artillery pieces.
