Above is a pic of Lt. Colonel James Galbraith, Regimental Colour in hand, alongside Bobbie the regimental dog and some of the other "Last Eleven" survivors of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment, making their last stand in one of the walled gardens just South of Khig village, a few miles West of the Afghan town of Maiwand.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Possible native leader for General Pettygree...

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...


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...

BRITISH ARTILLERY CREW

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.