I finished the final unit I needed for the Indian army brigade that was was involved in the Sudan. The unit is the 17th Bengal Infantry the Loyal Poorbeah. Its made up from Perry metal figures and has them with covered turbans. It is 60 figures in close order, two separate officers and a mounted officer. Nice simple khaki colour scheme.
The entire brigade consists of the 15th, 17th and 28th Bengal supported by the Queens Own Madras Sappers and Miners.
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The full brigade in square watching our for the Fizzy Wuzzies.
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Last weekend also saw an attendance at Vapnartak the York show - the first of this years. I will be at Hammerhead in early March with the Sudan game coming up too.
As the lead pile has been significantly reduced I did I have a bit of stock up. I picked up more terrain items, some hills which just need a bit of PVA and sand adding to match my existing ones. A ready made set to make up a wadi , and some more wall bits. I stocked up a few figures for the last Camel Corp regiment (Mounted Infantry), some Bashi Bazouks and figures suitable for crewing a paddle steamer. I picked up a few books as well.
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| the Wadi sections about 7 feet altogether |
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| Vac form hills , and ready made ones |
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| Figures and some tokens to use as markers |
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| Yes that does mean a future Zulu project! |
A good day out , meeting up with various friends through the day. Next weekend sees a full days gaming with the Sudan collection in use for the battle of El Teb
Lots of gaming loveliness!
ReplyDeletecheers Gordon
DeleteExcellent figures as ever Dave. how come when I want terrain items I can never find them but yet others seem to just fall over them?
ReplyDeleteand I even went looking for something to make a wadi too!
DeleteGood double themed post! Sudan figures look terrific en masse.
ReplyDeletecheers
DeleteThat photo of the Brigade in Square looks great! Got to definitely say I like the look of all those Indian units, and will report in that my Black Powder reading is coming along nicely (just read the Command rules and I really like how command and movement works) - I'm thinking about bringing a paper pad and pen, to write out unit orders for the turn before working down the list and rolling dice. That way I can't chop and change unit orders depending on how well the unit before reacted.
ReplyDeletecheers Roy. Me too enjoying reading through
DeleteCracking unit especially the square!
ReplyDeletethanks Fran
DeleteAwesome mass effect and splendid post!
ReplyDeletecheers
DeleteI could sit and look at the picture of the square for ages Dave, a thing of beauty. Just a little bit excited about the prospect of a Zulu project! :)
ReplyDeletecheers Michael... the various imperial brigade shots will be long shortly too..
DeleteI will so need a bigger man cave with Zulus as well ... but its going to be fun!
Good to meet, zulus! I daren't ask how many.
ReplyDeleteCollecting for the Zulu armies needn't be too many.
ReplyDeleteIts probably easiest to collect for 1816, when Shaka inherited around 300 men loosely formed into so-called regiments. The other 200 youths being used for menial tasks and so not assigned to units.
Its far more interesting to do the Zulu army at 1:1 scale, and under the leadership of Shaka Zulu, than the Anglo-Zulu War ... No? Oh, its just me, then.
Impressive brigade.....very nicely presented🙂
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt
DeleteExcellent troops and a nice haul from York Dave!
ReplyDeletecheer Mr P
DeleteWhat a wonderful looking unit Dave. The Indians do always seem to put up a sturdy fight in my games that's for sure. Love the wadi and the Vac hills btw. Look forward to seeing the report of El Teb.
ReplyDeletethanks Carlo
DeleteThose wadi sections look very effective. Excellent stuff.
ReplyDeletecheers, yes they were just what I was looking for.
DeleteThe troops look excellent Dave!
ReplyDeleteCheers Ray
DeleteThere's something quite wonderful about a square of that size and in 28mm scale. A thing of beauty Dave!
ReplyDeleteindeed there is - and i can now do four of em!
Deletecheers matey