Author Topic: Perry Pathan Medley - new painting, P4 (Read 7319 times)

Mad Guru · « **Reply #45 on:** September 16, 2020, 11:41:39 PM »

Amazing work, as ever, Captain Blood! I have been holding off on buying the new Perry plastic Tribesmen because I'm not a big fan of plastic figures, plus I already have a couple hundred metal Tribesmen who look pretty good... but I predict seeing your work on this thread will overwhelm my feeble resistance. Also, though I have a homemade Malalai standard-bearer figure converted from a Wargames Foundry Ancient Roman Woman Civilian, the completist in me wants the new Perry-sculpted version.

RE: your converted Guides Infantryman -- in my non-expert but informed opinion, I think his turban with Shamla (the bit of cloth sticking up from the middle) and no Kullah (pointy cap in the middle) will allow him to pass as an Afridi member of the Guides. There were definitely Afridis in the regiment, though I don't know if they had a discrete company. I think his turban could also pass for the style generally worn by Dogras, and there were definitely Dogras in the Guides as well, but Dogras generally wear mustaches, not beards, so probably not so useful with the Afghan heads, which I assume are all bearded. As others have already said, I'm excited to keep following your progress!

Captain Blood · « **Reply #46 on:** September 17, 2020, 01:30:25 PM »

Thanks Mad Guru. You are the ruling king of the North West Frontier, so I will take your word for it on the Afridis and Dogras

Several of the heads in the Perry plastic set are moustachioed only, so may serve for Dogras.

My late father (d. 2002) was a British officer in the Indian army in WW2, and was stationed in India and Africa for most of the war, (and before and after it) apart from participating in Operation Ironclad, the Allied invasion of Vichy Madagascar.
He always said the Pathans in his regiment were the best soldiers - brave and (interestingly, given their reputation) very disciplined. One of his favourite stories however, was that they couldn't handle innoculations at all. He found it comical and unfathomable that not a small number of these big, fierce, bearded fighting men, fearless in battle, would keel over in a dead faint when queuing for the hypodermic.
Just a cultural thing I suppose.

Quote from: NurgleHH on September 16, 2020, 09:46:37 PM

Your kitbashing is a great Inspiration. Hope you will do some terrain and make the great pictures you made for the Painters league. It is fun to watch it.

Thanks Dirk.
I think I may eventually redo all the 'red earth' bases on my NWF collection to match my sand-coloured desert boards, and then make up a couple of extra boards with more irrigated areas. Much of Afghanistan is mountain and desert, but it also has fields and gardens, so I need to find a way to represent that mix.

Hammers · « **Reply #47 on:** September 17, 2020, 02:34:21 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on September 16, 2020, 12:57:23 PM

Cheers Colin

I reckon you could. There are a couple of different furry beehive-hatted heads included in the Afghan Tribesmen set, which I think is what Afghan regulars wore? One on the main frame, and one on the command frame. Mind you, that only gives 6 in each box in total, so you'd need to buy a lot of boxes if you were going to make up a force of them.

I think soldiers from Herat in western Afghanistan, regulars as well as ir-, were known for their turkoman-styled fur hats.

Atheling · « **Reply #48 on:** September 17, 2020, 05:04:59 PM »

I'm looking forward with some excitement to see the full fruits when these excellent conversions are painted Richard

Especially Flashy- who wouldn't be

Mad Guru · « **Reply #49 on:** September 18, 2020, 06:10:34 AM »

Captain Blood,

Cool to hear that the Perry plastic Tribesmen include some heads with mustaches instead of beards.

Great story about your father. My father (1924-2013) spent WWII as a private, then an NCO in the US Army Signal Corps. His first overseas post was British India, where he spent almost a year, before flying "over the hump" into China, and then to the Pacific Islands for the rest of the war. His company built and operated high-tech radios and their equipment was guarded by Indian Army troops, who left quite an impression on him.

Codsticker · « **Reply #50 on:** September 30, 2020, 05:38:39 AM »

Quote from: Hammers on September 14, 2020, 07:31:09 AM

Is there a British WWI sprue for Enfield Mk. I's and other?

Not yet, but I was thinking for Wirelizard's pulp project they may be acceptable.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #51 on:** April 10, 2021, 02:34:18 PM »

Well, six months on, having been a wee bit distracted by assorted other endeavours, I've finally managed to paint the second lot of Perry Pathans that have been glowering at me from the shelf...

Four more fierce Afridis or Waziris or somesuch Khyber troublemakers...

Harry Flashman in native disguise, and a loyal Pathan infantryman. These two are mash-ups from the Perry NW Frontier Tribesmen and the British infantry box...