New Indian Mutiny unit just painted.

[guitarheroandy]

Very nice painting!!!!!

[sepoy1857]

VERY nice! See he's the one that's been buying them up on Ebay... ;-D

[Tannenberg]

Can I say, a beautiful and stunning bit of work on those figures....extremely pleasing to the eye 

[Admiral Benbow]

Great unit and very nice painting! I think this just changes my mind about selling my Foundry Indian Mutiny stuff. True, they are quite small and won't probably mix up with the new Mutineer figures, but they can be painted up to some fine gems, as you showed us ...
 

[former user]

very neat

just a question from me, since I see them on the miniatures - since when were pith helmets standard issued in the british army? I've tried to research this, and the earliest time was the Abysinian campaign...

is that true?

[Plynkes]

Depends what you mean by "standard issued." I'm not sure what that means. You see the air-pipe style of sun helmet at least a decade earlier than Abyssinia. It was quite common headgear during the Indian Mutiny (as seen in this thread - though seemingly not as common as the Havelock).

[former user]

thx

standard issued as opposed to privately bought - mainly by officers
of course there could be examples where it was only regimental non regulation issue

[Plynkes]

Airpipe helmets were mass-produced at Cawnpore. Various units were issued them en-masse, such as the Rifle Brigade for example.


This type of helmet also seems to have been common to all ranks in China in 1860.

[former user]

thx very much

some time ago I had a dispute with a friend about an alternate history setting, and it was not clear if we could use british troops in colonial outfit as intervention force in ACW

[Trooper]

Thanks for all the kind comments here. I was asked to post some Mutiny pictures of the other elements of our collection. Here are some shots taken at our last battle, The relief of Rogan Josh.















Hope you enjoy them.

[Plynkes]

Indeed, enjoying them very much. Great scenes there, Trooper. Nothing quite like massed ranks like that. Alas, I paint too slowly to ever play games of that sort. 



former user, one must bear in mind that the airpipe helmet of the 1850s/60s, is not the same as the later ones we are familiar with from the Zulu War, etc. But of course, one can ignore such niceties in an alt-history game if one wishes. 

[former user]

I am just a little overwhelmed by the pictures....  man

thx Plynkes, I don't have the slightest idea of the difference...

[Admiral Benbow]

Holy cow, Trooper, that's indeed what I call a "large collection". Fantastic!
 

[DFlynSqrl]

  Wow 

[Westfalia Chris]

Am I allowed to say I like the two elephant models best, or would that be disrespectful to the whole HUGE rest of this awesome collection?