Northwest Fronter goodness

[aecurtis]

I've been accumulating the Foundry Afghan regulars from eBay lately.  The best reference for them is the olf Foundry Colonial catalogue.  There are a couple of shots of some of them on Angus Konstam's Edinburgh Wargames site:

http://www.edinburghwargames.com/Journal04.htm

Scroll down to the Back of Beyond scenario and look for the guard artillerists in classical helmets and guard infantry in skirts.

They are, not surprisingly, an excellent match for the Foundry Afghan tribesmen and British/Indian troops.  And yes, they are meant for the Second Afghan War, but most can be used in both earlier and later conflicts, from 1863 to 1888.

Allen

[commissarmoody]

Thanks Aecurtis, I am thinking I will defantly be checking out ebay myself now for some foundry afghan troops.

And yes the Secand Afgan war was more of what I was trying for anways, by buget can only handle war at a time. Besides they should be good up tell about the turn of the centry anways.

[commissarmoody]

Askari has just updated its conlonal Russian range. I am thinking that my guids on a deep recon mission might just stumbla apoine a troop of them some time in the futer ^_^
Also they say that they have Turkes and turkoman in the works so I imagion that my Afganit rang will be flushed out quite nicely with that group.

[Driscoles]

Hi,

I must say the Old Glory Pathans are nice figures. They definately belong to the better sculpted figures from old Glory and they have some beautiful sculpts among them. Like the kneeling Pathan firing from behind a rock. Put them beside a Foundry you will see there is not much of a difference.  Iam talking of these figures :

http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CNP%2D02

Cheers
Björn

[commissarmoody]

I already have them on my to order list 

[carlos marighela]

BTW if you still want to do the 1839-42 Anglo Afghan War then fear not by buying all those tribesmen you will pretty much have your army. They weren't uniformed for that period. Actually it was noted that as late as the third Afghan War (1919) it was common practice for Afghan soldiers to revert to local costume, with just their arms and equipment and maybe a small round woolen cap marking them as soldiery.

[aecurtis]

How do you tell a "regular" Afghan from an "irregular" Afghan?

The irregular Afghans are in squatting poses.

Sorry...

Allen

[commissarmoody]

damn, thats funny. I can attest to that actual. A few of my buddys got disantary when we were over there
had to carry the poor guys around and hook IVs up to them.

[Rhoderic]

Excuse the slight thread necromancy, just thought I'd point out that Britannia Miniatures and Bicorne Miniatures also do some Pathans (about a dozen figures each). Might be useful knowledge to those of you who want as many poses as possible. I can't vouch for the quality of either, although the Britannia ones do look quite nice judging from the scant pictorial evidence on their website. Bicorne has no pictures of their NWF figures, I'm afraid.

[thejammedgatling]

Foundry's Afghan tribesmen are by the Perrys, and there are only about 20 different figures but they are beauties. 

unfortunately they're currently withdrawn from the web, wanted some of them 

Not sure about that..I know all the NW Frontier line is withdrawn but when I asked for the lists to be sent to me by foundry it did not include the Pathans. Reason being I think that they are all still available in their India collection under hill tribesme, etc Have a look:
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/INDIA/5/index.asp
Are these the Perries stuff?

I second the use of the Baluchis and Zanzibaris (at least some of them) for the period. Some great looking figures and heaps just got sold on ebay last night..whic one of you fellows outbid me?? GRR

[commissarmoody]

Well now have a whole mess of Foundry NWF, and boer wars on my painting desk right now,. Just ask for the codes and they will send them to you.

[Gluteus Maximus]

http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/INDIA/5/index.asp
Are these the Perries stuff?

They are 

Thanks for the link, I hadn't thought to find them available. I have a dozen or so and need a few more, so this is great news.

[aecurtis]

Let me save you a step.  Here's the list of the "withdrawn' NW Frontier packs that bernard at Foundry sent me a few months ago:

NORTHWEST FRONTIER LIST

NW1/1  HIGHLAND INFANTRY COMMAND
NW1/2  HIGHLAND INFANTRY
NW1/3  HIGHLAND INFANTRY MARCHING
NW1/4  SIKH AND GUIDE CHARACTERS
NW1/5  SIKH INFANTRY
NW1/6  GUN AND CREW
NW1/7  BENGAL LANCER COMMAND
NW1/8  BENGAL LANCERS
NW2/1  GUIDE INFANTRY
NW2/2  GUIDE CAVALRY COMMAND
NW2/3  GUIDE CAVALRY
NW2/4  GURKAS COMMAND
NW2/5  GURKAS
NW2/6  AFGAN REGULAR COMMAND
NW2/7  AFGAN REGULARS
NW2/8  AFGAN TURCOMAN REGULARS
NW3/1  AFGAN HIGHLAND BRIGADE
NW3/2  AFGAN ARTILLER CREW
NW3/3  AFGAN GUARD CAVALRY
NW3/4  AFGAN HERATIS CAVALRY
NW3/5  AFGAN CAVALRY IN BEEGHIVE HAT
NW3/6  AFGAN CAVALRY

Yiou can order from this list, and will have to pay an extra dollar or pound per pack.

The Pathans, as suggested by thejammedgatling, are currently available as Hill Tribesmen.

I wouldn't use Beluchis as Pathans, myself, unless I wanted to get the different contingents to squabbling!  But they are nice figures, and no, incredibly, I didn't bid on those last eBay lots...

Allen

[commissarmoody]

well Aecurtis you beat me to it. ti attempt to make up for being so lax here is the Boer war list for any one wanting to do none highland inf

DA18/1      BRITISH INFANTRY COMMAND AND CHARACTERS
DA18/2      BRITISH INFANTRY FIRING LINE
DA18/3      BRITISH INFANTRY ADVANCING
DA18/4      HIGHLAND INFANTRY COMMAND AND CHARACTERS (NW1/1)
DA18/5      HIGHLAND INFANTRY (NW1/2)
DA18/6      BRITISH MACHINE GUNS AND CREWS
DA18/7      SOUTH AFRICANS/BOERS
DA18/8      MOUNTED AFRICANS/BOERS
DA19/1      IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
DA19/2      MOUNTED BRITISH INFANTRY
DA19/3      AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
DA19/4      BRITISH ARTILLERY CREW
DA19/6      BRITISH CASUALTIES
DA19/7      BOER WAR LIMBER (double priced pack)
BSDA1      BOER WAR WAGON

[aecurtis]

Bueno!  I hadn't asked for that list yet.  Thanks,

Allen