Empress NWF Highlanders

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

I painted these as the Gordons, just for Ignatieff   .

 















I went a bit mad on the bases, they look as if they are fighting through a garden center 

Paul

[juergen c. olk]

Great looking highlanders,especilly like the bandaged arm.

[moonshado]

Second the like for that bandaged arm. Those Scots have painted up very nice.
Being my usual pedantic self and having so few colour references to British troops in India between the war can I ask about the colour of the hose tops? Is that  grey blue based on a reference or was it artistic licence?(It looks good, either way). Do you know of any references to the colour of hose tops worn by the different regiments? The only reference I can get hold of and it is very sparse is Mike Chappell's volume "Tropical Uniforms" in his The British Soldier in the 20th Century

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

I originally painted them Khaki based on an Osprey WW1 illustration of a London Highlander and then noticed that in the film The Drum they are actually painted dark blue. As the film is an inspiration for the range it seemed only right to copy the film so I changed them.

I do not usually take 'Hollywood' as a good source for correct detail but Korda's films, The Drum and The Three Feathers are very accurate as he used the locals, including the army who were actually doing the job for real, to provide the majority of the cast.

[Hu Rhu]

Excellent figures, beautifully painted.

[Atheling]

Excellent figures, beautifully painted.

Indeed they are 

Darrell.

[Genialjim]

Awsome looking paint job.

[Marine0846]

Super looking figures.
It is getting harder not to buy some of these figures.
They are sooo... nice.
I don't need another period.

[Keith]

Cor - lush!

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Thanks guys. All nice comments appreciated 

Paul

[moonshado]

Nice reasoning for the blue hose tops. Shows how long ago it was that I watched The Drum has I remembered it as a Black and White film.
Still wish there was someone out there,who was even more of an Anorak than me, who had put together a little booklet on the hose tops of the British Army in the 20th century.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

The Drum is certainly in colour

[moonshado]

Definitely need to rewatch The Drum, I'm fairly certain my memory of it is all mixed up with the Kenneth Moore film - North West Frontier, which until I just googled it I also erroneously remembered as being in black and white. My dad was very reluctant to spend hard cash buying a new colour TV when we had a perfectly good black and white tv to watch( I'm the same way about HD TVs).

[Atheling]

My dad was very reluctant to spend hard cash buying a new colour TV when we had a perfectly good black and white tv to watch

Mine too- it took us years to persuade him to switch!! 

Darrell.