From American Civil War to the Indian Mutiny - A Perry Question

[Ahistorian]

I have been looking at the Perry plastic ACW kits as the basis of a Portuguese force for Death in the Dark Continent. I would quite like to use the left over ACW/Confederate Infantry and Cavalry models for skirmish games in the Indian Mutiny or other mid-Victorian adventures in the subcontinent.

To my untrained eye, it looks like simple paint conversions and a bit of greenstuff and hacking on the kepis to turn them into forage caps or havelocked kepis would be sufficient to transform them into the EIC's & HM's Thin Red Line. Am I terribly, terribly wrong?

[fastolfrus]

Didn't someone do a magazine article (probably WI and possibly one of the Perry brothers that did it) a couple of years ago that did a series of (mostly paint) conversions of plastic ACW bodies?

I vaguely recall something like you're suggesting in there.

So I'd say yes.

[Ahistorian]

Excellent! Does anyone remember which issue that article was in? 45 minutes of googling has proved fruitless.

[AlyMorrison]

Hi there....

I can't remember what issue the conversions were in, but I was actually responsible for some of them...
The mutiny figure was a very easy convertion ,a green stuff hat and I think I reshaped the water bottle to make it more British, the rest was done with paint.
As the British in India wore tunics and shell jackets you should be okay, I would change the trousers the are tucked into socks so that they are untucked or turned up.

I hope that has been of some help...

All the best. Aly

[Ahistorian]

That's grand, thank you!