New Perry Cape War British

[RedRowan]

Some new British for the Cape Wars are now available on the Perry's website.

Steve

[Arthur]

Better with pics you can see  :







http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php

[RedRowan]

Not sure what happened, they appeared fine when I posted them. Edited my first post to remove the problem links.

Steve

[Firescale Whack]

These look excellent! Besides cape wars, could these chaps be used for anywhere else aswell?

[olyreed]

Those are very nice, consider them bought

[sjwalker51]

The accompanying notes mention they're also suitable for New Zealand and first Afghan War. Don't know about other campaigns of the 1840-50s, such as the Opium Wars?

[carlos marighela]

With a little paint and or green stuff, they would be good for Scinde, scene of the world's undisputed best pun.*






*Peccavi

[italwars]

please and advice from experst on British Army..that headgear is it the same usede by British officers and also men during the Zulu War ecc?....in this case , i would maybe buy those Perry figures as i already own some Xhosas,...and sacrifice one head (cutting it and replacing with a bare bandaged one) and use it on a AZW British officer or a driver for more variety

[Mad Guru]

Italwars,

Not EXACTLY the same peaked caps, but close enough that if you only wanted to use a couple of them, I think you could make them work very well.  They should probably have their height sanded down a bit so they're not as high, but they might be able to pass as 1870s-1880s "forage caps" as is.  If you did sand or otherwise trim them down, you might want to slice off the little "pom-pom"/button on the top, and then glue it back on in the same spot -- but I freely admit that's a lot of effort that only obsessive/compulsive button-counter types (of which I am one!) would fret over!

[Kommando_J]

I'd hold off as the Perrys are planning on doing AZW troops at some point.

[italwars]

Italwars,

obsessive/compulsive button-counter types (of which I am one!) would fret over!

thanks for your kind and accurate explanation Mad Guru...your definition "obsessive button-counter type" is fantastic  ...i try to think about myself that i do not belong, as concern our hobby, to this category that touch the "nerd" definiton...but in fact the evidence suggest that i fully deserve the definition....
thanks again

[Mad Guru]

My pleasure, glad to be of assistance!

Apologies for slightly derailing the original topic of this thread, but I just realized Empress already make at least 2 officers wearing the cap I think you're looking for...

On the far right in this first pic:



...and second from left here: