Bashi Bazouks

[Major Weenie]

Continue to plug along on some Perry Brothers Bashi-Bazouks.  Almost finished, so here's a photo.
1.) The new camera is still 'relatively new.'  Photos are getting better, but still not quite the quality achieved with the old (dead) camera.
2.) Figures are not quite finished.
3.) Originally I wanted them to be shabby and disreputable, and thought that the example figures up on the Perry site were too neat and clean for my tastes.  However, I appear to have produced something neater, cleaner, and more colorful than originally intended.
4.) Anyone know anything about standards for Bashi-Bazouks?  Up on the Perry site they're carrying what looks like an all green, triangular flag.  Easy enougn to make, but is it what should be used?
5.) Oh, and here's the photo

[chicklewis]

They look really great, Major Weenie !!   

I like the 'colorful and clean' appearance.  My internalized view of these guys is that, while disreputable, they probably dressed in a fashion which they considered stylish.   

thanks for posting them. 

Chick

[Major Weenie]

Bimbashi Lewis,
So the photos up on the Perry site have some of the figures with striped pantaloons.  Only the pantaloons mind, not the ones in the 'Greek-style skirts.'  I thought that this might be nice for some leader types.  Well, after much work - not as much as paiting a kilt, but much work - I finished one.  It looks less like a Bashi-Bazouk, and more like a Louisiana Tiger Zouave.
You'll only be getting one of those with the striped pantaloons.
Regards,
Major Weenie.

[Plynkes]

In paintings they almost always look immaculate. I don't know if that reflects their true-life appearance, though.









I quite like the idea of them being clean, posing, preened peacocks. They do have something of a reputation for not being great fighters. Perhaps it was because they didn't want to get their fancy togs all dirty and blood-stained. 

I really like what you have done with yours.

[Vonkluge]

Hi there fellow Bengali's we are getting quite a presence here...! I've been coming here as a lurker for a year or so, finialy joined up back a bit. Steve G is on too! so that makes what 5-6 members here? I was posting to I Starship thread I have going in the "Other" section and then just happend to bounce through here to find you two!

Major Roller!

[Major Weenie]

Oh by jove yes!  Bengalis (apparently) all around,
1.) Was this a photo of Major Roller's space bugs that weren't quite painted a few weeks ago?
2.) Distressing info from the paintings.  Looks to me as if the slippers/sandals are worn without socks/hose.  I painted them with white socks, on the theory that the gap between foot gear and leggings would thus be more pronounced. This seems to work wonders at making Chinese slippers look more Chinese in 25mm, and it looks nice on the  Perry figures, but now should I repaint?  Hmm
3.) And no info on the mysterious green standard?  The painted Bashi-Bazouks are waving one up on the Perry web site, but that's the only research info I have on the subject.

[bluewillow]

a very spiffy job, well done!

[Vonkluge]

By Jove, yes, quite right! Those are the filthy little "bugger's" fresh out o' there cacoons swooping down on some terrified Mobile Infantry!

Your Servant,

William Karl Witthans, AKA Major Roller 1st LA Bengalis, Prince of Moldavia, Defender of the true Faith, Holder of the order of the Black Rose, and Washroom attendent 4th classe PS 143.

[Major Weenie]

Well,
I finished some more Bashi Bazouks.  This time I based them for my "Colonial Rules That Will Never Be Finished."  The bases are 60mm by 30mm, and I figure that Bashi Bazouks would be in a loose enough order to require only 2 figures per base.
And here are the photos.



And a bit more of a close up

[jpalmer374]

What is Bashi Bazouks all about guys? anyway, I guess where to find cheap wholesale China Slippers guys?


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[Hammers]

Just like hussars, zouaves and others it's a military fashion and irregular troop type. I think it was derrived from greek irregular troops fighting the Ottomans (or was it the other way around...?)

[traveller]

They were real bad-asses. In contrast to the posing pictures I guess this would be more their style...

[former user]

a lot of international propaganda was made with their alleged war crimes in Bulgaria, that was used to start the Russo-Turkish war 1876 - without the western powers intervening against Russian Pan-slavistic imperialism.
Consequently, there was a lot of pictorial coverage in the media, like the painting above, showing their atrocities.

which mainly focused on the raping of nuns, to satisfy the voyeurism of the readers.

independantly of what actually happened, imagine that as the story about Iraquis stabbing babys in the hospital, told by the nurse who was in fact the ambassador's relative

history repeats

there is this russian movie  "turkish gambit", that shows a lot of them, and it gives a very authentic feeling