Last Christmas Workbench, Sikh Wars mainly.

 So I managed a fair bit of painting over Christmas and I thought I would take the opportunity to share the last of them, gives me a bit of a head start for new units when we can eventually game again.

I have had a reasonable focuse on the Sikh irregular cavalry which is great fun with all the bright colours. A bunch have already flown off to be based in York but plenty more now when the basing department has completed those.

Whilst the Perry's did a fair range of nice horses when they did this collection I have so many that adding some variety in is really useful for breaking them up a little, I will share where I have got the different ones from and you can decide whether you think they work.

This first Sikh Officer is on tone of the original horses, I particularly like how this has come out with the range of different colours.

This armoured lancer may end up as standra bearer, I have mounted him on one of the Games Workshop Riders of Rohan horses I picked up, ever so slightly bigger than the old Foundry these are 28mm but take the riders reasonably well. I like this one.

This chap is riding a Foundry Polish Pancerni horse, which again I think works surprisingly well, the horse has a slung shield so I used an armoured horseman without a shield.

This lancer is riding one of the original horses, the pink and blue set the grey horse off well.

The trumpeter is riding another Foundry Polish horse, Not a Pancerni one more and Officers horse.

This light cavalryman is on one of the original horses, however I am short of shields so this guys has a Perry plastic one from the Afghan set.

These General Staff figures are from the Foundry Crimean range and the Perrys Carlist War range respectively, there is a size difference so I will add a little greestuff to the Foundry bases, I will turn these guys into a high command vignette for the EIC forces.

I have touched on my plans for the Bahawalpur forces in an earlier post, this gives you an idea how two of the units plan to look, I will add different shades of the main colours to create some variety but these are the basic schemes. The French Grey unit will be Foundry Baluchis and the Sand coloured one mainly Empress.

The officer here is an Empress figure, the rest Foundry Baluchi's

Again the command figure is Empress and the matchlock man probably the only Foundry figure I will add to this unit.

Finally the snow and Ice inspired me to a minor side trip to 1812, I have a mountain of stuff to do for my retreat from Moscow project so all good that I can get a couple squeezed in now and again.

Painting may slow down a little now with the return to work but hopefully the figures completed take me closer to a nice big Sikh Wars game when we can play agin.

Take good care.