I have completed the first unit of irregular tribal cavalry for the army of Typoo Bhyka, the Tygre of Pendawar. The unit comprises three bases of three figures each. Unarmoured horsemen armed with the lance, a wicked talwaar, small dhals and a few with pistols make up the bulk of the unit. They are augmented by some officers wearing mail and helmets. The figures are from Wargames Foundry's Sikh Wars range, venerable figures certainly, but just right to fit into the project I thought. The MDF bases are, as ever, by Warbases while their standard was made by good chum George Anderson ~
The next to be underway here in GHQ will be Typoo Bhyka himself, together with his standard bearer and hornist, again Foundry figures from the Sikh Wars range. Alongside these three will be his renegade French advisor, Alphonse de Bykli, fifth son of the Comte du Merde, the runt of that litter of military incompetents! He is a Perry Miniatures mounted French colonel from their AWI range. I hope these will be finished over the coming May Bank Holiday weekend, we shall see.
You have made those rather bland cavalry really pop.
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil. Bland as a description really does them a favour!
DeleteA lovely opportunity to get plenty of colour and vibrancy into a unit.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm!
DeleteColorful and splendid, nice tribute to the Tygre of Pendawar!
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil.
DeleteThose are very nice David and the mix of clothing, armour and weapons works a treat, which is one of the jooys of this sort of army:)
ReplyDeleteThank you SteveJ, much appreciated.
DeleteThose are some fine looking cavalry David!
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Very kind sentiments Christopher, much appreciated, thanks.
DeleteNice, colourful and diverse unit 👍
ReplyDeleteKind of you go say so Matt, thanks.
DeleteHandsome Horsemen... great additions to your rapidly growing project!
ReplyDeleteThank you Gonsalvo! The strange thing is that it seems anything but rapid progress from this side of the brush...
DeleteI agree with Phil - positively weasel-like.
ReplyDeleteI see what you did there Jon!
DeleteThey look really good to me, I like the skin tone.
ReplyDeleteThank you George, much appreciated. Skin tone is Foundry Dusky Flesh mid, washed in Foundry Black wash, highlighted with original colour. Simples!
DeleteYet another splendid unit David...
ReplyDeleteAll the best. Aly
Thank you Aly, much appreciated.
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