The 1st Native Infantry Regiment...

 ...otherwise the Pendawar Grenadiers. As my Tales from Pendawar project is an imagination project I felt I needed a Native Infantry Regiment which stood out from the rank and file Sepoy regiments in each Brigade. The result is the 1st Native Infantry Regiment, the Pendawar Grenadiers. They are formed from the Perry Miniatures Bombay Grenadiers packs in their British in India section of the Napoleonic range. There is one more Native Infantry Regiment left to paint and the infantry arm of the Army of the Pendawar Presidency will be completed for now - though I did buy some Highland Infantry in trousers on my recent visit to Foundry to add at a later date. Here are the Grenadiers drawn up for inspection ~

I've also been working on the 20th Light Dragoons for the army using Trent Miniatures British Dragoons with the heads exchanged for a passable interpretation of the short lived tropical service helmet to contrast them with the 'Pendawar Peacocks' featured in an earlier blog entry.

If you are wondering what is left in the Lead Pimple now I can let you into a secret: one Sepoy battalion; 12 Sepoy cavalry; the Pendawar Horse Artillery; 9 Tribal Horsemen; the Voluntaires de Bykli and that's it from the original plan. It should mean the project will provide a decent game on the GHQ tabletop battlefield and a nice alternative to Indian Mutiny games. I still hope it will be finished by the height of summer...