The Rani of Pendawar

 I contributed a Quick Fire article to Wargames Illustrated earlier in the year featuring my ongoing Cold War Gone Hot project. Each such contribution gets the author a Giants in Miniature figure, and so for mine I chose the Lakshmi Bai figure as I thought it would suit games set in the subcontinent, of which we have three or four options here in GHQ . 

Trawling around different companies' web sites I noticed Empress Miniatures had a mounted version, along with a second  figure, in their Indian Mutiny range. Further browsing of the range sourced a likely group of 4 figures to attend my foot version and so both packs were duly acquired at the recent Partizan show. I've been painting these five foot figures since then, interspersed amongst my 15mm Cold War Gone Hot Russian infantry for variety, and here is the completed base ~

The Rani of Pendawar , or indeed of Bhyklabad, and her body guards will feature as a command base in games set in my fictional Indian settings of Pendawar or of Bhyklabad, maybe at a squeeze even in Rhanzlistan should we venture there again at some future date! The flag of course is by my talented chum George Anderson and the base from the ever reliable Warbases, who else? Meanwhile, it's back to the little people, otherwise known as the Plastic Soldier Company's Cold War Russian Infantry...