Indian Mutiny / First Indian War of Independence Project

[paulr]

I'm hoping the forecast clearing late on Sunday will give me a chance to undercoat the next two battalions

[paulr]

The weather was not great today with rain but it eased a little this afternoon

While the light was not great it was at least constant so with my camera on a tripod...

1^st Madras Fusiliers 'Neill's Bluecaps'
The unit of Billy Connolly's ancestor mentioned in the video posted by Pierre the Shy




Deployed as 5 detachments with the unit commander behind

[paulr]

1^st Bengal Native Infantry of Cawnpore





One of the two wings of the battalion can deploy as detachments while the other remains formed as supports



Detachments can occupy villages or deploy in skirmish order on skirmish sabots

[paulr]

Painted & Based

83	Foot
0	Mounted
0	Models
83	Total

[paulr]

And finally for now, part of the inspiration for this project, Volume III of British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant



The portrait is of Brigadier-General Henry Havelock commander of the Allahabad Moveable Column that my HEIC troops are based on

The 78^th Highlanders in the engraving on the right actually fought in white shirtsleeves and white drill trousers

[fred.]

Great start Paul ! 


With the detachments have you effectively made each unit twice?

Nice to see the figures with the inspiration, though a shame that the near contemporary engraving is very much stylised - but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised at this from a Victorian era book.

[paulr]

For most units the detachments mean I'm adding 50% more figures, for the few units fully armed with rifled muskets it means about twice the figures

Leon kindly costed up some sabots I designed to avoid the extra figures. Even at the very reasonable price Leon came up with it was cheaper to buy the extra figures

The book doesn't have a publishing date but based on dedications in it, it was gifted to the first owner in 1893 and passed through two more generations of the same family

My son's fiancée spotted three of the four volume set in the charity shop she was managing at the time and purchased them for me

[mmcv]

Lovely start, the labels came up well too, clear but not too intrusive.

[Nick the Lemming]

Those look magnificent Paul!

[paulr]

Lovely start, the labels came up well too, clear but not too intrusive.

Thanks again for your suggestion of grey for the HEIC labels, it hadn't occurred to me and works really well

[pierre the shy]

They look very good indeed 

Lovely start, the labels came up well too, clear but not too intrusive.

Plenty more to come..... just printed out 6 more A4 pages of labels for Paul!

[paulr]

Thank you, kind Sir

[Ithoriel]

Very impressive, Paul, well done!

[Steve J]

Cracking work there Paul .

[paulr]

Next two battalions undercoated between showers, drying in the garage

Collected the labels from Pierre the Shy and labeled the bases for the current two battalions

Managed to get home before the next lot of heavy showers