Richie
A Fixture
Hi All,
I have been sat on these a while and only just got around to letting you have a look in the box at these two figures.
The two 54mm figures depict Camel Corps soldiers from the 1885 Sudan campaign, I do not intend to go through the history of this campaign as the information on the battles is ready available.
Both figures were sculpted and painted by Jose Hidalgo owner of Beneito Miniatures. Beneito's have produced some very fine pieces and my particular favourites are the ranges depicting the Victorian soldiers.
What I like about this latest release, it has not been defined to a particular regiment, but as Camel Corps. This allows the modeller the scope to paint these figures as any of the regiment below. I know the painted versions are done as Grenadier Guards, but these have such scope to be changed to other regiments.
The other things I like about these new releases, is the possibility for a nice little vignette by combining these figures with another Beneito's former release MD-11. If you look at the Officer dismounting (bottom of the page) he could be shouting at the bugler sound the alarm and the seated figure thinking "here we go again".
http://www.miniaturasbeneito.com/en/
Guards Camel Regiment: 23 officers, 403 men; 1st, 2nd 3rd Grenadier Guards, 1st and 2nd Coldstream Guards, 1st and 2nd Scots Guard, 10o Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI).
Heavy Camel Regiment: 24 officers, 430 men; 1st and 2nd Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, 2nd, 4th, 5th Dragoon Guards, 1st, 2nd (Scots Greys) Dragoons, 5th and 16th Lancers.
Light Camel Regiment: 21 officers, 387 men; 3rd 4th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 21st Hussars.
Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment: 26 officers, 480 men; 1st South Staffordshire (38th), 1st Royal West Kents (50th), 1st Black Watch Highlanders (42nd), 1st Gordon Highlanders (75th), 2nd Essex (56th), 1st Sussex (35th), 2nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (46th), 3rd King's Royal Rifie Corps, Rifle Brigade, Somerset Light Infantry, Connaught Rangers, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Both figures are cast in white metal and the Camel Corps bugler MV-127 is cast in 10 parts. The second figure of the seated Camel Corps soldier MV-128 is cast in 7 parts. The castings are very nice and dry fitting of the parts is also very good. They come well protected in a sturdy cardboard box, the smaller parts sealed in a zip lock bags and all parts are clammed between two pieces of protective foam. You will also get the usual Beneito quality outer carton box art.
The parts.
The box art pictures.
Some historical artworks.
This is the previous Beneito Camel Corps release that would make a great vignette with the two new releases.
In Conclusion.
Another lovely Victorian release from Jose with lots of scope for the model maker and you get a well presented, sculpted and cast kit from Beneito's. Well done
.
cheers
Richie
I have been sat on these a while and only just got around to letting you have a look in the box at these two figures.
The two 54mm figures depict Camel Corps soldiers from the 1885 Sudan campaign, I do not intend to go through the history of this campaign as the information on the battles is ready available.
Both figures were sculpted and painted by Jose Hidalgo owner of Beneito Miniatures. Beneito's have produced some very fine pieces and my particular favourites are the ranges depicting the Victorian soldiers.
What I like about this latest release, it has not been defined to a particular regiment, but as Camel Corps. This allows the modeller the scope to paint these figures as any of the regiment below. I know the painted versions are done as Grenadier Guards, but these have such scope to be changed to other regiments.
The other things I like about these new releases, is the possibility for a nice little vignette by combining these figures with another Beneito's former release MD-11. If you look at the Officer dismounting (bottom of the page) he could be shouting at the bugler sound the alarm and the seated figure thinking "here we go again".
http://www.miniaturasbeneito.com/en/
Guards Camel Regiment: 23 officers, 403 men; 1st, 2nd 3rd Grenadier Guards, 1st and 2nd Coldstream Guards, 1st and 2nd Scots Guard, 10o Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI).
Heavy Camel Regiment: 24 officers, 430 men; 1st and 2nd Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, 2nd, 4th, 5th Dragoon Guards, 1st, 2nd (Scots Greys) Dragoons, 5th and 16th Lancers.
Light Camel Regiment: 21 officers, 387 men; 3rd 4th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 21st Hussars.
Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment: 26 officers, 480 men; 1st South Staffordshire (38th), 1st Royal West Kents (50th), 1st Black Watch Highlanders (42nd), 1st Gordon Highlanders (75th), 2nd Essex (56th), 1st Sussex (35th), 2nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (46th), 3rd King's Royal Rifie Corps, Rifle Brigade, Somerset Light Infantry, Connaught Rangers, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Both figures are cast in white metal and the Camel Corps bugler MV-127 is cast in 10 parts. The second figure of the seated Camel Corps soldier MV-128 is cast in 7 parts. The castings are very nice and dry fitting of the parts is also very good. They come well protected in a sturdy cardboard box, the smaller parts sealed in a zip lock bags and all parts are clammed between two pieces of protective foam. You will also get the usual Beneito quality outer carton box art.
The parts.
The box art pictures.
Some historical artworks.
This is the previous Beneito Camel Corps release that would make a great vignette with the two new releases.
In Conclusion.
Another lovely Victorian release from Jose with lots of scope for the model maker and you get a well presented, sculpted and cast kit from Beneito's. Well done
.cheers
Richie
