Briggsy
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On with the next project, this is the penultimate figure from my 6 figure build just before I joined PF. this one is like the 9th Lancer a bit of a tribute to Sid Horton, in that it is my version of another of his superb figures. An officer of the 10th Hussars in Afghanistan in 1884. So another fella dressed primarily in drab, not real khaki but what came before.
The Indian Mutiny led to a great deal.of improvisation including the clothing of many new regiments raised to counter the mutineers, a very large part of the Bengal Army in the main. White cloth was fairly plentiful but not very practical on Campaign, though British units in India were equipped with white hot weather uniforms. These were primarily for garrison life, this was all made into 'drab' or khaki, actually a local word for the summer dust. Many various shade were obtained as at regimental level the white was dyed into a drab brown that could vary from what we might call khaki to beige and even grey depending how it was dyed. Methods varied from soaking the cloth in tea, staining it with mud or soaking it in rivers. A right motley bunch they must have looked.
The 10th had tunics made at regimental level for the third Afghan War, no doubt to maintain some form of uniformity and smartness, in fact the officers went on Campaign dressed this way with full dress pouch belt and pouch, though they dyed the foreign service helmet, an updated version of the old India Stove Pipe Helmet, they retained the gilt spike and chin chains and of course the sabretache, though only the undress version.
Anyway enough back ground on with the figure. Built as my previous efforts were with Magicsculpt on a stripped down 1/35th scale plastic figure sporting a Hornet Head. His sword is a reworked Historex item and the sabretache is made from plastic card brass wire and paper.
This is the fella in the raw before even priming. The enlarged picture shows detail of the full dress pouch belt, it's not perfect by any means but took rather a long time to create and I have no intention of redoing it, it either works as is or the project fails.
Cheers Simon
The Indian Mutiny led to a great deal.of improvisation including the clothing of many new regiments raised to counter the mutineers, a very large part of the Bengal Army in the main. White cloth was fairly plentiful but not very practical on Campaign, though British units in India were equipped with white hot weather uniforms. These were primarily for garrison life, this was all made into 'drab' or khaki, actually a local word for the summer dust. Many various shade were obtained as at regimental level the white was dyed into a drab brown that could vary from what we might call khaki to beige and even grey depending how it was dyed. Methods varied from soaking the cloth in tea, staining it with mud or soaking it in rivers. A right motley bunch they must have looked.
The 10th had tunics made at regimental level for the third Afghan War, no doubt to maintain some form of uniformity and smartness, in fact the officers went on Campaign dressed this way with full dress pouch belt and pouch, though they dyed the foreign service helmet, an updated version of the old India Stove Pipe Helmet, they retained the gilt spike and chin chains and of course the sabretache, though only the undress version.
Anyway enough back ground on with the figure. Built as my previous efforts were with Magicsculpt on a stripped down 1/35th scale plastic figure sporting a Hornet Head. His sword is a reworked Historex item and the sabretache is made from plastic card brass wire and paper.
This is the fella in the raw before even priming. The enlarged picture shows detail of the full dress pouch belt, it's not perfect by any means but took rather a long time to create and I have no intention of redoing it, it either works as is or the project fails.
Cheers Simon
but if you enjoy it,why not,gonna look beautiful
