Sikh and Shiny.

 No Not a music hall act ..
.(I say I say Mr Shiny. My Wife's gone to the West Indies.
Jamaica Mr Sikh?
No She went of here own accord!.....)

 No it is not that all all - for which you may be thankful !

 While all you other chaps are painting away in isolation I'm managing to get a few items done while sending out gear to the chaps who are ... painting in isolation .

 So it goes.

 I am managing to add a few units to the various collections.

TLC for Old Lead Dudes 3

Minifigs 30mm British Napoleonic artillery of considerable age- about 1972 I think. 

Another view of the same group.

  The British Napoleonic Foot artillery are very aged Minifigs 30mm  pulled out from a very mixed lot of  aged 30mm stuff I picked up last year . Mostly guns limbers and horses of which this is the first fruits of those I can refurbish. There is also another British  gun and crew and a French crew without a gun and bizarrely a couple of Russian - I think- limbers and a British limber with horses and  riders- in the wrong uniform.

 All will go into the  "Shinyloo" collection which is now well over 300 finished. figures and still growing.

Sikh Wars

Nice Command figures- shame about the marching dudes. Fine paintwork from Jim though. 

A couple of additions to the Sikh Wars project which again has a long way to go. The Foundry Sepoys were a happy re-discovery. My good friend James Main painted them for me about 15 years ago - or perhaps longer- before the OG Sikh Wars range came out anyway.  They then languished in both his loft and mine until we both decided to  get into the Sikh Wars when "as if by magic" they re-emerged covered in dust and dead spiders. . Jim's excellent  paintwork survived admirably after a good bit of a clean up and basing. With the exception of the rather nice Command figures the unit lacks movement  for me and the marching figures especially  look a little stunted.  Size wise they blend in pretty well with OG so no worries there Have to get hold of some of those Studio Miniatures to see how they fit in. Not that I care really It would be nice to have at least one unit from all the Makers of Sikh Wars stuff in addition to the OG collection.   Once flagged they will still be the 25th Bengal Native Infantry ready to try conclusions with the Khalsa.

This unit when finished should be 7 bases- 28figures strong. 

 The Firing line is the first part of a unit for the Khalsa depicting non-Sikh troops of which there were a goodly number. The finished unit will have French tricolour flags.

Officer of Scinde Horse. 

The single mounted figure is an officer of the Scinde Horse in full dress- which they probably didn't wear on campaign but he is pretty and is the 6th figure in the OG British High Command set. 

So still ots more to do. Oh and a book to finish as well.