This lot have been on my painting desk for far too long, but then so has everything else that is there. It is part of the price you pay for being in the business. Of course they could have been on some painters desk for 6 month or a year or even longer(as I know some chaps seem to wait for ever for 'their painter' to complete stuff) . Not putting up with it. So these days I paint most of my own stuff myself. Slow I may be but at least I know what is happening.
So here we have a unit to be added to the Khalsa. This one a little different, being a purbeah' unit - that is not Silks specifically one largely made up of hindu sepoys many of whom were deserters from the EIC service.
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| French trained Purbeah Infantry of the Sikh army 1845. |
The figures are all Old Glory 28mm from the Sikh Wars range specifically pack ASW-16. I have painted these as purbeahs rather than in the Gurkha uniform which was the same style but in green with red facings.
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| Close up of the command group. Those flowery thingies on the flag were a bit of a faff to paint. |
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| Yes the pack is a firing line or skirmish line - your choice. |
The flag is the French style 'tricolour' - actually with 4 bands - as shown in Gurinder Singh Mann's excellent book 'The Rise of the Sikh Soldier' whose short essay on Khalsa flags renders most of the various paper productions of Khalsa flags for this war fit only for the bin. Of those I have well over half will be heading for that receptacle the rest will get a repaint.
Right back to work- soldiers to pack up and words to write .
Very nice looking unit, always nice to Sikh war stuff, you don't see enough in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteAgreed - one reason I am building up forces for both sides
Deletea great paintjob and a special unit - I like it:-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Uwe.
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