As previously reported I've finished my Sikhs for my Anglo Sikh Wars project, so I thought I'd put them all out and see what the massed forces of the Khalsa look like on the Shedquarters table.
For this occasion I broke out my SLR, which I haven't used for quite a few months, alongside my camera phone. I prefer framing the shots with the SLR, but it can be a bit of a faff as it is bulky. Still, it does take nice pictures.
Here's the full army. To the extreme left are the regular cavalry, in the centre the regular infantry, with artillery in front. Next come some units of irregular foot, with camel guns in front, and then a load of Gorchurra horse on the right.
Buildings are a mixture of homemade and...damn. Can't remember the manufacturer. Still, they're normally doing duty with my Sudanese campaign armies. I think they'll do for India. At least for now.
Similar shot done with the phone. It seems to have dulled the colours.
That's 13 battalion sized infantry units, 11 cavalry regiments, six field guns and six camel guns.
Similar shot from the other end. The figures on the round bases are commanders. I got a pack of FK15 "Indian Princes" from whoever had the range between QRF and Little Corporal, along with some Akali fanatics. I didn't get all the Indian Prince poses, alas, missing the one with the turban.
More of a close up of the Khalsa infantry and guns. These are all Irregular Miniatures. Except for the little group of Akali who are FK15, of which more later. The turban/facings/flag combos aren't any particular regiments. Our information on these is annoyingly incomplete. As I shall be using them across both wars and in historical and non-historical scenarios I decided in the end not to get too picky and just mix the colours up so I can tell them apart. I have no intention of painting a lot more regiments just so that I have all of them. You might just be able to see that most of them have shields on their backs, and some of the officers are carrying them too. I had these 3D printed for me. This makes it easier to tell them apart from the British/HEIC who also wear red coats.
These are the Akali religious zealots, being deployed as a General's bodyguard. These are FK15s. Irregular only do one pose, which is a figure with a throwing quoit. The poses hear aren't brilliant either, but they have some variety. The blue is possibly a little too dark, although that could just be the photo.
These are the Sikh regular European style cavalry, all Irregular Miniatures. The front two units are lancers, rear left are cuirassiers, rear right are dragoons. I intended to give each unit a standard, especially as the cuirassiers used a French tricolour, but the castings are quite "tight". That's good as it means swords don't break off, but I couldn't see how I'd get a knife in and do the surgery to add a standard pole without the danger of wrecking the figure completely.
Here they are from the other angle.
Four units of irregular foot, from Irregular Miniatures. As you can see these all have been given the printed shields. My guess is that they would mostly be in all white, but I added colours to spice them up a bit.
Here's my Gorchurra. These are a mix of Irregular Persians, and FK15. The front unit are Irregular, the two behind are FK15, then of the rear two ranks the two on the left are FK15, those on the right Irregular. I was originally going to go with all Irregular, but I was unhappy with the number of mounted bowmen I ended up with and couldn't see how to give at least some of them lances. I therefore ordered replacements from The Little Corporal. The delivery was very slow, as he'd outsourced his production, but I see now that he has got this in house at last, so hopefully this has improved.
Pleased with this low level shot, as I managed to get the focus on the cavalry, not the camels.
A close up of one of the generals with his bodyguard. I found the general - which is FK15 - less well defined than the Akali and Gorchurra figures.
The other General pose that I got. He's wearing full lobster style armour.
I didn't take a good photo of the camels in this shoot, but you can find some here, along with pictures of the field guns close up.
And finally a "drone" shot, so to speak.
Alas these will have to go back in the box for a month or two whilst I paint up the HEIC and British forces. I've got eight battalions of Bengal native infantry to do, and a load of both native and European cavalry as well.
Hopefully it won't take me another 12 months to finish them off.
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