Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to my followers and visitors. I hope you’ve had a relaxing few days and got all the toys you wished for.

I managed to get a fair bit done this year:

– King’s Royal Rifle Corps
– Black Watch
– Mahdist Krupp battery
– Red rub
– Black rub
– 9th Bengal Cavalry
– cavalry brigade command
– Drummer Jones
– a large hill in three sections

With these I am drawing my Sudan project to a close for the moment. In future I’ll add mounted infantry to the cavalry brigade, an Indian infantry detachment, and then on to some Egyptians. Then there is the armed train project …

So … what’s next? Obviously I must get some gaming in now I have a pretty substantial collection, and post photos of the action. My new project takes me back to the fifteenth century and the dynastic struggle between cousins known today as the Wars of the Roses. Watch this space.

Brigadier-General Stewart, the 19th Hussars and 9th Bengal Cavalry.

9th Bengal Cavalry and Beja reinforcements

Today I finished basing the Indian cavalry, and very smart they look too. 

I have 16 Hadendowa to finish basing, the last of the plastic figures. There’s a handful of metal command types in boxes, so I am undecided whether to establish a fifth rub or expand the existing force, probably by adding two figures to each band. The latter would be the expedient, only requiring two crouching figures and six rifle-armed figures in addition to the 16.

Top-to bottom: One can never have enough Beja; Brigadier-General Herbert Stewart and his Brigade Major, Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor; Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Palmer and 9th Bengal Cavalry.