Friday, 15 August 2025

Commonwealth Indian Army batch 2

 More Indians

On a bit of a roll this week another 10 figures finished.

Richard Crawley reminded me yesterday that he had reviewed Ian`s figures way back in The Journal when I was editor, he pointed out at the time that the biggest disapointment was that these figures come mixed - Punjabi, Sikhs, Mahrat - The Indian Army was built along tribal and religious lines and these men would not be mixed with a single formation.

A bit more organised this time in my painting.

Two prone bren teams, left is EWM, right is by Shellhole Scenics


All Shellhole: RTO with Raventhorpe head, gun commander with map, 2 inch mortar No2
Shellhole British officer and RTO (same figure as above)
These will join my British/Australians, I`ll swap the officer out - I hate my forces to look cloned
Shellhole Bren converted to a Boys AT rifle kindly supplied by Paul @ EWM, the rifleman is also EWM
Comparison pic to show the conversion

All ten together





2 comments:

  1. Looking good - despite the issues regarding headware. Perhaps pick your favourite headgear and, for figures wearing other, do head swops. I’d be tempted to give a fair few steel helmets.
    Cheers,
    Geoff

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    1. Cheers Geoff. Yes, that would be best, but I may just say f**k-it and use them as is - see how inspired I am to swap 30+ heads.....

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