Skeets  | 08 Jul 2009 7:53 a.m. PST |
Can anyone help me locate any figures for the 1814 period in India in 25mm other than Redoubt? Also need help in locating British for the 1790's. |
| Connard Sage | 08 Jul 2009 8:01 a.m. PST |
I may be proved wrong, but I think the revolution was over by 1814 |
| Skeets | 08 Jul 2009 8:04 a.m. PST |
Trying to cover both periods in one. |
| Connard Sage | 08 Jul 2009 8:06 a.m. PST |
The uniforms changed. A lot. |
| Doc Ord | 08 Jul 2009 8:51 a.m. PST |
Old Glory make British in hats for 1801,Egypt that could be used but they are not very good figures. You could use British in the Waterloo shako & paint the shako white as was intended for India & hot climes. I'm not sure when or if the Waterloo shako made it to India. The light dragoons had brown shakos for India. For sepoys & sowars there was a company known as FalconUK that had some nice ones and I believe they were picked up by Quartermaster in the US. He has been at Historicon in the past.For 1790s British you could use AWI figures in hats, roundabouts & overalls from Perry. |
 Der Alte Fritz | 08 Jul 2009 9:23 a.m. PST |
Dixon has the British circa Egypt in 25mm wearing the early shako. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 08 Jul 2009 10:07 a.m. PST |
Doc Ord, Did the white Belgic shako ever make it out to India, as I thought it was replaced so quickly that it was only issued for the 1813-15 period? I do recall reading that a Hanoverian unit got white ones, so were they perhaps just issued locally (ie Europe) to overcome shortages of kit amongst Britain's allies? Skeets, I would have thought the round hat (similar to that worn by the Royal Marines) would be standard wear in India post-1799/1800. The bicorne was worn before that, sometimes uncocked, based on two paintings of the 36th Foot in the National Army Museum. |
| Doc Ord | 08 Jul 2009 11:28 a.m. PST |
I don't know if the white belgic shako made it to India or not. I seem to remember a plate of a unit in the Dutch East Indies with it but am away from my books. |
| The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour | 08 Jul 2009 3:24 p.m. PST |
If you are looking for British troops in the 1790's then really you don't want shakos. Round hats and bicornes. I don't know of anyone making these in 28mm at this time apart from Eagle who do 1790s infantry in bicorne. Eureka having a fast growing range for the revolutionary wars, French and Austrians so far and they are without doubt the finest figures made for the period. Nic has talked about doing Brits for the Caribbean and possibly Europe and there is a 100 club type list to indicate demand for future products. If you can wait then you should add your voice to those asking for Brits. Failing that you might want to think about using Marines for the late '90s, 1798 onwards. These would also work well for the 1814 period. Foundry and a number of others do Royal Marines.
For the early 1790s conversions of Perry AWI figures in roundabout might be the closest match although the collars will be wrong.
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| Supercilius Maximus | 09 Jul 2009 3:51 a.m. PST |
From memory, one of the Osprey MAAs on Wellington's Infantry has an officer or soldier in the West Indies c.1795(ish?) in a high-crowned round hat, sometimes referred to as a flower-pot hat. |
| vonLoudon | 17 Sep 2009 4:44 a.m. PST |
Dixon did some early British. Maybe not 1790 early, but in their Nappy in Egypt range which for most of us is early enough. |
builds a cutter and a corsair, both in 1/1200 scale.